Fierce Healthcare

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Cigna study: How much behavioral health treatment can lower total cost of care. pminemyer. Tue, 11/16/2021 - 10:37.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2021

In a new report, ICER highlighted AbbVie's price hikes on Humira, which the group said resulted in more than $1 billion in U.S. spending last year without any new evidence of health benefits.

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Fierce Healthcare

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

General Catalyst, a16z and Rock Health back Ribbon Health's $43.5M series B to build out health data platform. hlandi. Tue, 11/16/2021 - 16:32.

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Health Care Dive

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

The nonprofit's volumes increased even though its COVID-19 census plateaued later in the quarter, as patients who deferred care during the pandemic sought treatment, hiking expenses.

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Fierce Healthcare

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

CommonSpirit's quarterly patient, premium revenue up 12.3% year over year. pminemyer. Tue, 11/16/2021 - 16:32.

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The Rand Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Health care consolidation is endemic across the United States. With consolidation has come public attention and regulatory scrutiny. Unfortunately, evidence is accumulating that health care consolidation is harming competition in the U.S. health care market, while neither reducing costs nor improving care.

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Home Health Care

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

SCAN Group has entered into the in-home senior primary care space with the launch of Welcome Health. Dr. Scott Weingarten will serve as CEO of the independent primary care medical group moving forward. “Welcome Health will care for predominantly Medicare Advantage patients,” Weingarten told Home Health Care News. “It’s a SCAN initiative. We will care for seniors largely, although not exclusively, in their home by sending out health care providers, including physicians and allied health professio

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Fierce Healthcare

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Improper Medicare payments down $20.7B since 2014, CMS data show. hlandi. Tue, 11/16/2021 - 07:15.

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

What You Should Know: – AppliedVR , an L.A.-based advancing the next generation of immersive therapeutics, today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted de novo approval for its flagship immersive therapeutic, EaseVRx, to treat chronic low back pain, which previously received breakthrough device designation in 2020.

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Fierce Healthcare

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Unions hope tentative deal with Kaiser Permanente sends a message about two-tier wage systems. rking. Tue, 11/16/2021 - 16:49.

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

What You Should Know: . – Digital lab and pathology platform PathologyWatch , today announced $25 million in Series B funding with participation from Ceros Capital Markets , Rock Creek Capital, Springtide Capital , Spark Growth Ventures , Blueprint Health , Blackbrook Management Group , and existing investors. – AI in diagnostic services grew by 80% in 2020 , largely in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, which also brought to our attention the need for more equitable and accessible h

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Fierce Healthcare

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

AMA moves against doctors who are spreading COVID-19 disinformation. hlandi. Tue, 11/16/2021 - 12:38.

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

What You Should Know: – Ribbon Health , an API data platform that powers high-quality, cost-effective, and convenient care decisions, announced a $43.5 million Series B investment led by General Catalyst and with participation from new and current investors, including Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) , BoxGroup , Rock Health, and Sachin Jain. – Ribbon plans to use this funding to prioritize team expansion and technology investments to build a best-in-class data platform to simplify healthc

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Fierce Healthcare

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Cerner names Nasim Afsar its first ever chief health officer. rtorrence. Tue, 11/16/2021 - 10:33.

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Home Health Care

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

When Coltala Holdings acquired a stake in Choice Health at Home in June , its co-founders – Ralph Manning and Edward Crawford – were ecstatic. After all, the Dallas-based private equity firm was looking to enter into the home health industry, but wasn’t sure it would be able to. Its confidence in finding the right provider was waning. Despite a hot M&A market and more limited opportunities, Coltala was able to sift around until it found a home health provider it believed in with Choice.

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Fierce Healthcare

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Providence posts $311M operating loss in Q3 due to higher expenses amid COVID-19 surge. rking. Tue, 11/16/2021 - 15:13.

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Healthcare Leadership

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Blog post by Joe Babaian. It’s the kind of mistrust of science because science is viewed as authority. And there’s a lot of anti-authority feeling. I think that’s the kind of thing that drives the anti-vaxxers , the people who don’t believe the science of vaccination and don’t want to get their children vaccinated. It’s all part of that trend, which is very disturbing.

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Fierce Healthcare

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Global employer benefits costs set to rise 8.1% in 2022: Willis Towers Watson. pminemyer. Tue, 11/16/2021 - 11:21.

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Home Health Care

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Trella Health – a post-acute analytics and metrics firm – has closed on a “significant” funding round, the company announced Tuesday. Financial details were not disclosed. The round was led by Cressey & Company LP, a private investment firm focused on health care services and information technology businesses. Cressey & Company has also invested in the research firm Home Care Pulse and the home health technology platform HHAeXchange.

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Health Care Success

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

As a leader of a healthcare organization, you’re focused on achieving your business goals. . So how does content fit in? Ideally, it should support your primary goals. . Today’s best content marketing is aligned with business goals and drives profitable action. What’s more, marketing teams can demonstrate how content contributes to business goals. .

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Health IT Analytics

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Massachusetts General… read more

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Osf Healthcare

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

The OSF Ventures team receives anywhere from 200 to 300 leads a year from companies developing innovative and exciting health care solutions. With the help of subject matter experts, they can identify investment opportunities that would make the largest impact in health care.

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Sequence Health

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

The health care system in the United States is complicated and navigating it can be difficult. There are many hoops that you have to jump through just to get the coverage that your patients need for chronic conditions or other medical issues. One of these hoops is getting Medicare coverage for transitional care services like physical therapy following surgery, skilled nursing after hospitalization, and long-term rehabilitation programs.

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Eclinical Works

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Providers seek to better control controlled substances. Synthetic opioids were developed with the best of intentions — to harness the well-known sedative and pain-relieving qualities of opium without the harmful side effects. And, for the better part of a century, they have largely done that, as long as physicians prescribed them appropriately and patients carefully followed their doctors’ orders.

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

What You Should Know: – Florence Health , a next-generation, fully risk-bearing, primary care provider, has partnered with Innovaccer to move its proprietary technology development to the Innovaccer Health Cloud. . – Florence, which will enter 2022 at full risk for more than 25,000 Medicare patients across multiple states and annual revenues of over $350 million, selected the Innovaccer Health Cloud after an extensive search that included all major public cloud providers.

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Etactics

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

1 in 3 organizations doesn’t provide anti-harassment training to their employees. On a small scale, that statistic might not sound as significant as it is. However, when you realize that there are more than 32.5 million businesses in the US , it suddenly seems more problematic. In other words, 10.73 million businesses in the US don’t train their employees on anti-harassment.

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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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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

What You Should Know: – QGenda today announced the acquisition of Schedule360 , the provider of cloud-based software to automate nurse and staff scheduling. – With the addition of nurse and staff scheduling, QGenda will enable healthcare organizations to manage, schedule and optimize the deployment of their entire workforce. Now, organizations can streamline scheduling processes across the enterprise to better optimize capacity and to improve outcomes through more appropriately match

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Briggs Healthcare

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. This annual notice was filed at 5pm ET on Friday, November 12, 2021. It is scheduled for publication in the Federal Register on Wednesday, November 17, 2021. “This notice announces the inpatient hospital deductible and the hospital and extended care services coinsurance amounts for services furnished in calendar year (CY) 2022 under Medicare’s Hospital Insurance Program (Medicare Part A).

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Healthcare ECONOMIST

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Clayton 2019 is an interesting study on the impact of drug spending on Medicaid beneficiary mortality levels. The author uses variation in the roll out of Medicaid drug coverage by state across different Medicaid eligible groups in order to isolate plausibly exogenous variation in drug expenditures. Using this approach, Clayton finds that: …a $1 increase in Medicaid drug expenditures per resident reduces mortality from internal causes by 2.0 deaths per hundred thousand, a decline of 0.23%.

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HIStalk

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Top News Population health management company Lightbeam Health Solutions will.

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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.