Fierce Healthcare

JANUARY 3, 2024

A “pivotal year for price transparency” closed out with most—but not all—of the healthcare industry publishing their data publicly and at a higher quality, price transparency data startup Turquoise | A state-of-the-industry report released Thursday found steady improvements in the number of organizations releasing price data, as well as the comprehensiveness and usability of those data.

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Healthcare It News

JANUARY 3, 2024

Before the implementation of Epic's MyChart patient portal, Parkview Health System faced several challenges in patient engagement and communication. Patients often found it difficult to access their health records, leading to a lack of transparency and engagement in their healthcare journeys. This gap in communication sometimes resulted in missed appointments, medication non-adherence , and a general sense of disconnect between patients and their healthcare providers.

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Fierce Healthcare

JANUARY 3, 2024

Hospitals and clinician groups are pushing back on federal regulators' proposal to enforce data blocking rules, arguing that the penalties are "excessive," "unfair" and will discourage participatio | Hospitals and medical groups are pushing back on federal regulators' proposal to enforce data blocking rules, arguing that the penalties are "excessive," "unfair" and will discourage participation in value-based care programs.

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Health Care Dive

JANUARY 3, 2024

The struggling primary care chain is now targeting $290 million in cost reductions by the end of this year.

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Fierce Healthcare

JANUARY 3, 2024

The survey reached more than 2,000 patients and found many patients frustrated by limited opportunities to communicate with their providers.

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Health Care Dive

JANUARY 3, 2024

A spokesperson attributed the cuts to economic headwinds and a need to reduce administrative costs.

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Health Care Dive

JANUARY 3, 2024

An appeals court has granted Apple’s emergency motion to pause the U.S. International Trade Commission’s ban on sales of its watches with a pulse oximetry feature.

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Fierce Healthcare

JANUARY 3, 2024

Solera Health, a chronic condition management platform for payers and employers, is expanding its platform to include virtual specialty care facilitated by several new clinical partners. | The latest expansion into virtual specialty care furthers the company’s value-based care mission by widening access to specialist docs in a low-cost setting, executives told Fierce Healthcare.

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The Rand Blog

JANUARY 3, 2024

Ray Block, Jr., leads RAND's efforts to combat Truth Decay—the diminishing role of facts and analysis in public life. It's the talking heads on TV, distrust and conspiracy theories, and basic disagreements over not just what's right, but what's real. He advises people to be active consumers of information.

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Fierce Healthcare

JANUARY 3, 2024

BrightSpring Health kicked off 2024 by renewing its plans to go public, signaling a potential end to the dry spell in the healthcare IPO market. | BrightSpring Health kicked off 2024 by renewing its plans to go public, signaling a potential end to the dry spell in the healthcare IPO market.

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Home Health Care

JANUARY 3, 2024

BrightSpring Health Services officially filed plans for an initial public offering Tuesday. The home- and community-based services provider first planned to go public in 2021, but ultimately decided against it. Now, those plans are full speed ahead yet again. “With over 40 years of experience caring for ‘must-serve’ client and patient populations, we deliver care in preferred and lower-cost settings with strong quality results,” the company wrote in an S-1 filing.

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Sequence Health

JANUARY 3, 2024

Most healthcare call centers operate in high-pressure situations. And when a crisis strikes, their resources and capabilities are often put under immense strain. For this reason, effective crisis management is an indispensable skill for medical call centers to have. What Is Crisis Management? Crisis management involves anticipating, preparing for, and effectively responding to crisis situations when they arise.

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Home Health Care

JANUARY 3, 2024

This article is a part of your HHCN+ Membership Medicare Advantage (MA) enrollment has been on a steady climb over the last two decades. As such, home health agencies have started to adjust operations to better fit the payer landscape in the future, and not just now. Agencies in states like Michigan, Hawaii and Alabama have already had to do that — and those transitions haven’t been seamless.

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NASHP

JANUARY 3, 2024

Updated January 3, 2024 Find the status of individual state’s legislation to address health care costs in 2024 using the map and chart on this page. Use the drop down to select the type of legislation you’re interested in. Download archived tracker for previous years : 2023 , 2022 , 2021 , and 2020. This map and chart are supported by Arnold Ventures.

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HKLaw

JANUARY 3, 2024

Holland & Knight Health Dose is an in-depth weekly dose of legislative and regulatory insights to keep stakeholders abreast of happenings in Washington, D.C., impacting the health sector.

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Healthcare Associates

JANUARY 3, 2024

Gestational diabetes is a common but serious condition that occurs during pregnancy. Each year, 2% to 10% of pregnancies in the United States are affected by gestational diabetes. Without proper diagnosis and treatment, it can increase the risk of pregnancy complications like preeclampsia. It can also cause your baby to have a high birth weight and size, which may mean you need a C-section.

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NASHP

JANUARY 3, 2024

The 2022 National Strategy to Support Family Caregivers contains over 300 actions that federal and state agencies, communities, private and public organizations, and a range of other organizations can take to support family caregivers. After publication, the general public had an opportunity to submit public comments on the 2022 National Strategy.

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NCQA

JANUARY 3, 2024

In this Inside Health Care interview, we explore GME — graduate medical education — and explore a few fundamental questions. How can we make sure today’s medical residents are paying attention to their patients? How do we teach residents to ask the right questions? And even more fundamentally, how do we make sure that the next generation of clinicians knows how to implement value-based models of care in order to focus on person-centered outcomes?

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Home Health Care

JANUARY 3, 2024

Two home-based care providers – Compassus and the Pennant Group (Nasdaq: PNTG) – have expanded their JV portfolios this week. On Wednesday, Compassus and Ascension announced the expansion of their Tennessee-based home health partnership, which is dubbed Ascension Saint Thomas at Home. Subsequently, Ascension Saint Thomas at Home’s service area now covers 17 Tennessee counties in the mid and west parts of the state.

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HIStalk

JANUARY 3, 2024

News Microsoft rolls out the Copilot app, which was formerly.

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p3care

JANUARY 3, 2024

You know, what’s the common point of connection between healthcare providers and insurance payers? Well, it is none other than medical billing outsourcing companies in USA. Throughout America, there is an extensive network for outsourcing medical billing services. They file claims for the services rendered by providers and submit them to the payer.

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HIStalk

JANUARY 3, 2024

Mercy leaders promise upgrades as they close deal for southeast.

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Health Care Dive

JANUARY 3, 2024

The study comes as lawmakers and the Biden administration call for more oversight into private equity’s role in healthcare.

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