Fierce Healthcare
MAY 15, 2024
NEW YORK CITY—Uber Health will begin rolling out a new solution designed for caregivers this summer, the company announced at its annual product event Wednesday. | Uber Caregiver will allow care-receivers to add a caregiver to their Uber profile so they can see and spend their health benefits on eligible services, request rides to doctor’s appointments or order groceries.
Health Care Dive
MAY 14, 2024
Regulators sued the private equity firm last year for consolidating anesthesiology services in Texas with its portfolio company, U.S. Anesthesia Partners. Now, a judge is holding Welsh Carson blameless while allowing the suit against USAP to continue.
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Fierce Healthcare
MAY 9, 2024
The U.S. Department of Justice announced Thursday it has established a new task force to take on healthcare monopolies and collusion. | The U.S. Department of Justice announced Thursday it has established a new task force to take on healthcare monopolies and collusion.
Health Care Dive
MAY 13, 2024
All major payers saw elevated utilization but only an unprepared few struggled with the trend, the Change Healthcare cyberattack caused minimal financial fallout and a new D-SNP rule opens the door to a Medicare growth opportunity.
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Healthcare It News
MAY 13, 2024
The Health Information Sharing and Analysis Center issued a threat alert Friday about the Russia-backed ransomware group Black Basta, warning of its accelerated attempted attacks against the healthcare sector. Prompted by H-ISAC, the American Hospital Association also sent a cybersecurity advisory with technical mitigation recommendations to its members.
Healthcare Success
MAY 10, 2024
Interviewing medical experts is a tried-and-true way to produce original website content. Without that first-hand, unique, and accurate medical knowledge, your content can unintentionally mislead consumers, damage your reputation, and lose search engine rankings. But what if the experts your organization needs are busy doctors? Or you need help building a content strategy?
Health Care Quality Digest brings together the best content for healthcare quality professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
Fierce Healthcare
MAY 13, 2024
The gap between insurance plans and Medicare's payments to hospitals for inpatient and outpatient services widened over the course of just a couple of years, a new study from RAND Corporation | A new report from RAND Corporation highlighted just how much more employers and private insurers are paying hospitals for inpatient and outpatient services.
Healthcare It News
MAY 14, 2024
Besides being all the rage in the industry, digital transformation is a key component to the strategy of forward-leaning hospitals and health systems today. It aligns healthcare organizations with its customers – highly digital patients. This is one of the most important topics healthcare CIOs and other C-suite and health IT leaders can be talking about today.
Home Health Care
MAY 14, 2024
Aveanna Healthcare Holdings (Nasdaq: AVAH) leaders believe the company is back at a place where it can bank on near-term growth in its Medicare-certified home health business. It first entered into a business “transformation” in January 2023, and that transformation is already paying dividends, according to CEO Jeff Shaner. But much of the turnaround has been led by the private-duty services segment.
HIT Consultant
MAY 13, 2024
Tanya Sanderson, RN, BSN, MBA, MHA, CLNC, CHFP, Sr. Director of Revenue Integrity, Xsolis The concept of “revenue integrity” hasn’t really changed over the years, but the roles, responsibilities, and oversight have become far more complex and difficult to gain industry consensus around. What began as several defined systems of controls by which hospitals guarded against revenue loss, revenue integrity has seemingly turned into more narrowly focused controls in many organizations, leaving critica
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Fierce Healthcare
MAY 14, 2024
Facing the wrath of upset investors following its first quarter earnings, CVS Health has promised to value margins over members going forward. | CVS Health is reassessing its Medicare Advantage business and weighing the possibility of exiting certain markets as it looks to get its margins under control.
Health Care Dive
MAY 13, 2024
The stakes, impact and cost of cybercrime is rising and we must employ the right tech to fight back.
Healthcare It News
MAY 13, 2024
How Azalea Health's telehealth and EHR tools integrate with partners' remote patient monitoring and chronic care management products to treat patients living in rural care deserts, shows Khue Tran, chief strategy officer.
Home Health Care
MAY 14, 2024
This article is a part of your HHCN+ Membership Last month, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) unveiled its final overtime rule, which is set to go into effect this summer. The rule increases a minimum salary threshold for millions of workers across the country, and could impact home health and home care providers. Broadly, the DOL has increased the salary threshold for the minimum compensation necessary for an individual to be exempt from overtime under the Fair Labor Standards Act.
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HIT Consultant
MAY 15, 2024
Kyruus Health logo What You Should Know: – Kyruus Health , a leader in care access platforms, has announced a significant expansion of the Kyruus Network by integrating virtual behavioral health providers. – The Kyruus Network enables health plans to expand their dataset, close care gaps, and boost access by making the provider directory actionable.
Health Care Dive
MAY 10, 2024
The health system’s electronic health records, MyChart patient portal and several systems for ordering tests and medications are unavailable, Ascension said.
Healthcare It News
MAY 14, 2024
Fortis Healthcare, a publicly listed private hospital network from India, has introduced a new mental health service enabled by artificial intelligence. The hospital network , which is also part of the larger private healthcare group IHH Healthcare, signed an exclusive partnership with mental health super app United We Care to establish Adayu Mindfulness.
Home Health Care
MAY 13, 2024
While some private equity investors have been sidelined by macro and micro headwinds, there are still plenty of PE firms invested in home-based care that like where they are. On the Medicare-certified home health side, one factor that may have made investors hesitant to enter the space is the challenging payment landscape. Despite this, Kaltroco — a family-owned private investment company — is attracted to home health care due to the firm’s belief in the fundamentals of the sector.
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HIT Consultant
MAY 15, 2024
What You Should Know: – WakeMed Health & Hospitals and Regard today announced a 3-year enterprise agreement to deploy Regard’s AI clinical automation tool to the system’s 3 acute care hospitals by the end of 2024. Regard will allow for improved documentation quality, and in turn, decrease physician burnout and improve patient care. – The deployment of Regard’s AI-powered clinical automation platform aims to enhance documentation quality, reduce physician burden, and ultimately, i
Fierce Healthcare
MAY 13, 2024
Online therapy provider Talkspace is making a big push into the Medicare market, rolling out to approximately 13 million members in 11 states. | Talkspace plans to expand to all 33 million traditional Medicare members, coupled with several Medicare Advantage plans, across all 50 states by the end of the year.
Health Care Dive
MAY 9, 2024
The legislation would extend a number of Medicare flexibilities through 2026. Lawmakers have until year-end to take action before the pandemic-era rules will expire.
Healthcare It News
MAY 14, 2024
Sarah Wamala Andersson, professor of health and welfare technology at Sweden's Mälardalen University, discusses Europe's IDEAHL project, which aims to increase citizens' access to and use of digital health tools through targeted interventions.
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.
Home Health Care
MAY 9, 2024
Enhabit Inc. (NYSE: EHAB) announced Wednesday the result of its strategic review. It was not a sale or a merger, but instead a commitment to the path forward as an independent public company. On Thursday, company leaders explained the rationale behind that decision, which was made unanimously by the board. Part of it is tied to external factors that make a large-scale transaction difficult right now, and part of it is tied to the success Enhabit has had in changing its business model.
HIT Consultant
MAY 15, 2024
Tom Liddell, CEO at Healthcare Harmony IT As we step into the promising terrain of 2024 and beyond, the healthcare industry stands at the cusp of a transformative era, propelled by advanced technology solutions. For healthcare IT professionals, there will be many challenges and opportunities – especially as there is more patient data than ever before.
Fierce Healthcare
MAY 15, 2024
The Energy and Commerce Committee released telehealth extension legislation today that will be voted on during a health subcommittee markup Thursday. | The House Energy and Commerce health subcommittee will hold a markup May 16 that includes a different two-year telehealth extension proposal than the Ways and Means Committee passed last week.
Health Care Dive
MAY 9, 2024
The model, if finalized, will test whether putting hospitals on the hook for kidney transplant access and quality might improve the nation’s shoddy system of organ procurement and transplantation.
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Healthcare It News
MAY 16, 2024
RPM tools and other user-friendly tech are enabling a paradigm shift in care delivery, says Dr. Maulik Majmudar, CMO at Biofourmis, who says it's also important to be educated on the pain points associated of home care.
The Rand Blog
MAY 9, 2024
RAND researchers fielded their survey to provide the first nationally representative look at what people will actually do when faced with an unfair AI outcome.
HIT Consultant
MAY 14, 2024
What You Should Know: – Dandelion Health , a leader in real-world data (RWD) and clinical AI, has unveiled the industry’s first-ever multimodal GLP-1 data library. – The multimodal GLP-1 data library empowers researchers and life sciences companies to unlock deeper insights into the use of glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) receptor agonist drugs for precision medicine.
Fierce Healthcare
MAY 15, 2024
U.S. | Senators Sheldon Whitehouse and Bill Cassidy want to reform how primary care providers get paid through Medicare, and they also want to hear from the healthcare industry about the best way to do it.
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