Healthcare It News

DECEMBER 27, 2022

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Bill of Health

DECEMBER 27, 2022

By  Ameet Sarpatwari , Alexander Egilman , 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 November.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 27, 2022

COVID-19 transformed the delivery of care, making the use of telehealth tools highly beneficial – and a priority area for research. To further understand telehealth's impact in recent years and looking ahead, MedStar Health experts in connected care transformation and research are serving as co-principal investigators of two related Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) grant awards: Dr.

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HIPAA Journal

DECEMBER 27, 2022

Morley Companies has agreed to settle a class action lawsuit filed on behalf of individuals affected by a major data breach that occurred on or around August 1, 2022. A fund of $4.3 million has been created to cover claims from individuals affected by the data breach. On or around August 1, 2021, Morley Companies, a Saignaw, MI-based provider of business services, suffered a cyberattack in which hackers gained access to parts of its network.

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Medisys Compliance

DECEMBER 27, 2022

In recent years, outsourcing has quickly expanded as a trend in the healthcare sector. The global medical outsourcing industry will reach $449.6 billion by 2023, predicts a 2019 market analysis. Despite the fact that many practices prefer the skill and knowledge of in-house staff to those of an outside stakeholder, the complex and constantly evolving healthcare environment makes it challenging for a small in-house team to properly keep on top of all the best practices for medical billing.

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Healthcare Law Blog

DECEMBER 27, 2022

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (“CMS”) has issued a proposed rule which would amend the existing regulations for reporting and returning identified overpayments (the “Proposed Rule”). Specifically, with respect to the meaning of “identification” of overpayment, CMS proposes to eliminate the “reasonable diligence” (or traditional negligence) standard and replace it with the False Claims Act’s (“FCA’s”) standard of “knowing” and “knowingly” ( i.e. , reckless disregard or deliberate

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 27, 2022

It might be tempting to pause seemingly “nice-to-have” projects in these tough times. Projects like improving your patient-facing website, adding online appointment booking, or enabling price transparency. Investing in these areas, however, may be the key to a faster recovery for healthcare providers and health plans according to Paul Merrild, President of Kyruus.

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Becker's Health IT

DECEMBER 27, 2022

Cybersecurity dominated healthcare news in 2022; high-profile data breaches and cyberattacks showed that healthcare organizations' cybersecurity postures are increasingly tied to their financial bottom line.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 27, 2022

Company to expand robust Enterprise Imaging offering with addition of Inspirata’s Digital Pathology technology and team. FUJIFILM Corporation (President and CEO, Representative Director: Teiichi Goto) today announced the company has entered into an asset purchase agreement to acquire the global digital pathology business of Tampa, Florida-based Inspirata, Inc.

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Healthcare Law Today

DECEMBER 27, 2022

Addressing a recent motion to dismiss, the Northern District of California predominantly denied Kaiser Permanente’s (“Kaiser”) motion to dismiss the government’s complaint in United States ex rel. Osinek v. Permanente Medical Group, Inc., and the court is allowing the government leave to amend to attempt to address any short-fallings within its complaint.

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McGuire Wood

DECEMBER 27, 2022

Lorient Capital and Martis Capital have launched Rise Health through a growth equity investment, according to a news release. Rise Health , founded in 2021 and based in Phoenix, Ariz., is a primary care technology platform. Lorient Capital , based in Birmingham, Mich., is a private investment firm focused solely on healthcare. The firm seeks investments in micro, middle market companies.

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The Health Law Firm Blog

DECEMBER 27, 2022

By George F. Indest III, J.D., M.P.A., LL.M., Board Certified by The Florida Bar in Health Law On November 30, 2022, a group of former Walgreens workers filed a proposed class action in Florida federal court that accuses the pharmacy chain of sending confusing, incomplete COBRA notices. The former employees sued, saying the company purposely [.].

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HealthIT Answers

DECEMBER 27, 2022

On our 2023 Countdown #5 is from Voices of Change. Follow us until the end of the year for our reveal of the top 10 played episodes on Healthcare NOW Radio. The post 2022 Countdown for Most Played Episodes – #5 appeared first on Health IT Answers.

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Symplr

DECEMBER 27, 2022

Each week, we add informative, thought-provoking blogs and news updates pertaining to healthcare operations, written by symplr and industry experts. These were the most popular blogs of the past year.

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HealthIT Answers

DECEMBER 27, 2022

Now on Demand Tell Me Where IT Hurts episode with host Dr. Jay Anders and his guest Micky Tripathi, National Coordinator for the ONC to have a follow-up conversation about interoperability and the latest developments regarding the 21st Century Cures Act. The post Updates from the ONC appeared first on Health IT Answers.

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Becker's Health IT

DECEMBER 27, 2022

Lake Charles (La.) Health System is alerting its patients that in October, an unauthorized third party was able to access its network, chron.com reported Dec. 26.

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HealthIT Answers

DECEMBER 27, 2022

By Travis White - We will never reach health equity across our diverse patient populations if we don’t create solutions that are equitable to all of healthcare. Perfecting the practice of person-centered care to drive health equity means extending that same hospitality to. The post Clinicians Should Be Able to Rely on Person-Centered Technology appeared first on Health IT Answers.

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Fierce Healthcare

DECEMBER 27, 2022

Are You and Your Vendor on the Same Page? mteefey. Tue, 12/27/2022 - 17:38.

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Speaker: Amy Anderson

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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AIHC

DECEMBER 27, 2022

Written by Joanne Byron , BS, LPN, CCA, CHA, CHCO, CHBS, CHCM, CIFHA, CMDP, COCAS, CORCM, OHCC, ICDCT-CM/PCS The information provided is for educational purposes only and is not all-inclusive. Reference the 2023 CPT ® book and download the online 2023 E/M guidelines w/code descriptors from the AMA. Please retain a professional consultant or attorney for coding or legal advice as it pertains to your specialty and remember, also follow payer guidelines.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 27, 2022

In this video Ofer Derech, CTO at MilagroAI, explains the technology they use to automate revenue cycle management tasks and surveillance for things like hospital acquired infections that are traditionally performed manually. The tool analyzes both structured and unstructured data, converting varying formats to standards such as SNOMED. MilagroAI then automatically identifies procedures and principal diagnoses, and finds the appropriate coding or surveillance data.

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Drug & Device Law

DECEMBER 27, 2022

What follows is from the non-Dechert side of the Blog. In the Zantac MDL, the plaintiffs’ causation problems were plainly visible on the horizon, as we mentioned in our post last year about the Zantac ruling on medical monitoring, In re Zantac (Ranitidine) Products Liability Litigation , 546 F. Supp.3d 1152 (S.D. Fla. 2021). The Zantac MDL plaintiffs’ claims regarding risk of injury and exposure levels to purported ranitidine-derived nitrosamines (“NDMA” for short) seemed not only trivial, but

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HealthLaw Prof Blog

DECEMBER 27, 2022

Sanghmitra Acharya (Jawaharlal Nehru University), Health Disparity and Health Equity in India: Understanding the Difference and the Pathways Towards Policy, 3 CASTE: Global J. on Soc. Exclusion 2, 211-222 (2022): Health is essential in all spheres of everyday life. It.

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HealthLaw Prof Blog

DECEMBER 27, 2022

Mason Marks (Florida State University, Harvard Law School, Yale University, Leiden University), The Varieties of Psychedelic Law, Neuropharmacology Nat’l Inst. of Health Special Issue on Psilocybin (Forthcoming 2023): After decades of prohibition, psychedelics are generating intense public and private interest.

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