HIPAA Journal

JUNE 26, 2023

When the Secretary issues a Notice of HIPAA Enforcement Discretion, it only applies to the emergency area for the emergency period specified in the public health emergency declaration, and only to hospitals that have initiated a disaster protocol.

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Health Populi

JUNE 23, 2023

If you live in Massachusetts, Hawaii, and New Hampshire, you win a kind of state lottery for public health and well-being, based on this year’s read of the 2023 Scorecard on State Health System Performance from The Commonwealth Fund. states ranked by a mash-up of health system indicators.

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COVID-19 Health Outcomes Medicaid Medicaid 133

Hall Render

JULY 18, 2022

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) has given itself an extra year to review and assess skilled nursing facility proposed regulations issued in 2019. Since the beginning of the COVID?19 Areas Addressed in 2019 Proposed Rule. Background. Extra Time.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 19, 2020

A bipartisan group of senators on Thursday introduced legislation to inventory telehealth programs nationwide and evaluate ways to plan for public health emergencies using virtual care. " “Telehealth has been instrumental in connecting patients and health care professionals during COVID-19.

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Health Populi

JUNE 22, 2022

In previous years, of course, the coronavirus had not played a role in quantifying certain aspects of health system performance. Here for 2022, the second chart tracks the “stark toll” of the COVID-19 pandemic and the excess deaths experienced for each state since the pandemic emerged in February 2020.

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Health Populi

JUNE 27, 2022

Declines in preventive care services like cancer screenings and blood glucose testing concern employers, whose continued to cover health insurance for employees during the pandemic. from the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2019 to 1.29 But flat growth is expected for 2022, Castlight forecasts.

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HIPAA Journal

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

The Government Accountability Office (GAO) recently conducted a review of Medicare telehealth services provided during the COVID-19 pandemic, when a waiver was in place that greatly expanded access to telehealth and virtual visits. Between April and December 2019, 5 million Medicare telehealth visits were conducted.

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Medicare Medicare COVID-19 HIPAA 76

Provider Trust

JANUARY 25, 2024

Ensuring the Financial Integrity of HHS Programs In fiscal year (FY) 2022, improper payments within healthcare programs like Medicare, Medicaid, and Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) were estimated at a staggering $131.6 With Medicaid, the challenges are equally formidable.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Despite the end of the public health emergency, individuals and informed political leaders will continue to work with pharmacies to continue access to vital care for individuals in need of medication for mental health because mental health is part of overall health. Your third prediction concerns medication.

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COVID-19 Public Health Licensing FDA 155

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Caravan Health President and CEO Tim Gronniger previously was chief of staff and director of delivery system reform at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Caravan Health is a privately held company formed to create sustainable methodologies for health systems to excel in value-based care.

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Medicare Medicare COVID-19 Telemedicine 186

Med-Net Compliance

AUGUST 4, 2022

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) indicate that individuals who are aged 65 and older or nursing home residents are at a higher risk for severe illness from COVID-19. In addition, 8 out of 10 COVID-19 deaths reported in the United States in 2020 were adults aged 65 years and older.

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Nursing Homes Nurses COVID-19 Medicaid 59

Health Populi

JUNE 6, 2021

On the consumer demand side, patients’ growing use of telehealth in the COVID-19 pandemic along with more frequent digital contacts with health plans bolstered member satisfaction, discovered by t he J.D. Commercial Member Health Plan Study. Power 2021 U.S.

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HIT Consultant

APRIL 4, 2023

The following key trends from Rock Health’s report are a review of the venture, banking, and policy waves breaking within digital health, coupled with insights regarding the volatility of the modern-day regulatory landscape, how the financial market seems different for everyone, and how small-scale startups have it the hardest.

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Healthcare Law Today

JANUARY 20, 2022

While the opioid crisis has been a declared public health emergency (PHE) since October 26, 2017, overdose deaths remain at an all-time high and have only been exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. COVID-19: DEA and SAMHSA Guidance for Treating Opioid Use Disorders via Telehealth. What’s next?

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Medicare Medicare COVID-19 Public Health 52

AIHC

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Compliance Considerations for Best Outcomes Written in collaboration with the AIHC Volunteer Education Committee Delivering mental health services via telehealth has increased since the COVID-19 pandemic. Behavioral telehealth may also be referred to as telebehavioral health, telemental health, telepsychiatry, or telepsychology.

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COVID-19 Telemedicine Compliance Informed Consent 59

HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

As the COVID-19 pandemic has proved, having sufficient hospital bed capacity can mean the difference between life or death. Federally funded community health centers are critical, especially in underserved communities. In 2019, nearly 30 million people across the U.S. visited an HRSA health center.

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Healthcare Law Blog

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

In response, CMS extended the comment period on its proposed RADV changes and did not finalize the RADV provisions when it issued the final rule on April 16, 2019. Generally, the Social Security Act (the Act) requires CMS to publish a Medicare final rule no later than three years after the publication date of the proposed rule.

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Medicare Medicare COVID-19 Public Health 52

Healthcare Law Today

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

” This new reimbursement is intended to further the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ (CMS) objectives in its 2022 Behavioral Health Strategy , with a particular focus on improving access to substance use disorder (SUD) prevention, treatment, and recovery services. Want to Learn More?

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Med-Net Compliance

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

The OIG contacted that chain’s corporate office regarding the 24 nursing homes, and requested that they provide documentation related to infection prevention and control and emergency preparedness program policies and procedures that were in effect from January 2019 through May 2020.

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Nursing Homes Nurses COVID-19 Medicaid 59

Kaiser Health News

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

The penalties — a 1% reduction in Medicare payments over 12 months — are based on the experiences of Medicare patients discharged from the hospital between July 2018 and the end of 2019, before the pandemic began in earnest. “It’s very hard to capture patient safety with the surveillance methods we currently have,” he said.

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Medicare Medicare Hospitals COVID-19 116

Hall Render

JUNE 10, 2022

CMS updates Medicaid eligibility standards. COVID-19 rising in Alabama, experts believe cases are higher than reported. How drones are innovating Alabama’s health care industry. Alaska’s Covid-19 emergency order to end July 1. is finalist to serve as Denver Health CEO. CALIFORNIA.

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COVID-19 Nursing Homes Nurses Hospitals 40

Jane Sarashon

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Patients and health plan members continue evolving into medical bill payers, with their homes and budgets baked into the concept. Connectivity as a social determinant of health. These trends began to take hold in the U.S. As the pandemic revealed the risk of food security in U.S.

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HIPAA Journal

MAY 29, 2023

OCR can increase funding through its enforcement actions, but despite OCR more than doubling the number of settlements and CMPs in 2022 compared to 2017-2019 levels, OCR had a 92.6% Now that the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency has been declared over, that period of enforcement discretion is due to terminate.

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HIPAA Compliance Due Diligence COVID-19 94

Healthcare Law Blog

APRIL 6, 2022

On April 1, 2022 , the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) announced states may seek to extend Medicaid postpartum coverage from 60 days to one year through a new state plan option offered by the American Rescue Plan Act (“ARPA”). In states that have not expanded Medicaid, however, many postpartum women lose coverage.

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Medicaid Medicaid ACA Public Health 52

Hall Render

JULY 14, 2023

On Friday, June 20, 2023, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) posted a pre-publication copy of the Calendar Year (“CY”) 2024 Home Health Prospective Payment System Rate Update (“PPS Rule”), which has since been published in the Federal Register and is currently open for comment. Speech Therapy 0.21

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Medicare Medicare Payment Systems Governance 52

Health Populi

OCTOBER 12, 2020

This funding record (“already” before year-end, tallied by the third quarter as Rock Health notes) was driven by “mega”-deals accelerated during the public health crisis of COVID-19. based digital health start-ups adding up $9.4 billion, up 22% from 2019. This is $1.2

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Bill of Health

JANUARY 10, 2022

As the National Academy of Sciences explained in a 2019 report , these two medications reduce risk of death by up to 50 percent and are associated with numerous other benefits, including improved quality of life, reduced rates of use of other opioids, and reduced risk of contracting illnesses including HIV and hepatitis C.

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Hall Render

AUGUST 19, 2022

Amazon to offer behavioral health services through Ginger partnership. CDC ends social distancing, COVID-19 quarantines. CDC, amid criticism for COVID-19 response, plans reorganization as public health threats grow. Campaign to boost Alaska’s health care workforce gets a nearly $10 million infusion.

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COVID-19 Nursing Homes US Department of Health and Human Services Nurses 40

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 6, 2020

In the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic, connected health and RPM are more important than ever, because they enable physicians to monitor patients without having to come into contact with them, thus preventing the spread of the novel coronavirus.

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COVID-19 FDA Hospitals Elder Care 198

Health Populi

MARCH 28, 2021

It’s timely, then, to re-visit a research paper on subsidizing fruits and vegetables from a March 2019 issue of PLOS as an introduction to a new initiative growing out of The Center for Health Law and Policy Innovation of Harvard Law School (CHLPI) on produce prescriptions. health citizens and together consume 25% of the U.S.

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Medicaid Medicaid COVID-19 Medicare 166

Hall Render

MARCH 31, 2023

in 2022, survey finds Senate votes to end COVID-19 national emergency Why are 600+ rural hospitals at risk of closing? in 2022, survey finds Senate votes to end COVID-19 national emergency Why are 600+ rural hospitals at risk of closing? buys industrial property in Rancho Cordova for $5.12

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US Department of Health and Human Services Nursing Homes Nurses COVID-19 40

C&M Health Law

AUGUST 10, 2022

On July 29, 2022, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a final rule that updates Medicare payment policies and rates for skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) and enacts changes to the SNF Quality Reporting Program and the SNF Value-Based Purchasing Program beginning in FY 2023. SNF Payment Rates and PDPM Adjustments.

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Medicare Medicare COVID-19 Nursing Homes 52

AIHC

JANUARY 28, 2022

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) distributes a prospectively determined amount of uncompensated care payments to “Medicare disproportionate share hospitals” or better known as “DSH.” This is calculated based on the hospital’s relative share of uncompensated care nationally. In this rule, CMS will distribute roughly $8.3

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New Jersey Healthcare Blog

JULY 22, 2022

509(a), Governor Murphy issued an Executive Order updating and clarifying timeframes for requiring covered workers at health care facilities and high-risk congregate settings to be up-to-date with their COVID-19 vaccinations, including having received a booster shot. 3:19-cv-14228-BRM-LHG (D.N.J. See Executive Order No.

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COVID-19 Vaccine Licensing COVID-19 Public Health 40

Hall Render

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

On November 1, 2023, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) posted a pre-publication copy of the Calendar Year (“CY”) 2024 Home Health Prospective Payment System Rate Update Final Rule (“2024 Final Rule”), which has since been filed in the Federal Register. 7,589 2019 5,871 79.3% 7,872 2018 5,851 77.1%

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AIHC

MARCH 28, 2022

trillion government-wide from fiscal years 2003 through 2019. trillion COVID-19 response legislation, and making recommendations about how to improve its effectiveness in dealing with public health issues and the economy. According to the U.S. For example, the GAO states that they identified about $77.6

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Kaiser Health News

APRIL 8, 2022

Prescription drug costs for California’s massive Medicaid program were draining the state budget, so in 2019 Gov. The new Medicaid drug program debuted this January, with a private company in charge. Centene was already a big player in state Medicaid drug programs — but one with a questionable record. But on Jan.

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