Healthcare Dive

JULY 1, 2022

UnitedHealthcare, Anthem and Centene are among the major payers already hosting machine-readable cost files onsite.

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Bill of Health

JULY 1, 2022

By? Ameet Sarpatwari , Alexander Egilman , Aviva Wang, and Aaron S. Kesselheim. Each month, members of the Program On Regulation, Therapeutics, And Law (PORTAL) review the peer-reviewed medical literature to identify interesting empirical studies, policy analyses, and editorials on health law and policy issues. Below are the citations for papers identified from the month of May.

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Healthcare Dive

JULY 1, 2022

Justices Clarence Thomas, Neil Gorsuch and Samuel Alito dissented in the court’s decision regarding the New York lawsuit.

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Electronic Health Reporter

JULY 1, 2022

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. Today, technology has become a part of day-to-day life. It has infiltrated virtually every industry, and this includes healthcare. The adoption of modern tools has considerably boosted the sector’s productivity, provided a competitive edge, and […].

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HIPAA Journal

JULY 1, 2022

Senators Ron Wyden (D-OR), Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), and Cory Booker (D-NJ) have written to two leading mental health app providers and demanded answers about their data collection and sharing practices. There have been multiple reports that the mental health apps provided by Talkspace and BetterHelp are collecting, mining, and disseminating private client information to third parties, including big tech firms such as Google and Facebook.

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Mobi Health News

JULY 1, 2022

However, the review noted some concerns still need to be addressed, like data privacy and security.

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Digital Health News

JULY 1, 2022

This Digital Health News industry round up includes a new imaging solution for South West London Acute Provider Collaborative and Accurx's take on PIFU.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 1, 2022

This week was the HFMA Annual conference in Denver. It brings together a great community of healthcare financial professionals with a lot of healthcare CFOs and revenue cycle management pros. HFMA events are always interesting because it gives you a view into the heart of how we pay for healthcare and the incredible complexities associated with it.

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Digital Health News

JULY 1, 2022

Patients can download the C19YRS app to their mobile device to help self-manage their symptoms and also to provide data to their health professionals. .

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Electronic Health Reporter

JULY 1, 2022

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Paul Boal, vice president of innovation, Amitech Solutions. Consumerization has finally entered the healthcare realm. Patients and insurance payers don’t just want a good care experience from hospital systems; they want clarity in the […]. The article How Hospitals Can Progress In Price Transparency Compliance appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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Digital Health News

JULY 1, 2022

The University of Manchester is trialling an app that collects data from patients who have had psychosis and uses it to predict a relapse.

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Mobi Health News

JULY 1, 2022

The study found that greater use of telehealth among patients with severe mental illness did not affect medication adherence.

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Med-Net Compliance

JULY 1, 2022

Fifteen Texas doctors have agreed to pay a total of $2,831,280 to resolve False Claims Act allegations involving illegal kickbacks in violation of the Anti-Kickback Statute and Stark Law, and to cooperate with the Department of Justice’s investigations of and litigation against other parties. The settlements resolve allegations that fifteen Texas doctors violated the Anti-Kickback Statute and the Stark Law by receiving thousands of dollars in remuneration from nine management service organizatio

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Modern Healthcare

JULY 1, 2022

Rural Emergency Hospitals would need to meet criteria including average lengths of stay of 24 hours or shorter.

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HealthIT Answers

JULY 1, 2022

Since the start of the new year we have been especially busy here at Healthcare Now Radio searching for new podcasts our listeners would enjoy with engaging, relevant content. This week's Friday at Five highlights five such podcasts that we have welcomed to our network in the past few months. The post Friday at Five – Newest Podcasts on HCNR appeared first on Health IT Answers.

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Compliancy Group

JULY 1, 2022

Can HIPAA violations result in jail time? While jail time for HIPAA violations is rare, it does occur. . An Iowa man who pleaded guilty to a pair of counts related to HIPAA violations will spend the next 27 months in federal prison following his sentencing in Des Moines. Dustin James Ortiz, 49, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to wrongfully obtain and disclose individually identifiable health information and wrongfully obtaining individually identifiable health information after conspiring with a th

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 1, 2022

Happy Friday everyone! I hope you’re ready for a great holiday weekend as we head into the 4th of July. Stay safe and enjoy yourself. As we head into the weekend, here’s a few funny things we found that will hopefully brighten your day and start your weekend off right. another @DGlaucomflecken therapy session. part 1 pic.twitter.com/9Z2dMzEPW1. — traumadramamd (@TraumaDramaMD) June 18, 2022.

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Healthcare Law Blog

JULY 1, 2022

On June 24, 2022, the United States Supreme Court issued its opinion on Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization , No. 19-1392 (2022), holding that the United States Constitution provides no basis for a right to abortion. In its opinion, the Court further states that the right to abortion is not in the text of the Constitution, not a part of this nation’s fundamental history or concept of ordered liberty, that abortion restrictions are subject to rational basis review, and that the authority

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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.

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Provider Trust

JULY 1, 2022

NASHVILLE, TN (July 2, 2022): In 2010, ProviderTrust, Inc. was founded with a vision to simplify healthcare compliance. Together its managing partners, Chris Redhage, Michael Rosen, and Andrew Luers launched Passport, an automated exclusion monitoring and license verification solution for health systems. Today, ProviderTrust celebrates its 12-year anniversary.

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Hanys

JULY 1, 2022

The new agreement, advocated for by HANYS, could free up hundreds of millions in COVID-19 relief for member hospitals with costs like transportation, child care and housing now eligible for reimbursement. We thank U.S. Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer for his advocacy securing this flexibility for New York hospitals.

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Hall Render

JULY 1, 2022

Beginning July 1, 2022, the Departments of Health and Human Services, Labor and Treasury (the “Departments”) will begin enforcing the Transparency in Coverage Final Rule (“TiC Rule”) broadly requiring non-grandfathered health plans, including self-insured plans, to publish the price of nearly every health care service negotiated with providers. The TiC Rule continues federal efforts to promote greater health care price transparency for consumers and comes more than a year and a half after hospit

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Hanys

JULY 1, 2022

Antibiotic stewardship update: The CDC perspective. July 7. What does it mean to recognize risk? July 7. Medicare home health proposed rule webinar. July 11. Standing membership call. July 12. HANYS' fiscal policy update call. July 14. Preventing and responding to aggressive patient behavior, part two. July 21.

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Hall Render

JULY 1, 2022

In Becerra v. Empire Health Found. , the Supreme Court upheld CMS’s decision to include Medicare exhaust and secondary payor days in the Medicare Fraction of the Disproportionate Share Hospital (“DSH”) statute. Although a loss for the hospitals in Empire , the ruling may support hospitals seeking to add SSI days to the numerator of the Medicare Fraction in ongoing and future appeals.[1].

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Hanys

JULY 1, 2022

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Becker's Health IT

JULY 1, 2022

A cybercriminal group is taking responsibility for an alleged ransomware attack on a Missouri hospital system, legal news website JDSupra reported June 30.

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Hanys

JULY 1, 2022

The FAQ provides information on the applicability of NSA, balance billing and cost-sharing protections and notice and consent provisions.

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Becker's Health IT

JULY 1, 2022

Baton Rouge (La.) General Medical Center had to switch to paper record-keeping after a cyberattack brought its EHR system offline June 28, WAFB reported.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 1, 2022

PicnicHealth , a patient-centered health technology company, today announced the closing of a $60 million Series C financing led by new investor B Capital Group. Existing investors Felicis Ventures and Amplify Partners also joined the round, bringing the total PicnicHealth has raised to more than $100 million. The company also announced plans to build 30 new patient-centered real-world data cohorts, and the addition of Adam Seabrook, Partner at B Capital Group, to the PicnicHealth board of direc

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Healthcare Dive

JULY 1, 2022

Regulators sent a letter to Tennessee requesting the state submit a new financing and budget neutrality model based on a traditional per member per month cap, instead of an aggregate cap, among other changes.

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Hall Render

JULY 1, 2022

NATIONAL. 90% of Skilled Nursing Pros Say Reimbursement Will Suffer Due to Labor Issues. 16 healthcare responses to Roe v. Wade reversal. Biden officials to keep private the names of hospitals where patients contracted Covid. CMS Announces OCM Successor, but Gap Year Remains for Oncology Practices. CMS releases updated Phase 3 guidance. Court revives block of vaccine mandate for federal workers.

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