Healthcare Dive
APRIL 29, 2022
The report calls for improved oversight of MA and urges the CMS to update audit protocols and issue new guidance on medical necessity reviews performed by the plans.
Bill of Health
APRIL 29, 2022
By Marissa Wagner Mery. Long COVID exposes an often-unacknowledged facet of disability: that one is far more likely to develop a disability than be born with one. Estimates suggest that, at present, approximately 10 – 20 million Americans are now afflicted with the array of debilitating symptoms we now call Long COVID , which include fatigue, shortness of breath, and cognitive dysfunction or “brain fog.”.
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Healthcare Dive
APRIL 29, 2022
Bristol Myers paid $13 billion to acquire the drug's maker, MyoKardia, and expects it to become a blockbuster. But a tricky dosing regimen, as well as safety concerns, could challenge the pharmaceutical giant's lofty forecast.
MRO Compliance
APRIL 29, 2022
Follow the (Medical) Record: Elliott Noble-Holt and MediCopy. Host Don Hardwick interviews Elliott Noble-Holt, founder and CEO of MediCopy, now an MRO Company. Elliot talks about his journey to becoming an entrepreneur and founding MediCopy, as well as summarizing his new book, Bald Bearded Boss. HealthcareNOW Radio Podcast Network · Follow the (Medical) Record: Elliott Noble-Holt, founder and CEO of MediCopy.
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Healthcare Dive
APRIL 29, 2022
Political ire around direct contracting that came to a head earlier this year was rooted in a "real lack of understanding," one CEO of a physician group said Friday at NAACOS' spring conference.
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
APRIL 29, 2022
A study of 40.7 million commercially insured adults in the United States who sought care via telehealth found contrasting patterns of follow-up care between those with chronic conditions and those with acute clinical conditions. The research, which was published this week in JAMA Network Open , assessed outcomes of care two weeks after patients' initial ambulatory encounters.
Health Care Compliance Brief brings together the best content for health law & compliance professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
APRIL 29, 2022
Renton, Washington-based Providence knew healthcare was becoming more consumer-driven and believed that meant digital needed to play a role in how care was accessed and delivered. THE PROBLEM. But, like many health systems, Providence needed to dramatically evolve its digital capabilities to not just meet but exceed customers' expectations of accessing care where and when they needed it.
Healthcare Dive
APRIL 29, 2022
Wright Lassiter will succeed Lloyd Dean, who announced his intent to retire last year, setting off a nationwide executive search.
HIT Consultant
APRIL 29, 2022
What You Should Know: – Flare Capital Partners , a Boston-based healthcare technology venture capital firm closes its third fund with $350M, which follows up on its prior two funds raised in July 2019 and the inaugural fund raised in April 2015, respectively. – The most recent fund, establishes Flare Capital Partners as one of the largest, independent, early-stage venture capital firms dedicated to healthcare technology.
Mobi Health News
APRIL 29, 2022
Former vice president Matthew Truebe said he was fired after raising concerns about the company's prescribing practices, alleging Cerebral aimed to prescribe stimulants to all its ADHD patients to increase retention.
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Colington Consulting was established in 2013 and helps organizations achieve HIPAA compliance and ensures clients stay current with the latest enforcement trends. We provide a full range of HIPAA compliance services and consulting. What separates us from our competitors is our knowledge of HIPAA compliance regulations and their application to each of our client’s particular scenarios and requirements.
Healthcare IT Today
APRIL 29, 2022
The following is a guest article by Ryan Clark, VP of Client Solutions at Optimize Health. Remote patient monitoring (RPM) has the power to fundamentally change how healthcare providers care for and engage with patients. RPM provides a unique opportunity to collect, monitor, and trend data on a daily basis, so you are no longer limited […].
Mobi Health News
APRIL 29, 2022
In one large-scale study, mean engagement with the app lasted only 4.1 days.
Healthcare IT Today
APRIL 29, 2022
Behavioral Health is in an interesting space since it’s suffered through many stigmas and missed out on many reimbursement and stimulus efforts that have been available to medical care. That seems like it’s starting to change as many realize the importance of treating mental health and overcoming the past stigmas. However, behavioral health still suffers […].
Modern Healthcare
APRIL 29, 2022
Despite majority favorability among U.S. adults overall for measures like mask mandates, public health experts said divided opinions among racial groups reflect not only the unequal impact of the pandemic on people of color but also apathy among some white Americans.
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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.
HIPAA Journal
APRIL 29, 2022
The Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange (WEDI) has responded to the request for information from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and has made several recommendations for improving the NIST cybersecurity framework and supply chain risk management guidance to help healthcare organizations deal with some of the most pressing threats facing the sector.
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
APRIL 29, 2022
Enterprise Taxonomy: Node settings: Exclude from Accelerate RSS feed
HIPAA Journal
APRIL 29, 2022
The Five Eyes security agencies, an alliance of intelligence agencies from Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States, have issued a joint advisory about the 15 vulnerabilities in software and operating systems that were most commonly targeted by nation-state hackers and cybercriminal organizations in 2021. Throughout 2021, malicious cyber actors targeted newly disclosed critical software vulnerabilities in attacks against a wide range of industry sectors, includin
Mobi Health News
APRIL 29, 2022
Dr. Liz Kwo outlines the landscape of the RPM space.
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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.
Center for Health Insurance Reform
APRIL 29, 2022
As many as 16 million people are expected to lose Medicaid once the COVID-19 public health emergency ends. One-third of these could be eligible for ACA marketplace plans. In their latest To the Point blog for the Commonwealth Fund, Sabrina Corlette and Maanasa Kona discuss strategies that marketplaces can deploy to help reduce the potential coverage loss and help consumers make a smooth transition.
Healthcare Compliance Blog
APRIL 29, 2022
On April 25, 2022, a former owner of multiple Texas adult day care centers was sentenced to 60 months in prison and ordered to pay $1,784,817.96 in restitution for her role in healthcare fraud, wire fraud, and theft of government funds. The money judgment represents the proceeds that she obtained as part of her scheme. Court documents show that between 2008 and 2016 the former owner defrauded the Texas Medicaid program by billing for items and services that had not been provided to the clients o
Healthcare IT Today
APRIL 29, 2022
We like to regularly feature a healthcare IT job that might be of interest to readers. Today, we’re featuring the IT Infrastructure Administrator position that was recently posted on Healthcare IT Central. This position was posted by Colorado Access and is in Colorado. Here’s a description of the position: Colorado Access is looking for an […].
Innovaare Compliance
APRIL 29, 2022
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) launched a new cycle of program audits in February 2022. Multiple Medicare Advantage Prescription Drug Plans (MAPDs) have already received notification of their selection. CMS anticipates a total of 25 plan organizations to be audited in this cycle. Plan sponsors that have gone through program audits previously are well advised to review the new features in this year’s audit protocols (CMS 10717; OMB 0938 NEW) and incorporate them into pract
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Compliancy Group
APRIL 29, 2022
One of the trendy marketing terms being used by equipment and service providers in the security space is “HIPAA Compliant Environment.” It’s usually used to describe items like highly secure protocols, including operational environment controls, workload (VM and application) hardening, data at rest and in transit protection, identity, and access management.
HIT Consultant
APRIL 29, 2022
What You Should Know: – HSBlox , a technology company empowering healthcare organizations with the tools and support to deliver value-based care (VBC) successfully and sustainably, today announced Release 3.5 of its CureAlign platform. – CureAlign enables healthcare organizations to administer value-based programs, including network build-out, contract administration, permissioned data exchange and payment.
Hanys
APRIL 29, 2022
New York hospital and health system leaders joined HANYS at AHA's annual meeting this week and met with Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer and Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand. We discussed our federal priorities , including supporting and strengthening the healthcare workforce, fiscal relief and supportive funding for healthcare providers, and funding care transformation.
HIT Consultant
APRIL 29, 2022
What You Should Know: The Milken Institute Center for the Future of Aging today released a report to identify actionable recommendations to better integrate health and home care through technology. These recommendations were gathered from a convening of stakeholders representing health care, technology, government and policy, research and academia, philanthropy, advocacy, and community-based organizations.
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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.
Florida Health Care Law Firm
APRIL 29, 2022
Many physicians have come to realize the synergy and profitability of establishing a medspa business for their patients. Done right, it can be the perfect compliment. And being “off insurance” is a nice pivot for many physicians, especially those in the cosmetic space (or even many OB/GYNs). While most physicians starting a medspa already understand about the scope of practice and physician supervision issues for mid-level practitioners, most don’t seriously consider the issue of
Hanys
APRIL 29, 2022
The guidance addresses frequently asked questions on the regulations, which go into effect July 1, that require health plans to release machine-readable files of their in-network negotiated rates and out-of-network allowed amounts.
Medisys Compliance
APRIL 29, 2022
Its quite common to receive a request for medical records from insurance carrier who is going to conduct an audit on your claims. Sometimes, in such external/payer audits, practices receive audit results like, medical necessity not supported; records include conflicting data; or notes are cloned. Audit report also says practice owes them huge amount of money due to ‘overpaid claims’ and they are putting on pre-payment review until things improve.
Hanys
APRIL 29, 2022
The CDC Health Alert highlighted widely available and accessible treatment options for non-hospitalized COVID-19 patients and recommended against certain uses. Among those, systemic corticosteroids are not recommended to treat patients with mild to moderate COVID-19 who do not require supplemental oxygen; patients who are receiving dexamethasone or another corticosteroid for other indications should continue therapy for their underlying conditions as directed by their healthcare providers.
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