Health Care Dive
JANUARY 4, 2024
New York City yesterday joined Chicago, Los Angeles, Massachusetts and other communities in reinstating mask mandates to reduce the spread of viruses.
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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HIT Consultant
JANUARY 2, 2024
What You Should Know: – WellSpan Health , a leading healthcare system in Pennsylvania, is harnessing artificial intelligence (AI) to deliver innovative care solutions that tackle two critical challenges: patient safety and nurse burnout. – The strategic initiative, powered by the Artisight platform, promises a future of optimized care and improved well-being for both patients and healthcare professionals.
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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Health Care Dive
JANUARY 5, 2024
The clearance is a major shift for the agency, which described its decision as a “first step” in allowing Florida to bulk purchase lower-cost Canadian medicines.
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.
Health Care Quality Digest brings together the best content for healthcare quality professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
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.
Health Care Dive
JANUARY 5, 2024
In part one of a three-part Q&A series, Sunny Kumar discusses digital healthcare investment, the landscape for M&A and when the public markets could open back up.
p3care
JANUARY 1, 2024
Revenue collection for complex cardiology services is a big nightmare for medical billers. You know that a denied medical claim brings more pity for cardiology billing practices. This is so because just to locate the minute error behind the rejected claims, you’ve to repeat the whole process. Most of the time, insurers deny the claims for a multitude of reasons.
Healthcare Success
JANUARY 5, 2024
Managing a PPC strategy for any sized business is complex and challenging. But organizations with dozens or hundreds of locations face even more hurdles: Multilocation providers must consider each location’s unique needs, competitive situation, and business objectives—compounding the complexity of managing an accurate and effective PPC (aka pay-per-click or paid search) strategy.
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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
Fierce Healthcare
JANUARY 2, 2024
Yet another notable payer-provider contract negotiation is going public. | In a statement, the health system said that the insurance giant underpays for its services compared to other providers in the region.
Health Care Dive
JANUARY 5, 2024
More than 90% of hospitals posted files at least partially compliant with price transparency requirements in 2023, according to a new report from Turquoise Health.
HIT Consultant
JANUARY 4, 2024
Chaim Linhart, Chaim, Co-founder and CTO at Ibex Medical Analytics Artificial intelligence (AI) technology is set to transform the field of diagnostics, similar to how X-rays and genetic tests revolutionized healthcare in the past. Reshaping routine diagnostic procedures and treatment decisions and propelling pharmaceutical and research domains into new realms, AI offers significant benefits to clinicians, healthcare systems, researchers, and, most importantly, patients.
Home Health Care
JANUARY 2, 2024
From technology and onboarding to company policies and procedures, training is the industry-agnostic backbone of every process and job function within an organization. However, in a highly regulated industry like home-based care, which is facing some of the greatest staffing pressures in recent history, the role of training expands beyond the walls of the organization, and the ROI runs much deeper than face value.
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Fierce Healthcare
JANUARY 4, 2024
The cost of treating a COVID-19 hospital patient in the hospital rose by 26% over the first two years of the pandemic, more than five times the rate of medical inflation during that time, according | On average and after adjustments, direct treatment costs for a COVID-19 hospital admission rose 26%, from $10,394 in March 2020 to $13,072 in March 2022, researchers found in a new analysis of 1.3 million inpatient stays.
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.
HIT Consultant
JANUARY 4, 2024
Sean Crandell. SVP of Healthcare Economics at MultiPlan Data has become the lifeblood of healthcare, making it possible to gain granular insights that enable more effective and precise patient-centric care. Yet, we have just scratched the surface of data analytics’ potential impact on optimizing segments of healthcare that need it most, such as the surging arena of consumer health.
Home Health Care
JANUARY 5, 2024
In recent years, due to factors like the pandemic and the reinvention of hospitals, home health agencies are having to take care of much more complicated patients. As the demand for home-based care continues to rise, so does the need for more intensive care plans as patients continue to be sicker and more complex. Home health agencies are feeling this “acuity creep,” and they’re adjusting.
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Fierce Healthcare
JANUARY 5, 2024
In his first earnings call since taking over as CEO of Walgreens, Tim Wentworth signaled the drugstore retail giant is exploring new pharmacy models as cost-plus drug pricing gains momentum. | New Walgreens CEO Tim Wentworth signaled the drugstore retail giant is exploring new pharmacy models as cost-plus drug pricing gains momentum during the company's recent first-quarter earnings call.
Health Care Dive
JANUARY 3, 2024
A spokesperson attributed the cuts to economic headwinds and a need to reduce administrative costs.
HIT Consultant
JANUARY 1, 2024
Michael Kinkaid, Chief Technology Officer, Reason One halfway across the globe, make customizations and know exactly when it will be delivered. Navigating the portal of a healthcare system to find a physician who specializes in the care they need or make an appointment can be an ordeal in comparison. Clunky and confusing, they can frustrate patients, exacerbate worry, delay treatment and harm the reputation and business of a healthcare entity.
The Rand Blog
JANUARY 5, 2024
To rebuild successfully, Ukraine will need to come out of the war on a new trajectory. It already has an outline of what recovery will look like. The plan looks beyond the immediate damages and envisions more than $750 billion in economic support and projects that would raise a new Ukraine from the destruction.
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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.
Health Care Dive
JANUARY 4, 2024
The news comes less than a month after Cigna and Humana reportedly abandoned their merger.
Healthcare Highways
JANUARY 4, 2024
Cervical cancer is a silent threat that affects women around the world, but the good news is that we have a powerful weapon in our arsenal – a Pap smear. This quick and simple screening test plays a pivotal role in early detection and prevention, making it a vital component of women's healthcare.
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.
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.
Fierce Healthcare
JANUARY 4, 2024
Insurers in Maine will no longer be permitted to require patients meet a deductible or pay other cost-sharing measures before receiving access to an abortion, according to a new law that took effec | Legislators in Maine are removing financial barriers for patients to obtain access to an abortion. Insurers will be prohibited from requiring patients to meet a deductible or other cost-sharing measures.
Health Care Dive
JANUARY 5, 2024
CVS on Friday solidified what had been a temporary role for Cowhey, while sharing it expects enrollment in Medicare Advantage plans to exceed previous targets for 2024.
Bill Of Health
JANUARY 2, 2024
By Jon Larsen and Sterling Johnson There is a well-established whole of government response to drug policing centered around the “war on drugs.” However, the existing response is largely built on flawed policies that have resulted in mass incarceration, structural racism, and lagging improvements in treatment and harm reduction related to the opioid crisis.
Home Health Care
JANUARY 5, 2024
At the beginning of 2024, staffing woes remain acute for home- and community-based care providers. ANCOR, an advocacy organization for over 2,000 community-based providers, recently released “The State of America’s Direct Support Workforce Crisis 2023,” which detailed how home- and community-based providers are faring in the staffing department. The report surveyed nearly 600 providers, and particularly those who support those with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
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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