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New AMA blueprint seeks to tap the full potential of digital health

Healthcare It News

The American Medical Association's had offered a blueprint as a call to action to address the divide between the unprecedented levels of digital health funding, partnerships, mergers and acquisitions – and their underwhelming impact, thus far, on healthcare quality improvement. WHY IT MATTERS. THE LARGER TREND.

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Back to the Future: 2023 Payment Rule Would Revert Nondiscrimination and Guaranteed Availability Provisions to Pre-Trump Forms, Returns Standardized Plan Options

Sheppard Health Law

First, issuers may only count provider incentive and bonus payments as claims expense if they are “tied to clearly defined, objectively measurable, and well-documented clinical or quality improvement standards.” Second, issuers only may count expenditures directly related to activities that improve healthcare quality.