Sat.Oct 29, 2022 - Fri.Nov 04, 2022

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What Home Health Providers May Change Due To Final Rule

Home Health Care

Now that the final payment rule for the home health care industry is officially out, providers and advocates will take the long-awaited next step. For advocates, that will mean continuing legislation efforts. Although the final rule includes a 0.7% aggregate payment bump for home health agencies , behavioral adjustment cuts are still being implemented.

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COVID-19 telehealth diagnoses fell in August

Health Care Dive

There was no change in telehealth use in the Midwest and Northeast in August, but utilization rose 4.7% in the South and fell 1.4% in the West.

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Nuvance Health develops new memory care-at-home platform

Healthcare It News

Patients with mild cognitive impairment being treated at Nuvance Health Neuroscience Institute practices in New York and Connecticut, as well as their caregivers, have access to a new virtual neurological specialty care support program. WHY IT MATTERS. MCI is an early stage of memory loss or other cognition problems, such as difficulty with language and thinking.

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Uncover Hidden Consumer Insights & SEO Opportunities with Google Trends

Healthcare Success

Google Trends is a powerful but underutilized tool that helps healthcare marketers. Conduct search engine optimization (SEO) research, Identify current trends, Find out what people are interested in, And build better, more relevant campaigns. It also allows marketers to analyze search term popularity over time, explore related keywords, and compare how search terms vary across different geographical areas.

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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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RCM Solutions in Healthcare are Need for Better Practice in 2023

p3care

RCM Solutions in Healthcare ease up the providers more preferably as they assure the financial stability for their secret practicing future. A provider’s performance is not only dependent on the service they deliver but also on the equipment they use, the time they spend on treating the patients, and the fair and efficient dealing and healthy hospital environment they provide.

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Monthly healthcare job gains stronger this year than last

Health Care Dive

Healthcare employment has risen by an average of 47,000 new jobs a month this year, compared to 9,000 a month on average in 2021, according to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

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Consumers Rank Healthcare Experiences in the Bottom-Third of All Industries – the ACSI 2021-2022 Index

Health Populi

While consumers’ satisfaction with inpatient care experiences improved a few points over the past year, health insurance and hospitals still fall in the bottom-third of all industries with which people interact, according to the American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI) Insurance and Health Care Study 2021-2022. “With visitor restrictions relaxing and more elective procedures going forward, hospitals are slowly coming out of a COVID-induced satisfaction slump,” the study pres

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How & Why You Should Become a Clinical Psychologist in 2023?

p3care

People in today’s world have upgraded their standard of living and are striving hard to maintain their lifestyles. They have chosen very hectic daily routines which have deprived them of their mental peace. Their unending desires have no limit. As a result, we have affected our mental health more than our physical health and without noticing it, we are actively creating more problems for ourselves.

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Cigna faces questions about M&A strategy amid ‘arms race’ for deals

Health Care Dive

One analyst asked whether not pursuing deals will pose a disadvantage in future years. CEO David Cordani said he is open to M&A but does not think acquisitions are a “silver bullet.

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Telehealth summit debrief: staffing shortages, wider acceptance but expansion barriers

Healthcare It News

Telemedicine technology and services vendor Avel eCare recently launched its inaugural annual Customer Forum and Innovation Summit focused on driving innovation in virtual care. This first event featured healthcare leaders from across the country and took place in Nashville. Topics included the workforce shortage and burnout , increasing access to telebehavioral health , expanding critical and emergency care on demand, cybersecurity, and telehealth waivers and licensing.

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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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Nuclear Weapons and Putin's 'Holy War'

The Rand Blog

Russia's nuclear saber-rattling has shifted the stakes of the war in Ukraine. But enabling Russia's blackmail doesn't prevent the catastrophic costs of nuclear escalation. It merely shifts those costs away from Russia and into the future, inviting other nuclear states to pull the same move for their conquests.

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How To Deal with Sebaceous Hyperplasia Treatment

p3care

Our entire body is covered with skin, which is the biggest organ in our body. It always protects us from harmful environments and weather changes. However, the aging factor came with several risks. One of them is sebaceous hyperplasia which calls for appropriate sebaceous hyperplasia treatments. Although we have a myriad of new treatments for sebaceous hyperplasia, all of them act differently on different skin types from person to person.

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CMS to ease Medicare ACOs into risk models in bid to boost participation

Health Care Dive

Beginning in January 2024, ACOs that don’t have experience with performance-based risk will be able to stay in a one-sided risk arrangement for up to seven years before transitioning to two-sided risk.

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Grand challenges and opportunities for patient-centered CDS

Healthcare It News

Clinical Decision Support Electronic Health Records (EHR, EMR) Government & Policy Patient Engagement AHRQ is helping the transition towards evidence-based recommendations to guide clinical decision-making that incorporates patients' needs and preferences. Dr. Prashila Dullabh Dr. Prashila Dullabh is vice president and senior fellow at NORC at the University of Chicago, and Director of NORC’s Health Implementation Science Center.

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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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How Veterans Fare in the Civilian Labor Market

The Rand Blog

Around 200,000 service members transition to the civilian labor market every year. They often find it's like falling into another dimension, one where employers don't even speak the same language. More than a decade of RAND research has sought to ease that transition.

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Smoking Weed (Cannabis): Does it Mess Up Your Liver?

p3care

The world is familiar with the adverse utilization of smoking week in various forms. For instance, addicts smoke Cannabis (Marijuana) in joints (hand-rolled cigarettes), cigars, bongs, and blunts. However, research on its impacts on the human liver and other body parts is in-process. Despite this, the growing research on Cannabis and the human liver has more nuanced findings.

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CVS agrees to pay $5B to resolve opioid-related lawsuits

Health Care Dive

Walgreens and Walmart also have reportedly reached deals. If they become final, it could end much of the yearslong litigation over the pharmacy companies’ role in the opioid epidemic.

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Data linkage project seeks to improve First Nations maternal and child health outcomes

Healthcare It News

A new project led by indigenous community leaders, together with researchers from the University of Queensland, seeks to link disparate health records of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders across health facilities to improve maternal and perinatal health outcomes. The Digital Infrastructure For improving First Nations Maternal and Child Health (DIFFERENCE) project has been awarded A$3 million in funding from the federal government's Medical Research Future Fund.

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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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U.S. Eviction Policy is Harming Children: The Case for Sustainable Eviction Prevention to Promote Health Equity

Bill Of Health

By Emily A. Benfer. Without a nationwide commitment to sustainable eviction prevention, the United States will fail the rising number of renter households at risk of eviction. Worse still, the country will set millions of children on the path of long-term scarring and health inequity. A staggering 14.8% of all children and 28.9% of children in families living below the poverty line experience an eviction by the time they are 15.

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Urgent Care Medical Billing for an Improved Profit Margin

p3care

The patient always visits a related physician to get treatment for whatever illness they are dealing with. On the other hand, a physician always attends to them and performs tests and processes to restore their health. However, the more patients flow in a healthcare center, hospital, or clinic, the more will be the cash flow, and this upgrades the medical billing profit margin.

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Cigna partners with in-home primary care provider Heal

Health Care Dive

The provider, which focuses on care for seniors, is collaborating with Cigna to offer house calls and remote monitoring to Medicare Advantage customers in four states.

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How to promote equity when connecting providers and patients

Healthcare It News

Enterprise Taxonomy: Node settings: Exclude from Accelerate RSS feed

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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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PBJ Staffing Submission Deadline Approaching!

Briggs Healthcare

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. Monday, November 14, 2022. That’s the deadline for submission of 4 th quarter fiscal PBJ (Payroll Based Journal) data. Submissions must be received by the end of the 45th calendar day (11:59 PM Eastern Standard Time) after the last day in each fiscal quarter to be considered timely.

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Implementation of 72 Hour Rule in Medical Billing

p3care

“Medicaid Services” & “The Centers for Medicaid Services” has rigged the three-day rule against the combat fraud related to the “False Claims Act,” that rule is known as “the 72-Hour Rule” As a result, all the outpatient diagnostic or other medical services delivered within 72 hours of hospital admission are billed collectively instead of individually.

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Healthcare lobbying rose 70% over past two decades

Health Care Dive

U.S. healthcare lobbying expenditures totaled almost $714 million in 2020, compared to $358 million in 2000, according to new research.

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Enhabit Bullish On Managed Care Agreements, ‘Extremely Disappointed’ In Final Rule

Home Health Care

Yet another large home health company is touting its agreements with managed care plans. This time, it’s Enhabit Inc. (NYSE: EHAB). Last week, it was Amedisys Inc. (Nasdaq: AMED) unveiling its agreement with CVS Health’s (NYSE:CVS) Aetna. Between contract agreements and easing labor pressures, Enhabit leaders believe that two of their largest pain points are softening.

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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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Inspiring digital perseverance at HLTH 2022

Cloud Blogs

The past few years have been a period of dramatic change, with disruptions to our society, public health, frontline healthcare worker shortage, technology, and the way we work. As organizations adapt to new challenges, they are turning to their technology providers to help them succeed. At this year's HLTH 2022 conference Microsoft + Nuance will join other industry innovators and thought leaders to consider how organizations are using digital technology to turn the corner in unprecedented times.

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How to Start & Grow Your Medical Billing Business in 2023

p3care

If you are thinking of starting a Medical Billing Business, you must be worried about how to start & grow it immediately; well, it’s not so easy to get a large number of clients & generate revenue right off the bat, but some strategies will help you succeed fast in a particular field. Things you faced at the start of a Medical Billing Business.

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CMS finalizes requirements for rural emergency hospital designation

Health Care Dive

The conditions of participation include maintaining an average length of stay of no more than 24 hours and having emergency care available 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

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Exploring Recent Home Health-Medicare Advantage Developments

Home Health Care

This article is a part of your HHCN+ Membership. The 2023 home health final payment rule was released Monday. With a positive market-basket update for 2023 but also jarring long-term cuts, it will have ramifications for home health providers for years potentially, barring mitigating legislation or a complete change of course from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).

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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.