Healthcare Dive
APRIL 25, 2022
New data from the nonprofit reiterates the explosive growth in telemedicine in the first year of the pandemic when other medical sites scaled back services.
Healthcare It News
APRIL 25, 2022
A survey conducted by the American Medical Association found that the vast majority of physician respondents say they're currently using telehealth – and many of those reporting a decrease say they're providing a mix of virtual and in-person care. The survey, which was conducted online in late 2021, explored the variations in telehealth use among 2,232 physicians.
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Healthcare Dive
APRIL 25, 2022
The Department of Justice intends to appeal a ruling siding with the Texas Medical Association, saying arbiters should not weigh any factor more heavily than others when resolving payment disputes between payers and providers.
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
APRIL 25, 2022
Behavioral Nutrition is a holistic eating disorder outpatient clinic that treats adolescents and adults using behavioral therapy and nutritional counseling. The clinic has five locations spread out among Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Florida, New Jersey and Texas. THE PROBLEM. The provider organization had four main challenges: The clinical team was looking to provide convenient nutritional support to patients who needed help but were deterred from scheduling a session due to being located sever
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Healthcare Dive
APRIL 25, 2022
Asheville is an area well known in healthcare circles for its previous state-sanctioned monopoly. If approved, AdventHealth's facility will be the second hospital in the area.
Bill of Health
APRIL 25, 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 March.
Health Care Compliance Brief brings together the best content for health law & compliance professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
HIPAA Journal
APRIL 25, 2022
Healthcare data breaches are occurring in record numbers, but not all privacy and security threats come from outside the organization. The Department of Health and Human Services’ Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center (HCC) has recently issued a warning about the threat from within. Insider Threats in Healthcare. Nation-state hacking groups, cybercriminal gangs, and lone hackers have long targeted the healthcare industry, but there is also a significant threat of data breaches due to i
Healthcare Dive
APRIL 25, 2022
Vidya Raman-Tangella joins Teladoc from Amazon subsidiary AWS, where she led strategy for healthcare solutions.
Total HIPAA
APRIL 25, 2022
For organizations that deal with sensitive client or employee information, (e.g., Medical Practices, Employer Groups, Business Associates, and Business Associate Subcontractors) developing a robust security plan is a necessary investment when it comes to data protection. Building a security program that can ensure the safety of information at rest, in transit, and in storage should be a top priority.
Mobi Health News
APRIL 25, 2022
Also: Mental health-focused Spring Health hires Todd Hill from Headspace Health, Teladoc Health appoints Dr. Vidya Raman-Tangella as chief medical officer and WellSky appoints Dale Zurbay chief growth officer.
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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.
Health Law RX
APRIL 25, 2022
The No Surprises Act (the “Act”) continues muddling through its implementation period. We have discussed the Act in prior posts, and most recently on March 8, 2022. The surprises have continued, with new updates coming out almost daily! There has been legal movement as health care providers and facilities (collectively, “Providers”) have brought lawsuits against the Departments of Health and Human Services (“HHS”), Labor, and Treasury, and the Office of Personnel Management (collectively, “Depar
Center for Health Insurance Reform
APRIL 25, 2022
The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends feeding infants breastmilk through their first year. One of the barriers to doing so is cost. The Affordable Care Act requires most health insurance plans to cover breastfeeding services and supplies without cost sharing, but gaps in access for enrollees have underscored the need for policy changes. CHIR expert and new mom Christine Monahan looks at new federal guidelines on the coverage of breastfeeding services and supplies going into effect next y
Healthcare IT Today
APRIL 25, 2022
Investment in independently operated specialty clinical workforce and technology platform will accelerate Specialist TeleMed’s growth, improve access to critical healthcare services for communities across the country, and expand LifePoint’s diversified healthcare network LifePoint Health and Specialist TeleMed (STeM) have announced that an affiliate of LifePoint Health will lead an investment in STeM.
Mobi Health News
APRIL 25, 2022
The collection by Getlabs will cost users a convenience fee starting at $25.
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Healthcare IT Today
APRIL 25, 2022
New research on the future of clinical practice suggests that being technology savvy will be more critical than ever over the next decade — but that the majority of clinicians still don’t feel prepared. While I could have written this headline ten years ago, the problem seems to be a lot worse at this point […].
Healthcare Compliance Blog
APRIL 25, 2022
The number of reported healthcare data breaches affecting greater than 500 individuals decreased to 43 in March 2022, which is well below the 12-month average of 57.75 a month. Healthcare data breaches that affect greater than 500 individuals are required to be reported to the US Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights (OCR) within 60 days of discovery.
Healthcare IT Today
APRIL 25, 2022
For the 31st episode of the CIO podcast hosted by Healthcare IT Today, we sat down with Jesse Fasolo, Director, Technology Infrastructure & Cyber Security, Information Security Officer at St. Joseph’s Health. Fasolo provided a unique perspective since he’s the CISO at St. Joseph’s Health, but he also has responsibility for the infrastructure.
HIPAA Journal
APRIL 25, 2022
HIPAATizer.com, an all-in-one WordPress plugin and form builder that can be used by web developers to make websites HIPAA-compliant, has been confirmed as compliant with all standards of the HIPAA Rules that apply to business associates of HIPAA-covered entities. HIPAA-covered entities that wish to include forms on their websites that capture individuals’ protected health information need to ensure that their web forms comply with the HIPAA standards.
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.
AIHC
APRIL 25, 2022
Written by: Joanne Byron , BS, LPN, CCA, CHA, CHCO, CHBS, CHCM, CIFHA, CMDP, COCAS, CORCM, OHCC, ICDCT-CM/PCS This article addresses how to track telehealth policies while addressing HIPAA compliance and mobile device management as the United States enters into a post-pandemic era. The information is an overview and should not be used as legal or consulting advice.
HIPAA Journal
APRIL 25, 2022
American Addiction Centers (AAC), a network of treatment centers for individuals struggling with drug addiction, alcohol addiction, and co-occurring mental/behavioral health issues, has recently been confirmed as having achieved compliance with all of the necessary standards of the HIPAA Privacy Rule, Security Rule, Breach Notification Rule, Omnibus Rule, and the HITECH Act.
Compliancy Group
APRIL 25, 2022
Even when you do the best you can to comply with HIPAA regulations, violations and breaches may occur. Clients or patients may report what they think are violations, even when they’re not. What happens after a HIPAA complaint is filed? What rights do you have as a covered entity or business associate? And what is the worst-case scenario? Common Violation Examples – What Happens After a HIPAA Complaint is Filed?
Symplr
APRIL 25, 2022
Patient experience—the sum of all interactions that influence patients’ perceptions of the healthcare they receive—is an important component of healthcare quality for patients, certainly. For health systems and providers, it affects factors ranging from workforce satisfaction to reimbursement under value-based payment models. Enhancing the patient experience is even one of the goals of the Quadruple Aim.
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Think your customers will pay more for data visualizations in your application? Five years ago, they may have. But today, dashboards and visualizations have become table stakes. Turning analytics into a source of revenue means integrating advanced features in unique, hard-to-steal ways. Download this white paper to discover which features will differentiate your application and maximize the ROI of your analytics.
Medisys Compliance
APRIL 25, 2022
Accounts receivable (AR) is an important parameter for any practice’s revenue cycle management. More number of AR days indicate inefficiencies in your overall revenue cycle activities. Things can quickly go out of hand and providers require to write off significant amount as bed debt if not planned accordingly. In this article, we shared key parameters that will help you to reduce accounts receivable for your practice.
HIT Consultant
APRIL 25, 2022
What You Should Know: – Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan (BCBSM) today announced a joint venture with Nashville-based Honest Medical Group to offer physicians comprehensive operational, clinical, and financial support for shared accountability Medicare contracts. – The joint venture is the first of its kind for BCBSM and aligns with the organization’s continued expansion of Blueprint for Affordability, its member-focused, value-based care and payment models.
The Health Law Firm
APRIL 25, 2022
By George F. Indest III, J.D., M.P.A., LL.M., Board Certified by The Florida Bar in Health Law. Physicians and other healthcare professionals usually have broad scope to prescribe most drugs, including potentially dangerous ones. However, over the past decade, many limits, often imposed arbitrarily through criminal prosecutions or drastic administrative sanctions, have been used to impose limits.
Modern Healthcare
APRIL 25, 2022
At the same time, demand for community testing — from residents with and without insurance — has dropped precipitously.
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Hall Render
APRIL 25, 2022
Our Health Care Real Estate Briefing is your comprehensive summary of weekly health care real estate highlights happening across the nation. Hall Render hosted its Health Care Real Estate Executive Summit last week. Instead of covering headlines from the previous week, we have outlined several trends discussed at the Summit. 1. ASCs. There has been tremendous growth in the ambulatory surgery center (“ASC”) industry.
HIT Consultant
APRIL 25, 2022
Dr. Bob Lindner, Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer of veda. Efficient data processing and data sharing are essential functions across healthcare—from patient care, clinical research, and health services planning to billing and government reporting for funding and research. But most of the data that the industry is processing is human-generated, meaning it’s messy and riddled with errors, and often manually inputted from Excel spreadsheets into various disparate platforms and technology s
Healthcare Dive
APRIL 25, 2022
The state's main hospital lobby called the waiver's survival, which was also praised by Republicans late last week, a relief.
HIT Consultant
APRIL 25, 2022
What You Should Know: – Kyruus , a provider search and scheduling solutions for healthcare organizations, and Upfront , preeminent patient communication and engagement platform, today announced a new partnership to help healthcare organizations drive patient acquisition, activation, and retention. – The combination of both platforms allows healthcare organizations to create better digital experiences for their patients using Kyruus’ powerful provider search, match, and scheduling ca
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