Fierce Healthcare
FEBRUARY 2, 2024
Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago has been working through a “cybersecurity matter” since Wednesday that has led the organization to take its phone, email and Epic MyChart systems offline, accor | Illinois' largest pediatric care provider said it took down its systems preemptively on Wednesday, leading to disruptions across its hospital and other locations.
Health Care Dive
FEBRUARY 2, 2024
The health insurer sees Medicare Advantage as an area for future growth, despite selling the division for $3.7 billion earlier this week. Cigna’s CEO called the sale a “win-win” on a call with investors Friday.
This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.
Fierce Healthcare
FEBRUARY 2, 2024
The pandemic acted as a catalyst, propelling virtual care to the forefront of healthcare delivery. | The pandemic acted as a catalyst, propelling virtual care to the forefront of healthcare delivery.
Health Care Dive
FEBRUARY 2, 2024
The Renton, Washington-based nonprofit health system will refund millions to settle allegations it skirted charity care obligations between 2018 and 2023.
Advertiser: HealthCar
Facing layoffs in your organization? Support your team members' career transition with Career Star Accelerator Bootcamp: Custom Resume & LinkedIn Revamp + 6 Weeks of Career Coaching. Our certified resume writers will create job search-winning resumes and LinkedIn profiles while they work with a career coach to learn unique strategies to stand out, attract the right employers, automate their job search, and land their dream job.
Fierce Healthcare
FEBRUARY 2, 2024
Optum Perks is rolling out a new telehealth solution that aims to make it easier for patients to secure their prescriptions at a low cost. | Optum Perks is rolling out a new telehealth solution that aims to make it easier for patients to secure their prescriptions at a low cost.
Health Care Dive
FEBRUARY 2, 2024
Programs could begin some medication treatment via telehealth under the rule, which the agency argues will remove transportation barriers and expand access to care.
Health Care Quality Digest brings together the best content for healthcare quality professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
Health Care Dive
FEBRUARY 2, 2024
The drugstore retailer said it still has “significant cost savings and growth goals to deliver” as it confirmed further downsizing of its workforce.
Fierce Healthcare
FEBRUARY 2, 2024
Renton, Washington-based Providence has cut a deal to refund or erase $157.7 million in medical care payments following allegations and a lawsuit from its home state’s attorney general that the lar | The nonprofit health system's deal with the Washington State Attorney General over allegations it billed patients who may have qualified for charity care is "the largest resolution of its kind in the country.
Home Health Care
FEBRUARY 2, 2024
On Wednesday, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released its 2025 proposed payment updates for the Medicare Advantage (MA) and Medicare Part D Prescription Drug Programs. These updates to the payment policies come at a time when MA enrollment continues to skyrocket. Under the proposal, MA plans would see a 3.70% — or over $16 billion — increase, on average, in MA payments from the government from 2024 to 2025.
Fierce Healthcare
FEBRUARY 2, 2024
While promising opportunities are arising for healthcare chief financial officers, there may also be formidable challenges ahead. | While promising opportunities are arising for healthcare CFOs, there may also be formidable challenges ahead. This insight comes from a BDO Healthcare CFO outlook report, which reveals that approximately 80% of healthcare CFOs expect improved profitability in 2024 after experiencing a similar upturn in 2023.
Advertisement
Complete and accurate provider data is essential for health organizations to operate effectively. A better understanding of your provider network helps to understand patients and consumers, identify gaps in care, and make the best possible decisions for your businesses. A modern provider data management solution should power a complete and accurate view of each of your providers, make this data easily accessible across functional groups, and be flexible and agile enough to scale. with your needs
Home Health Care
FEBRUARY 2, 2024
This article is a part of your HHCN+ Membership Health care’s share of global private-equity (PE) deal count peaked at 13.7% in 2020. Three years later, that number fell to 10.8% — its lowest level since 2015. Compared to the bustling activity of 2021, home-based care dealmaking was mostly sluggish in 2023 and has followed that same trend. The slow year was largely due to PE firms’ reluctance to re-engage in the market.
Fierce Healthcare
FEBRUARY 2, 2024
The Cigna Group beat the Street on both profit and revenue in the fourth quarter, where it reported $1 billion in earnings. | The Cigna Group beat the Street on both profit and revenue in the fourth quarter, where it reported $1 billion in earnings.
Home Health Care
FEBRUARY 2, 2024
Coming out of COVID-19, multiple home care franchise systems are really beginning to rev their growth engines again. That will likely be a theme in the broader home care industry this year. One, in particular, is FirstLight Home Care. Kristen Duell, the VP of experience and innovation at FirstLight, said the company is primed for “extreme growth” in the near-term future and ready to “hit the ground running.
Fierce Healthcare
FEBRUARY 2, 2024
Artificial intelligence can help identify easy to miss patients who might be good candidates for a palliative or hospice care referral, a recent pilot at Mass General Brigham (MGB) revealed. | The pilot at Newton-Wellesley Hospital relied on an AI-driven tool from Radial. Over the course of the pilot, 9% of 1,522 MSSP ACO patients were recommended for a consult by the tool and 40 got inpatient palliative consults with the potential to generate notable savings for the ACO.
Advertiser: HealthCar
Once a week, culture & leadership expert Galen Emanuele gives free, actionable EQ training in 5 minutes or less. Subscribe to the #CultureDrop and access free resources & content.
The Rand Blog
FEBRUARY 2, 2024
Far too many survivors of military sexual trauma are unable to access the generous benefits available to those injured by enemies overseas. Survivors are already far less likely to qualify for the full range of benefits and services available to those injured in combat, and the United States is doing nothing to rectify this injustice, allowing further inequities to fester.
Fierce Healthcare
FEBRUARY 2, 2024
Talkspace, an online therapy company, has teamed up with Bicycle Health, a virtual opioid use disorder (OUD) treatment provider, to expand access to care for their patient populations through refer | For Talkspace patients, the partnership will increase access to opioid use disorder specialty care, including medications. For Bicycle Health patients, the partnership will increase access to therapists specializing in areas outside substance use disorder.
Health IT Analytics
FEBRUARY 2, 2024
The DETree framework combines Alzheimer’s progression modeling with individual prediction to forecast how a patient’s disease may develop over time.
Bill Of Health
FEBRUARY 2, 2024
By Eiko I. Fried and Michiel van Elk Much optimism has been expressed about the potential of psychedelics to treat mental health problems such as suicidal ideation, depression, and post-traumatic stress disorder. This optimism goes hand in hand with a notable increase in research publications, investments from pharmaceutical companies, patent filings, media exposure, as well as shifts in political and legislative landscapes.
Advertisement
This guide highlights key areas that your sepsis detection platform should address to minimize the impact of this leading, entirely preventable cause of in-hospital deaths, as well as how to increase compliance by 20% in 30 days. Download to learn more!
Healthcare ECONOMIST
FEBRUARY 2, 2024
No cervical cancer cases in HPV-vaccinated women. Neuroimaging and mental health care. Syphillis cases on the rise. Dengue Fever vaccine soon to arrive? School spending : “Spending on basic infrastructure (such as HVAC) or on the removal of pollutants raises test scores but not house prices; conversely, spending on athletic facilities raises house prices but not test scores.
The Rand Blog
FEBRUARY 2, 2024
If Turkey steps back from its pursuit of the Typhoon, it would join India, South Korea, Finland, the UAE, and Switzerland on the list of countries to decline acquisition of the four-nation collaborative platform jointly exported by the United Kingdom, Germany, Italy, and Spain. The United Kingdom and Germany have the most to gain, or lose, from the Typhoon's success.
CDC
FEBRUARY 2, 2024
Respiratory infections such as influenza (flu), COVID-19, and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) continue to spread within communities and healthcare settings. In a recent webinar with CDC’s Project Firstline and the American Medical Association (AMA), CDC Director Dr. Mandy Cohen discussed the impacts of the current respiratory virus season, the importance of vaccination, and the importance of effective risk communication to help built trust with the public.
Etactics
FEBRUARY 2, 2024
In 2023, a healthcare organization entered a $866,339.25 settlement agreement with the Office of Inspector General (OIG). The Chinese-American Planning Council Home Attendant Program faced serious allegations. Accusations claiming that the organization employed an individual excluded from the New York Medicaid program. Ignoring the OIG exclusion program cost this business greatly.
Speaker: Paul Weald, Contact Center Innovator
Learn how to streamline productivity and efficiency across your organization with machine learning and artificial intelligence! No matter what industry you're in - healthcare, customer service, sales, and more - it’s easier than you think to reduce wait times, monitor sentiment, and provide enhanced self-service options for all of your users. This means that you can achieve a more consistent and engaging customer experience while reducing sources of friction.
HIT Consultant
FEBRUARY 2, 2024
Xaia, Cedars-Sinai’s eXtended-Reality Artificially Intelligent Ally, is now available on Apple Vision Pro. Image by Cedars-Sinai. What You Should Know: – Cedars-Sinai clinicians have teamed up with AI experts to develop an AI-powered VR therapy app, Xaia, that leverages the power of Apple Vision Pro to offer an immersive, accessible approach to mental health support. – By harnessing the power of AI and virtual reality, the app offers a convenient, engaging, and effective way fo
Expert insights. Personalized for you.
313 
Let's personalize your content