Federal regulators nix contested language in surprise billing final rule
Healthcare Dive
AUGUST 22, 2022
The final rule removes the earlier requirement that arbiters must first presume that the median in-network rate is the appropriate payment.
Healthcare Dive
AUGUST 22, 2022
The final rule removes the earlier requirement that arbiters must first presume that the median in-network rate is the appropriate payment.
Bill of Health
AUGUST 22, 2022
By Juan M. Hincapie-Castillo and Amie J. Goodin. Policies to mitigate the drug overdose crisis continue to fall short, as evidenced by increasing rates of opioid-involved overdoses and deaths in the United States. The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated this overdose crisis , and efforts are urgently needed to mitigate harm. Individuals who have problematic opioid use are most frequently involved in opioid-involved overdoses, meaning that the use of a prescription opioid, or much more commonly a n
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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
AUGUST 22, 2022
The COVID-19 pandemic brought telemedicine technology and services to a mainstream audience – like it or not. As it turned out, studies have shown that a great many patients and providers like the flexibility that telemedicine affords. Liz Fobare is vice president of product management at Kareo, a vendor of cloud-based clinical and practice management software for independent healthcare practices and billing companies.
Compliance Now
AUGUST 22, 2022
By: Jennifer Berman, CEO, MZQ Consulting. On Friday, August 19, 2022, the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Treasury (the Departments) issued updated FAQs addressing the No Surprises Act and the Transparency in Coverage Rules. These FAQs directly address an issue related to the Transparency in Coverage Rules (the TiC Rules) that has been causing consternation for employers across the country—are they really required to post a link to their machine-readable files on their publ
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Generative AI is upending the way product developers & end-users alike are interacting with data. Despite the potential of AI, many are left with questions about the future of product development: How will AI impact my business and contribute to its success? What can product managers and developers expect in the future with the widespread adoption of AI?
Healthcare It News
AUGUST 22, 2022
WHY IT MATTERS. Along with creating a HIPAA-certified master patient index, the universal identity platform will allow SCHIO to integrate social determinants of health into patient records. SCHIO participates in a community information exchange, Together We Care, a platform designed to compile data on SDOH and bridge the gap on care coordination in Santa Cruz.
Healthcare Dive
AUGUST 22, 2022
UnitedHealth has submitted the highest offer for the Dallas, Texas-based home health firm at $30 per share, and Amazon's offer is close behind, according to the report.
Health Care Compliance Brief brings together the best content for health law & compliance professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
Healthcare Dive
AUGUST 22, 2022
Fauci will leave his post as the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and as the president’s chief medical advisor.
Compliance Now
AUGUST 22, 2022
By: Jennifer Berman, CEO, MZQ Consulting. On Friday, August 19, 2022, the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Treasury (the Departments) issued updated FAQs addressing the No Surprises Act and the Transparency in Coverage Rules. These FAQs directly address an issue related to the Transparency in Coverage Rules (the TiC Rules) that has been causing consternation for employers across the country—are they really required to post a link to their machine-readable files on their publ
Healthcare Dive
AUGUST 22, 2022
Lydia Jumonville has been tapped to lead the Utah-based health system following the departure of former chief executive Marc Harrison.
HealthIT Answers
AUGUST 22, 2022
By Chris Emper - The heavily anticipated CMS 2023 Proposed Medicare Physician Payment Rule is a whopping 2,066 pages long and includes numerous provisions that will impact physician groups next year. The post What You Need to Know about CMS’s 2023 Proposed Medicare Physician Payment Rule appeared first on Health IT Answers.
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Feeling overwhelmed by medical waste regulations? This comprehensive guide unravels the complexities of medical waste disposal, ensuring you stay compliant and prioritize safety. Inside you'll find: Clear categorization: Learn to precisely classify medical waste for proper handling and disposal. Labeling & Storage: Discover best practices for clear labeling and secure storage of medical waste.
Healthcare Dive
AUGUST 22, 2022
The system said it is struggling with workforce shortages at a time when its hospitals are operating at near capacity.
Mobi Health News
AUGUST 22, 2022
The newly public company, now trading on Nasdaq under the ticker symbol "AKLI," will use the proceeds from the transaction to launch EndeavorRx, its video game-like digital therapeutic for children with ADHD.
Center for Health Insurance Reform
AUGUST 22, 2022
The affordability of diabetes care is a national issue. Even with insurance, diabetic patients can spend thousands of dollars on medication, supplies, and health services. These costs can present a particular burden on Black families. Black and Hispanic patients face disproportionally high hospitalizations and emergency department visits due to diabetes complications, emphasizing that affordable access to diabetes care is an issue of health equity.
Compliancy Group
AUGUST 22, 2022
Each month, we review healthcare breaches to determine the leading cause and how the incidents could have been prevented. We do so by examining the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) online breach portal. The OCR publicly posts healthcare breaches that affected 500 or more patients to ensure that all affected patients know their information could have been potentially compromised.
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Start-ups & SMBs launching products quickly must bundle dashboards, reports, & self-service analytics into apps. Customers expect rapid value from your product (time-to-value), data security, and access to advanced capabilities. Traditional Business Intelligence (BI) tools can provide valuable data analysis capabilities, but they have a barrier to entry that can stop small and midsize businesses from capitalizing on them.
HIT Consultant
AUGUST 22, 2022
What You Should Know: – Clarify Health , a cloud analytics and value-based payments platform company, and Datavant , a provider helping organizations securely connect health data expands their relationship to enable life sciences companies to connect their proprietary, first-party data in Clarify’s AI-powered Atlas analytics platform to improve clinical development and commercial operations. – Datavant’s privacy-preserving tokenization and high-accuracy matching technologies will be
Jane Sarashon
AUGUST 22, 2022
“Partnerships, including JVs and alliances with other healthcare organizations and with new entrants, are just one way to access new capabilities, unlock speed to market, and achieve capital, scale, and operational efficiencies” in health care transformations. “In an environment with continued competition for attractive assets and significant capital in play from institutional investors, these partnerships may also be the most accessible way for organizations to capture value i
Mobi Health News
AUGUST 22, 2022
One of the projects will develop a digital navigator to support people with chronic conditions.
Digital Health News
AUGUST 22, 2022
Advanced have issued a status update on their products affected by the cyber-attack, including its Adastra software which has affected NHS 111 services.
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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.
Mobi Health News
AUGUST 22, 2022
A clinician shortage crisis is on the horizon. Here are some ideas from a top expert on what can be done.
Healthcare IT Today
AUGUST 22, 2022
For the 95th episode of the Healthcare IT Podcast , we’re talking about the future of primary care. We discuss the different challenges primary care is currently facing. Then we take a look at retail care and tech players to see how they can impact primary care. Lastly, we dive into what is needed for primary care to move forward. Here’s a preview of the questions and topics we discuss in this episode: Has there been a time more tumultuous for primary care?
Mobi Health News
AUGUST 22, 2022
It will be used to accelerate collaborations with pharmaceutical firms.
Healthcare IT Today
AUGUST 22, 2022
While many would like to eschew fax in healthcare, the reality is that faxes are still an extremely important part of data sharing that happens in healthcare. At least in the current environment, if you want to solve the healthcare interoperability problem, you’re going to have to include some faxing. This was the reality that Therasa Bell, Cofounder, President & CTO at Kno2 , found as her team and her worked to make communication of health data seamless for their end users.
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While data platforms, artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and programming platforms have evolved to leverage big data and streaming data, the front-end user experience has not kept up. Holding onto old BI technology while everything else moves forward is holding back organizations. Traditional Business Intelligence (BI) aren’t built for modern data platforms and don’t work on modern architectures.
Med-Net Compliance
AUGUST 22, 2022
The Florida Attorney General’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit (MFCU), with the help of the Leon County Sheriff’s Office (LCSO), announced the arrest of a caregiver for abusing an adult with disabilities. According to the MFCU investigation, the caregiver dragged an adult with disabilities directly by the hair, tearing out several braids in the process.
Becker's Health IT
AUGUST 22, 2022
A Vermont health center recently experienced a ransomware attack that affected 59,381 patients, it reported Aug. 11 to the HHS Office of Civil Rights.
HIT Consultant
AUGUST 22, 2022
What You Should Know: – Anomaly , a precision payments company streamlining healthcare billing and payments for providers and payers, today announced its new offering Anomaly Smart Response. – Smart Response uses AI to enable providers and payers to reduce avoidable claim denials and rework and increase payment transparency, top priorities for healthcare stakeholders.
Health Law Advisor
AUGUST 22, 2022
On August 19, 2022, the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (“OIG”) posted Advisory Opinion 22-16 (“AO 22-16”) to its website, a favorable opinion concluding that the OIG would not impose sanctions in connection with a program that offered $25 gift cards to Medicare Advantage (“MA”) plan enrollees who completed an online educational program about the potential risk, benefits, and expectations related to surgery.
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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.
Healthcare IT Today
AUGUST 22, 2022
Following Successful Pilots with Leading Healthcare Organizations, Abridge’s Ambient AI Technology is Positioned to Transform Medical Documentation Workflows and Revolutionize the Care Delivery Experience for Providers and Patients. Abridge, the leader in medical conversation AI, today announced an oversubscribed $12.5M Series A-1. Led by Wittington Ventures, the round also had participation from all existing investors including Union Square Ventures, Bessemer Venture Partners, Pillar Venture Ca
HIPAA Trek
AUGUST 22, 2022
While modifications and updates to regulations are always going to be a part of HIPAA compliance, it doesn’t have to be a huge headache every time something shifts. The post Staying Compliant as HIPAA Changes: A System for Success appeared first on HIPAAtrek.
McGuire Wood
AUGUST 22, 2022
RiverGlade Capital has announced it closed its latest fund, RiverGlade Capital Fund II, with $453 million in capital commitments. The fund was over-subscribed and exceeded its target size and initial cap. RiverGlade Capital , based in Chicago, makes control and select minority equity investments in lower middle market healthcare companies. Founded in 2017, the firm prefers to make more substantial investments from a dollars perspective.
HealthIT Answers
AUGUST 22, 2022
The Inflation Reduction Act, now signed into law, will invest $437B in America's future which will include $64B in healthcare. The White House breaks this down by the numbers. The post The Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 appeared first on Health IT Answers.
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In the rapidly-evolving world of embedded analytics and business intelligence, one important question has emerged at the forefront: How can you leverage artificial intelligence (AI) to enhance your application’s analytics capabilities? Imagine having an AI tool that answers your user’s questions with a deep understanding of the context in their business and applications, nuances of their industry, and unique challenges they face.
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