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COVID-19 Is Ushering in a Consumer Revolution in Healthcare

Healthcare IT Today

The following is a guest article by Terry Rowinski, President & CEO of Health Payment Systems, Inc. We’re now several months into navigating our next normal.

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Why Transparency Is No Longer Optional In Medical Billing

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. By Terry Rowinski, president & CEO, Health Payment Systems, Inc. Almost a year into the COVID-19 pandemic, the stress surrounding the rising number of cases and the ensuing economic recession reminds high. Illegal copying is prohibited.

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Hospital at Home: Prospects and Challenges, and Learnings from Best Buy Health

Health Populi

Clinicians from Scripps Research and Johns Hopkins School of Medicine collaborated on this work, calling out the relatively fast adoption of HaH programs during the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic. ” Thus the call for value-based payment which can, when well-designed, align the four stakeholders’ interests.

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Bonus Features – August 14, 2022 – Payers and providers look at Big Tech differently, half of physicians and nurses don’t think their orgs are headed in the right direction, and more

Healthcare IT Today

This article will be a weekly roundup of interesting stories, product announcements, new hires, partnerships, research studies, awards, sales, and more. Patient engagement vendor GetWell reported that patients diagnosed with COVID-19 using the company’s care management product had a 32% lower hospitalization rate.

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Nursing Home Update: CMS Unwinds Vaccine Mandate and More Regulations as Public Health Emergency End Nears

Hall Render

COVID Regulations Impacted CMS issued several interim final rules during the PHE. COVID Testing Requirements. COVID Vaccine Education. COVID Staff Vaccine. COVID Reporting Requirements. For this alert, “nursing homes” refers to skilled nursing facilities (often known as “SNFs”).

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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

On August 7, 2023, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) released a final rule (“Final Rule”) that updated Medicare payment policies and rates for skilled nursing facilities (“SNFs”) under the Skilled Nursing Facility Prospective Payment System (“SNF PPS”) for fiscal year (“FY”) 2024.

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Key Areas of Focus for Skilled Nursing Facilities as the Public Health Emergency Ends

Hall Render

On January 30, 2023, the Biden Administration announced the COVID public health emergency (“PHE”) will expire and end on May 11, 2023. COVID Regulations and the PHE CMS issued several interim final rules during the PHE. COVID Testing Requirements. COVID Vaccine Education. COVID Staff Vaccine.