Bill of Health
FEBRUARY 7, 2022
By Matthew Bauer. During the COVID-19 pandemic, science has moved quickly, and the pace of disseminating research findings also has sped up. When science (and the media) moves this quickly, all involved — including scientists, journalists, and the general public — should exercise a greater degree of caution when interpreting research. Peer review vs.
Healthcare Dive
FEBRUARY 7, 2022
While earlier shortages were characterized by staff calling in sick and school closures, stress and burnout now are leading to rising turnover with many healthcare personnel at their breaking points.
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Compliance Now
FEBRUARY 7, 2022
By : Jessica Waltman, Principal, Forward Health Consulting. On February 4, 2022, additional guidance was issued on the federal mandate requiring health plans to provide over-the-counter (OTC) COVID-19 tests at no cost to participants. As we have previously shared, plans are allowed to limit the total amount reimbursable to participants for out-of-network tests to $12/test—but, only if the plans meet the requirements of the “direct coverage program” safe harbor.
Healthcare Dive
FEBRUARY 7, 2022
In the last half of 2021, the rate of patients who contracted COVID-19 in a hospital rose at only half the rate as overall COVID-19 admissions, likely due to increased vaccination rates, researchers said.
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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
FEBRUARY 7, 2022
SOC Telemed announced Thursday that it had entered into a definitive agreement to be acquired by Patient Square Capital, a healthcare investment firm. The completed deal will take the acute-care telemedicine vendor private, the companies said in a press release. "The last several years have revealed the critical ways that technology can expand access to care, improve clinician efficiency, and enable more cost-effective care delivery," Dr.
Healthcare Dive
FEBRUARY 7, 2022
Ultimately, the necessitated innovations of the last two years accelerated the development of a smarter, more resilient global infrastructure.
Health Care Compliance Brief brings together the best content for health law & compliance professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
Electronic Health Reporter
FEBRUARY 7, 2022
This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. There are a number of ways to generate business for your medical practice. You may be wondering what the best methods are and how you can get started. This blog post will go over a […]. The article Ways To Generate Business For Your Medical Practice appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.
HIT Consultant
FEBRUARY 7, 2022
What You Should Know: – Medable and CVS Health announced a strategic collaboration that will make clinical research more accessible to patients of all demographics. Using Medable’s decentralized trial platform available to CVS Health’s thousands of community MinuteClinics nationwide, most people will be within just five minutes of a decentralized clinical trial research site – finally busting the longstanding barrier to research for millions of Americans. – Where applicable, CVS Heal
Mobi Health News
FEBRUARY 7, 2022
Also: Emerging market-focused Reliance Health raises $40 million, insomnia startup Dawn Health rakes in a $1.8 million pre-seed and birth control startup Twentyeight Health adds more Spanish language support.
HIT Consultant
FEBRUARY 7, 2022
What You Should Know: – Koda Health , a Houston, TX-based advance directives platform empowering patients to take control of their healthcare journey raises $3.5M in seed funding led by Ecliptic Capital alongside participation from Headwater Ventures , Sigmas Capital , CRCM, and a number of angel investors. The funding will be used to double the size of Koda’s team over the next six months and expand operations to all 50 states. . – Most commonly found Advance Directives are no
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Healthcare IT Today
FEBRUARY 7, 2022
The following is a guest article by Mohan Giridharadas, CEO & Founder of LeanTaaS. Recently I heard a story from a leading cancer center. An elderly man in the final stages of his losing battle with cancer waited for an hour past the scheduled time for his infusion appointment. Finally, in frustration, his wife went […].
Center for Health Insurance Reform
FEBRUARY 7, 2022
Private health plans are now required to cover at-home over-the-counter COVID-19 tests. CHIR's Megan Houston and Rachel Swindle reviewed the coverage policies of 51 insurers to see how consumers can access this benefit. They found a number of plans with restrictions that go beyond what federal guidelines allow. Continue reading → The post Insurers are Now Covering At-Home COVID Tests but Implementation Varies appeared first on Center on Health Insurance Reforms.
Healthcare IT Today
FEBRUARY 7, 2022
For the 81st episode of the Healthcare IT Podcast, we’re talking about Surprise Billing and Health Equity. If you haven’t been following the surprise billing regulations, you may be surprised by them. They’re going to be a big deal for many organizations and have an important impact on revenue. In this episode we dive into […] For the 81st episode of the Healthcare IT Podcast, we’re talking about Surprise Billing and Health Equity.
Modern Healthcare
FEBRUARY 7, 2022
New federal guidelines clarify that insurers won't be punished for not providing direct-to-consumer tests during supply shortages.
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Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business. That’s what drove the five companies in this e-book to change their approach to analytics. Download this e-book to learn about the unique problems each company faced and how they achieved huge returns beyond expectation by embedding analytics into applications.
Mobi Health News
FEBRUARY 7, 2022
The company helps patients find clinical trials and works with pharma companies to limit barriers to enrollment.
Center for Health Insurance Reform
FEBRUARY 7, 2022
The Affordable Care Act’s health insurance marketplaces and consumer protections significantly improved the experience of purchasing individual health insurance, but consumers still face the difficult task of comparing a potentially overwhelming number of complicated benefit and network designs. A proposal in the Notice of Benefits and Payment Parameters for 2023 may improve this situation.
Mobi Health News
FEBRUARY 7, 2022
The company plans to use the new funding to grow its platform and build its science team.
Healthcare Compliance Blog
FEBRUARY 7, 2022
A Michigan woman has pled guilty to stealing government funds that were designated to aid medical providers in the treatment of patients suffering from COVID-19 and acknowledged using the money for her own personal use. These charges were the first criminal charges for the intentional misuse of funds distributed from the CARES Act Provider Relief Fund.
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FACIS® helps organizations mitigate patient and organizational risk. Maintaining compliance and safeguarding against fraud and abuse in today’s changing healthcare landscape can be challenging. Most healthcare organizations screen and monitor providers against the OIG but that’s only ONE of FACIS®’ primary sources. FACIS® pulls data for every taxonomy from the lowest level employee to the highest level licensed professional.
Mobi Health News
FEBRUARY 7, 2022
The new partnership is focused on expanding access to clinical trials for patients from diverse backgrounds.
KFF
FEBRUARY 7, 2022
The COVID-19 has exacted a significant toll on the global economy. This new analysis looks at the economic impacts in PEPFAR countries finding that these countries generally fared worse than their economic and regional peers. In addition, the projected economic growth in these countries remains below pre-pandemic levels.
Medisys Compliance
FEBRUARY 7, 2022
Medicare pays a physician for an Annual Wellness Visit (AWV) service. This visit is planned to develop or update a Personalized Prevention Plan (PPP) and perform a Health Risk Assessment (HRA) which is covered once every 12 months by Medicare. Medicare covers an AWV for all patients who aren’t within 12 months after the eligibility date for their first Medicare Part B benefit period and who didn’t have an IPPE or an AWV within the past 12 months.
Innovaare Compliance
FEBRUARY 7, 2022
Health plans (collectively, “plan sponsors”) that contract with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to provide health services to eligible Medicare beneficiaries are responsible for legal, contractual, and fiduciary obligations whether performed by the plan or those to whom the company delegates those obligations. When these functions are delegated to external entities, oversight of their performances is not optional.
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Healthcare IT Today
FEBRUARY 7, 2022
Jasper Health, a first-of-its-kind cancer care navigation and experience platform, today announced a $25 million Series A funding round led by General Catalyst. The round, which was joined by new and existing investors Human Capital, W Health Ventures, Redesign Health, and 7wireVentures, brings Jasper Health’s total funding to approximately $31 million.
Health Care Law Brief
FEBRUARY 7, 2022
On January 11, 2022, the Office of Inspector General (OIG) for the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued, without an opportunity for public notice and comment, [1] a Final Rule, amending its internal process for accepting and issuing advisory opinions. 87 Fed. Reg. 1367 (Jan. 11, 2022). In response to the industry’s “expressed frustration” with the regulatory provision precluding advisory opinion requests from being accepted and/or advisory opinions from being issued when the sa
Healthcare IT Today
FEBRUARY 7, 2022
Acquisition expands Glooko’s digital health capabilities with machine learning Glooko, Inc., a leading provider of remote patient monitoring and digital health solutions for diabetes and other chronic conditions today announced it has acquired xbird, a Berlin-based health AI company developing JITAI (Just In Time Adaptive Intervention) technologies to support patients and their providers in predicting […].
McGuire Wood
FEBRUARY 7, 2022
Broad Sky Partners has acquired Thomas Scientific from The Carlyle Group, according to a news release. Thomas Scientific , based in Swedesboro, N.J., and founded in 1900, is a provider of supplies to the healthcare, biotech, clinical diagnostics and life sciences industries. Broad Sky Partners , based in New York City, is a private equity firm that pursues primary control and strategic minority investments in middle market business services and consumer companies.
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The industry has seen an increasing pace of ransomware, zero-day, and remote-code execution attacks. Learn how to defend against these against these attacks in this eBook.
KFF
FEBRUARY 7, 2022
This issue brief assesses how the HIV policy landscapes in PEPFAR countries compare to international standards and recommendations. Additionally, we look at the HIV policy landscapes in PEPFAR countries as compared to peer countries. These comparisons are done at the overall, category, and policy indicator level.
Florida Health Care Law Firm
FEBRUARY 7, 2022
Enrollment periods for healthcare are exactly what they sound like — they are the only time of year when it is possible to sign up for health insurance coverage. It is important to find out the dates of the enrollment period for health insurance at work or through the federal government in order to not miss the opportunity to get affordable healthcare.
Hall Render
FEBRUARY 7, 2022
Our Health Care Real Estate Briefing is your comprehensive summary of weekly health care real estate highlights currently happening across the nation. 1. CMS issued guidance for skilled nursing facilities (“SNFs”) on how to deal with visitors during the pandemic. States can require visitors to be tested before entering the SNF so long as rapid testing is available and if a rapid test isn’t available, the visitor must be allowed to visit the resident so long as the visitor doesn’t rep
HIT Consultant
FEBRUARY 7, 2022
Micah Horner, Product Marketing Manager at TimeXtender. In the United States, healthcare costs make up more than 17% of GDP. The data that healthcare organizations generate, collect, and manage is massive, having an ever-growing impact on the industry. RBC Capital Markets, a global investment bank, estimates that approximately 30% of the world’s data volume is generated by the healthcare industry.
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