Health Care Dive
DECEMBER 15, 2021
The federal government will reimburse smaller providers more favorably in this funding round, regulators said, acknowledging these facilities tend to operate on shakier financial footing compared to larger peers.
Fierce Healthcare
DECEMBER 15, 2021
Northwell Health, American Academy of Family Physicians and Athenahealth join digital health equity pledge. agliadkovskaya. Wed, 12/15/2021 - 12:21.
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Health Care Dive
DECEMBER 15, 2021
New Jersey has the highest in-network costs for complex hospitalizations from COVID-19 of any U.S. state, nonprofit Fair Health said. Maryland, which uses an all-payer model, had the lowest.
Fierce Healthcare
DECEMBER 15, 2021
Managed care can help states address health equity. Here's how states are taking advantage of the option. agliadkovskaya. Wed, 12/15/2021 - 18:01.
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Healthcare It News
DECEMBER 15, 2021
It comes as a surprise to no one that healthcare's digital landscape is fragmented and siloed with numerous point solutions. UnityPoint Health, a health system based in Des Moines, Iowa, is well aware of this. THE PROBLEM. "Patients want digital health tools, but they do not want 100 of them," said Matthew Warrens, chief digital innovation officer at UnityPoint Health.
Fierce Healthcare
DECEMBER 15, 2021
CMS actuaries: Healthcare expenditures spiked 9.7% in 2020 amid COVID-19 response. pminemyer. Wed, 12/15/2021 - 16:28.
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Fierce Healthcare
DECEMBER 15, 2021
Moody's: Outlook stable for insurers in 2022, but COVID-19's effects could linger. pminemyer. Wed, 12/15/2021 - 13:27.
Health Care Dive
DECEMBER 15, 2021
While the emergence of the omicron variant is muddying next year's medtech outlook, analysts have identified three niches within the sector best positioned to successfully weather the continued strains on the healthcare system.
Fierce Healthcare
DECEMBER 15, 2021
Industry Voices—How prior authorization can disrupt medically necessary care. pminemyer. Wed, 12/15/2021 - 13:40.
Home Health Care
DECEMBER 15, 2021
Anywhere from 13,000 to 18,000 agencies make up the highly fragmented home care market. “Whatever the real number is, no one really knows,” Kunu Kaushal, founder and CEO of Senior Solutions Home Care, said last week at the Home Health Care News Home Care Conference. A big chunk of that market belongs to agencies that are part of a corporation or franchise system.
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Fierce Healthcare
DECEMBER 15, 2021
CMMI seeking safety-net providers for new wave of models that focus on health equity. rking. Wed, 12/15/2021 - 16:52.
Healthcare It News
DECEMBER 15, 2021
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Fierce Healthcare
DECEMBER 15, 2021
LAN survey: 40% of health payments tied to alternative payment models in 2020. rking. Wed, 12/15/2021 - 15:21.
Bill Of Health
DECEMBER 15, 2021
By Adrienne R. Ghorashi, Esq. All eyes are on SCOTUS after the Court heard oral arguments on Mississippi’s 15-week abortion ban in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization and issued narrow rulings in cases related to Texas SB8 early this month. The line of questioning, as well as the Court’s continued decision to allow most abortions in Texas to come to a screeching halt, are a distressing signal that abortion rights are in immediate danger.
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Fierce Healthcare
DECEMBER 15, 2021
Wheel teams up with GoodRx to integrate medication pricing information into its virtual care platform. hlandi. Wed, 12/15/2021 - 07:12.
Home Health Care
DECEMBER 15, 2021
On the last day of November, a nationwide injunction was issued by a federal judge in Louisiana to freeze the COVID-19 vaccine mandate from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). On Wednesday, the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans ruled that the injunction should not have been applied nationwide. Instead, it should have only applied to a group of 14 states that had sued over the mandate in the first place.
Fierce Healthcare
DECEMBER 15, 2021
UnitedHealth pushes back deadline for Change Healthcare acquisition to April. pminemyer. Wed, 12/15/2021 - 18:30.
Home Health Care
DECEMBER 15, 2021
A new analysis from the Office of the Actuary at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) estimates that health care spending in the U.S. increased 9.7% to $4.1 trillion in 2020. And home health care, in particular, experienced robust spending growth. The retrospective analysis – which details a truly unprecedented year in health care – was published online by Health Affairs on Wednesday.
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Fierce Healthcare
DECEMBER 15, 2021
Humana, Centene sue pharma companies over alleged scheme to squash HIV drug competition. pminemyer. Wed, 12/15/2021 - 10:52.
HIT Consultant
DECEMBER 15, 2021
What You Should Know: – Sheba Medical Center , Israel’s largest hospital, today announced that over $110 million was raised in 2021 by six companies from its ARC Innovation Center. All companies are based on technology invented and developed out of Sheba, with Sheba MedTech startups raising over one billion dollars over the last decade. ARC Innovation Center Background.
Fierce Healthcare
DECEMBER 15, 2021
Big data startup Innovaccer nabs $150M, catapults to $3.2B valuation. rtorrence. Wed, 12/15/2021 - 10:50.
HIT Consultant
DECEMBER 15, 2021
What You Should Know: – Syapse , a real-world evidence company that informs cancer care, announced a partnership with Bayhealth – central and southern Delaware’s largest healthcare system. – Bayhealth will leverage Syapse’ multi-source real-world data platform to bring the latest in cancer diagnostics and treatments to Delaware patients, so that they can receive evidence-based care and match to potentially life-saving clinical trial opportunities.
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Medical GPS
DECEMBER 15, 2021
It’s no revelation that as fellow humans we naturally share a lot of similarities. We look similar, behave similarly, require the same elements to survive, and have a core set of senses and emotions that drive and guide us. Somehow, despite this latter likeness, we can forget that our fellow humans- friends, family, coworkers, customers, and patients desire to be treated with the same courtesy and respect that we want extended to ourselves.
HIT Consultant
DECEMBER 15, 2021
v. What You Should Know: – Wheel , the digital health company putting great care within everyone’s reach, today announced a new integration with GoodRx , America’s digital resource for healthcare, to help people save on their prescription costs and follow their treatment plans. Now Wheel clients and their millions of patients can seamlessly access discounts on medications at more than 70,000 pharmacies nationwide.
Healthcare ECONOMIST
DECEMBER 15, 2021
From CMS’s office of the Actuary as reported in Health Affairs today : US health care spending increased 9.7 percent to reach $4.1 trillion in 2020, a much faster rate than the 4.3 percent increase seen in 2019. The acceleration in 2020 was due to a 36.0 percent increase in federal expenditures for health care that occurred largely in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Healthy Debate
DECEMBER 15, 2021
The post Children’s visits to emergency departments surge as winter looms appeared first on Healthy Debate.
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.
Healthcare ECONOMIST
DECEMBER 15, 2021
Virtual surgery. Change in premiums for ACA Marketplace plans. The metaverse and medicine. Brain computer interface. “ No shots, no school ” in LA.
Eclinical Works
DECEMBER 15, 2021
How eClinicalWorks and healow Bolster the Front Office. An October 2021 report from Fitch Ratings found that since February 2020 — when the COVID-19 pandemic began — employment in the U.S. healthcare industry has declined by 524,000 positions.
HIT Consultant
DECEMBER 15, 2021
What You Should Know: – Bamboo Health announced that it has expanded its care coordination partnership with Oak Street Health intended to arm the network of value-based primary care centers (for Medicare) with an additional level of resources for managing real-time patient event notifications. Real-Time Patient Event Notifications. Pings real-time data provides Oak Street Health with a better understanding of where patients are in the care continuum across Bamboo Health’s network of 2,500
NASHP
DECEMBER 15, 2021
Lessons for Advancing and Sustaining State Community Health Worker Partnerships December 15, 2021 / By Elinor Higgins, Elaine Chhean, Sandra Wilkniss, Hemi Tewarson. Introduction. As states work towards a modernized public health system, while also grappling with significant workforce challenges in health care, many are identifying workforce strategies to build capacity, advance health equity, and improve health.
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.
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