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Protecting the Consumer at the Heart of DTC Precision Medicine

Bill Of Health

Namely, legal protections concerning personal health data may not apply when the entity offering the service is decidedly not a “provider.” To illustrate the issue, consider that the Privacy Rule of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) expressly covers genetic information as a form of health data.

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Enabling a Better Future for All by Embracing Healthcare Interoperability

HIT Consultant

Rajesh Sharma, Vice President and General Manager of Systems Integration, Data Analytics and Interoperability Product Offerings, Gainwell Technologies The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has laid the critical groundwork to create a connected healthcare system in which patients, providers, and payers can easily exchange information.

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Healthcare Interoperability Has Arrived: 3 Ways to Harness the Potential

HIT Consultant

While the healthcare industry has been extolling the virtues of data interoperability for years until recently it has remained one of the biggest obstacles to providing quality healthcare today. Grealy alludes to the data flow barriers that still exist today even while some important federal interoperability standards have been passed.

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Private Equity and Digital Health in 2023: Policy Updates and Trends to Watch

Sheppard Health Law

Congress’s expansion of access to telehealth takes steps to ensure continuity of care for Medicare beneficiaries and provides regulators with additional time to determine which flexibilities will become permanent, indicating a success for the telehealth industry as well as a reminder that there is more legislation to come.

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Closing Gaps in Care with Advanced Interoperability Capabilities

Lexis Nexis

Medicare Advantage is one of the most popular risk-based programs and has increasingly drawn the interest of payers. Medicare Advantage is one of the most popular risk-based programs and has increasingly drawn the interest of payers. Underpinning quality reporting for these ratings is a combination of performance measures.

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The New Search for Reproductive Justice in Old Laws

Bill Of Health

Passed in 1986, EMTALA requires hospitals accepting Medicaid or Medicare payments from HHS or CMS to provide abortion care necessary to address emergency medical conditions. Because most hospitals rely on Medicaid and Medicare payments, the law currently applies to nearly all hospitals in the U.S. OCR HIPAA Privacy Rule Guidance.

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HCPCS vs CPT: Everything You Need to Know

Etactics

Preventing denial codes is essential if you want to keep a steady revenue flow. This is an easily preventable billing error, which we are going to go over in this blog. However, Medicare and other insurance cover a variety of different services and supplies, some of which aren’t identified by CPT codes. 71020 - Chest X-ray.