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Integrated EHR enables shift to virtual post-discharge follow-up

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The research team studied nearly 250,000 hospital discharges in patients with diabetes from 2005 to 2011. From 2006 to 2010, they explained, an integrated delivery system staggered implementation of an integrated EHR across 17 hospitals. WHY IT MATTERS. ON THE RECORD.

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HHS Issues Proposed Rule to Provide Clarity on Rights of Conscience in Healthcare

Healthcare Law Blog

Medicaid and Medicare The Balanced Budget Act of 1997, Public Law 105–33, 111 Stat. The Medicaid and Medicare statutes also contain conscience provisions related to the performance of advanced directives, religious nonmedical healthcare providers and their patients.

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More than 2,000 Hospitals, Including 131 in Florida, will be Penalized by Medicare for Excess Readmissions

The Health Law Firm

Lower Medicare reimbursement rates are coming in October of 2012, to 2,211 hospitals around the country, including 131 in Florida. This is allegedly due to excessive readmission rates in these hospitals between July 2008 and June 2011, according to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).

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Physician venture investor talks telehealth, digital therapeutics, Medicaid tech

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Norden is particularly passionate about funding companies focused on the Medicaid population – a traditionally tricky and often ignored area. You are passionate about funding companies focused on the Medicaid population – a traditionally tricky and often ignored area. Hospitals are faced with impossible decisions.

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Aspects of Social Determinants of Health: Collecting Data

Healthcare IT Today

Data can be spotty, according to Eye, who says for instance that data from Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) often lacks racial identifications. Zuskov points out that hospital data doesn’t represent the full population. The percentage is much higher in some areas.

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CMS Recovery Audit Prepayment Review (RAPR) Begins August 27, 2012

The Health Law Firm

On July 31, 2012, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced on its website that hospitals should brace themselves for prepayment audits beginning August 27, 2012. Indest III, J.D., Board Certified by The Florida Bar in Health Law. ” To see the official announcement from the CMS, click here.

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October-December 2021 State Regulatory Developments

New Jersey Healthcare Blog

The chapter applies to State psychiatric hospitals and DMHAS services. The change to the Division’s name reflects the merger of the former Division of Mental Health and the former Division of Addiction Services under the Fiscal Year 2010-2011 State Appropriations Act. Additionally, an outdated reference to N.J.A.C.