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IRS Publishes Additional Guidance for HDHPs on COVID-19 Preventive Care

Compliance Now

This means that groups with calendar year plans will need to begin subjecting such services to their HDHP’s deductible once their plan renews in 2025. In contrast, groups with non-calendar year HDHPs must begin applying the plan’s deductible to COVID-19 testing and treatment services once their plan renews in 2024.

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Consumers’ Trust In Pharmacists As Providers Grows Along with Omnichannel Health Care

Jane Sarashon

Millions of people received COVID-19 vaccinations from pharmacies in their communities, close to home, experiencing high levels of patient satisfaction. By 2025, some 47% of healthcare workers plan to leave their positions by 2025, asserted in a report from Definitive Healthcare published in October 2022.

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Skilled Nursing Update: CMS Finalizes Changes to SNF Value-Based Purchasing, SNF Quality Reporting Program and Civil Monetary Penalties

Hall Render

The Final Rule completes the creation of: Discharge Function Score (known as the “DC Function”) measure beginning with the FY 2025. CMS is also adopting the COVID Vaccine: Percent of Patients/Residents Who Are Up to Date (known as the “Patient/Resident COVID-19 Vaccine”) measure beginning with the FY 2026.

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Skilled Nursing Update: CMS Proposes Changes to SNF Value-Based Purchasing, SNF Quality Reporting Program and Civil Monetary Penalties

Hall Render

The Proposed Rule proposes the creation of: Discharge Function Score (known as the “DC Function”) measure beginning with the fiscal year 2025. CMS is also proposing the adoption of the COVID Vaccine: Percent of Patients/Residents Who Are Up to Date (known as the “Patient/Resident COVID-19 Vaccine”) measure beginning with the fiscal year 2026.

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Overcoming the Healthcare Staffing Shortage Through Back-Office Automation

HIT Consultant

Today’s healthcare staffing shortage, fueled by the COVID-19 pandemic but years in the making, has left many hospitals and health systems scrambling. To date, the shortage of front-line healthcare workers has received most of the attention, and for good reason: By 2025, the U.S. health system.

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Reimagining The Future of Pharmacovigilance (PV): Regulations, Tech, Public Perceptions

HIT Consultant

For example, in 2021, in Europe, the number of reports submitted directly by patients and consumers through the NCAs and MAHs (781,632) saw a four-fold increase (+443%) compared to the previous year, largely driven by the reports for COVID-19 vaccines 1.

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February 2022 State Regulatory Developments

New Jersey Healthcare Blog

For 2023 the healthcare cost growth benchmark is 3.5%, for 2024 3.2%, for 2025 3%, for 2026 2.8%, for 2027 2.8%. Below are the most recent health care related regulatory developments as published in the New Jersey Register in February 2022: On February 7, 2022, at 54 N.J.R. 199(b), the Office of the Governor restated Executive Order No.