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Lawmakers to reintroduce federal nurse staffing ratio bill

Health Care Dive

The bill mirrors California’s nurse staffing law which took effect in 2004 and outlines exactly how many patients a nurse in specific hospital units can care for at one time.

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Uber Health rolls out same-day prescription delivery with plans to ship healthy food, OTC meds

Fierce Healthcare

Uber Health rolls out same-day prescription delivery with plans to ship healthy food, OTC meds hlandi Thu, 03/30/2023 - 12:54

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UnitedHealthcare cuts back prior authorization requirements

Health Care Dive

Provider groups applauded the move, but said they’d need to see how the requirements are rolled back before passing judgment on whether the step would ease documentation burdens on physicians.

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Wellth reels in $20M to scale up its 'behavioral economics' approach to tackle chronic conditions

Fierce Healthcare

Wellth reels in $20M to scale up its 'behavioral economics' approach to tackle chronic conditions hlandi Thu, 03/30/2023 - 07:10

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How to Battle Layoffs: The Career Star Accelerator Bootcamp

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.

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Fair Health finds 76% drop in telehealth use from 2020 to 2021

Health Care Dive

Although telehealth use declined overall compared to the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, virtual visits still comprised the highest percentage of medical claim lines in 2021.

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Capital Rx exec to senators: Here's how to fix the PBM industry

Fierce Healthcare

Capital Rx exec to senators: Here's how to fix the PBM industry fdiamond Thu, 03/30/2023 - 15:36

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Hint Health, powering cash-only providers, launches new management platform

Fierce Healthcare

Hint Health, powering cash-only providers, launches new management platform agliadkovskaya Thu, 03/30/2023 - 13:42

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CVS-Oak Street deal clears regulatory hurdle as antitrust waiting period expires

Health Care Dive

Oak Street also announced on Thursday it’s canceling its annual board meeting following the CVS deal, which is expected to close in the first half of the year. Oak Street stockholders will meet on April 28 to vote on the sale.

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ViVE 2023: Tripledemic, mental health crisis highlight unequal investment in children's health

Fierce Healthcare

ViVE 2023: Tripledemic, mental health crisis highlight unequal investment in children's health dmuoio Thu, 03/30/2023 - 17:44

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How telemedicine increases access to care for the underserved

Healthcare It News

Howard Rubin will offer more detail during the HIMSS23 session "Increasing Access to Care for Rural and Underserved Communities." It is scheduled for Tuesday, April 18 at 3 p.m. – 4 p.m. CT at the South Building, Level 1, room S105A.

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5 Essentials for Healthcare CIOs: A Provider Data Management Checklist

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

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Michigan's Covenant Healthcare System, physicians pay $69M to settle whistleblower's False Claims Act allegations

Fierce Healthcare

Michigan's Covenant Healthcare System, physicians pay $69M to settle whistleblower's False Claims Act allegations dmuoio Thu, 03/30/2023 - 14:14

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FDA approves Narcan for over-the-counter use

Health Care Dive

It’s the first time a naloxone-based therapy for opioid overdoses has been cleared for use without a prescription, potentially helping to improve access.

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Judge blocks feds from enforcing ACA's preventive care coverage mandates

Fierce Healthcare

Judge blocks feds from enforcing ACA's preventive care coverage mandates pminemyer Thu, 03/30/2023 - 13:49

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Medical Billing Services Are the Only Part of Revenue Cycle Management

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Medical Billing Services: Claim Submission and Follow-up According to the HBMA, the process of submitting and following up on claims with health insurance companies to get paid or receive money is a medical billing process. Without the timely submission of clean claims, you will not be successful. It doesn’t matter how many patients you see or how many services you render.

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Level up Culture & EQ | Sign up for the #CultureDrop

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.

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Chutes & Ladders—Talkiatry lands two execs to expand clinical excellence, VBC strategy

Fierce Healthcare

Chutes & Ladders—Talkiatry lands two execs to expand clinical excellence, VBC strategy agliadkovskaya Thu, 03/30/2023 - 12:56

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After Call With CMS, Home Health Providers Left Feeling Unheard, Disheartened

Home Health Care

This article is a part of your HHCN+ Membership During the last week of March, hundreds of stakeholders vied on behalf of home-based care in Washington, D.C., either physically or through Zoom. Personal home care provider and advocate voices did so with an excitement for the future, fresh off the high of the president mentioning multiple times in a month.

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ViVE 2023: How Blues plans came together to tackle rising drug costs

Fierce Healthcare

ViVE 2023: How Blues plans came together to tackle rising drug costs pminemyer Thu, 03/30/2023 - 19:52

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Hybrid Healthcare and The New Normal: Biggest Adjustments for Healthcare Organizations

HIT Consultant

Eric Bacon, President at AMD Global Telemedicine, Inc The adoption of virtual health has increased dramatically since March 2020, with 150 million telehealth claims in less than two years. Like other revolutionary innovations throughout history, healthcare innovation is necessitated by time — and unmet needs. So many struggled to create virtual care solutions during the pandemic, and many technology companies jumped into the telehealth space because of the unmet needs of patients.

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A Guide to Improved Sepsis Detection & Compliance: 6 Areas You Should Address

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!

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Strengthened Enhanced Enforcement for Infection Control Deficiencies and Quality Improvement Activities in Nursing Homes

Briggs Healthcare

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare CMS just posted QSO-23-10-NH (4 pages) with the same title as this blog. Please review this Memorandum with your team and share it will your colleagues. The entire Memorandum is important so be sure to review it in its entirety, including these items on the last 3 pages: Revised Enhanced Enforcement for Infection Control Deficiencies Enforcement Cases Quality Improvement Organization Support The information in this Memorandum

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The Importance of Employee Recognition Programs in the Healthcare Industry

HIT Consultant

Mike Szczesny, Owner and VP of EDCO Awards & Specialties Hiring and retaining top-quality candidates in the healthcare sector has been a significant challenge. Aside from the risk of working around patients infected with diseases, as we saw during the COVID-19 outbreak, they are also faced with several difficulties. The healthcare industry needs effective and efficient retention strategies because of a talent shortage, high turnover rates, and heavy competition for top candidates.

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Why U.S. Military Interventions Fail and What to Do About It

The Rand Blog

There will always be situations in which military intervention is the best or only option for the United States. But policymakers must also recognize that in many cases, the best response to a crisis or potential threat is to take no military action at all and rely instead on diplomacy or sanctions—or simply learn to live with an elevated threat.

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Phenomix Sciences Launches Saliva Test to Predict Obesity Phenotype

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Phenomix Sciences (Phenomix), a precision medicine biotechnology company that brings data intelligence to the treatment of obesity, announces today the launch of its first therapy selection test, the My Phenome Hungry Gut test. – This is a first-of-its-kind obesity test and will determine if a patient’s phenotype is Hungry Gut (Satiety) or feeling hungry shortly after eating a meal.

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The New Tech Experience: Innovation, Optimization, and Collaboration

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.

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How Primary Care Startup Patina Locked Down Partnerships With 4 Big Health Plans

Home Health Care

With only a couple years under its belt since its launch, Patina Health – a Philadelphia, Pennsylvania-based home-focused primary care medical practice – has secured partnerships with multiple major health plans. Patina’s work with payers combines care coordination and primary care services for seniors. For a company that has dubbed itself the “easy button for primary care,” the aim is to make care more accessible.

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Verizon Inks $2.5B, 12-Year Contract with HHS to Modernize Its Network

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Today, Verizon announced it was awarded a 12-year contract worth $2.5 billion to help the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) modernize its network – Verizon is driving $700 million in cost savings for HHS through the Enterprise Infrastructure Solutions (EIS) contract. This contract covers all 10 of the agency’s operating components and its Office of Secretary. – The EIS contract vehicle accelerates HHS’s transition to advanced networking techn

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Behind AccentCare’s New Workforce Transparency Initiative

Home Health Care

AccentCare has a new Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) initiative. Behind it is a belief that home-based care providers should be as transparent as possible with current and future caregivers about the makeup of the company’s workforce. “When you share your workforce data transparently, you’re owning where you’re at in the space — not only as far as workforce compensation, but also as a company that really embraces people’s uniqueness,” Rafael Fantauzzi, AccentCare’s chief

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How feasible is it to include broader value elements into value assessment?

Healthcare ECONOMIST

That is one of the key questions from the IVI”s recent Value Blueprint paper titled “ Prioritized Attributes to Better Define and Measure Innovation in Health Technology Assessment “ The expert roundtable convened by IVI examines not only whether there is a consensus about how to implement the value element (“method readiness”) but also if their is robust data to estimate this value element in practice (“data quality”).

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Strategies to Deal with Collaborative Healthcare Communication

Speaker: Dr. Ugo Uwaoma, MD, MBA

Due to the impact of COVID-19, integrating telehealth software into practices and organizations has become the new normal. In turn, this has increased the effectiveness of collaborative healthcare by strengthening communication amongst healthcare workers and helping combat the woes of burnout. Communication between patients and healthcare providers has also improved, allowing patients to reach their providers easily and decreasing turnaround time.

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News 3/31/23

HIStalk

Top News Senators Patty Murray (D-WA), Jon Tester (D-MT), and.

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Primary health care is everyone’s political responsibility. Let’s share the best solutions

Healthy Debate

The post Primary health care is everyone’s political responsibility. Let’s share the best solutions appeared first on Healthy Debate.

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ViVE and CHIME Wrap Up with Dr. Jayne 3/30/23

HIStalk

It was another busy couple of days at the conference.

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Interview with Arrive Health CEO Kyle Kiser

Health Business Group

Arrive Health allows providers to understand the financial impact of their prescribing on specific patients before it's too late to change course. That helps reduce out of pocket costs, improving access, affordability and outcomes. Arrive CEO Kyle Kiser shares how his family experience shaped him for his current role, how the company differentiates from its competitors and what the future holds.

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Top 12 Telehealth KPIs Every Health Tech Leader Should Know

Speaker: Matt McBride, CEO and Co-Founder of Mend

Patient engagement happens before, during, and after interactions. Consumer research has found that in 2021, 64% of US households reported using Telehealth services. In addition 34% of patients would prefer Telehealth visits to in-office visits. Accessible patient engagement technology can help you improve your relationships with your patients while also improving your KPIs.