Healthcare Dive

JULY 14, 2023

Regulators also proposed stricter price transparency requirements on hospitals and expanded behavioral health payments in Medicare.

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Bill of Health

JULY 14, 2023

By Jennifer S. Bard Until more is known about how to mitigate the threat of AI-fueled persuasion in human subject research, a ban on its use is the only reasonable way to keep the promise that we, as a country, made to those harmed while participating in research. The federal government’s commitment to assuring that participants in human subject research provide fully informed consent dates back to the U.S Public Health Service’s (USPHS) Syphilis Study at Tuskegee , whose revelation to the publi

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Healthcare Dive

JULY 14, 2023

Transactions in Q2 were the most in a single quarter since the COVID-19 pandemic began — a sign the M&A market is “regaining momentum.

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Compliance Now

JULY 14, 2023

By Jessica Waltman Late last week, the Departments of Health and Human Services, Labor, and Treasury (the Departments) published a set of FAQs that clarify how certain surprise billing protections interact with the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) maximum out-of-pocket limit (OOP) requirements. The FAQs also clarify whether facility fees are subject to specific transparency in coverage requirements.

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Healthcare Dive

JULY 14, 2023

Rising outpatient utilization among seniors that spooked investors earlier in the quarter left the payer’s bottom line largely unscathed.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 14, 2023

A new telehealth study by the University of Texas McCombs School of Business found that virtual care did not significantly lower costs, or reduce the number of future visits to emergency rooms or specialists for circulatory, respiratory and infectious diseases. WHY IT MATTERS Indranil Bardhan, a professor of information, risk and operations management at UTexas, and his co-authors, Sezgin Ayabakan of Temple University and Zhiqiang 'Eric' Zheng of UTexas at Dallas, examined telehealth thr

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HIT Consultant

JULY 14, 2023

What You Should Know: EHR vendor NextGen Healthcare has agreed to pay $31M to settle allegations that NextGen violated the False Claims Act (FCA) by misrepresenting the capabilities of certain versions of its EHR software and providing unlawful remuneration to its users to induce them to recommend NextGen’s software. The civil settlement includes the resolution of claims brought under the qui tam or whistleblower provisions of the False Claims Act by Toby Markowitz and Elizabeth Ringold, health

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Fierce Healthcare

JULY 14, 2023

An 85,000-strong body of unionized healthcare workers is turning up the pressure on Kaiser Permanente as both sides hash out the terms of a new labor contract. | The demonstrations will involve "tens of thousands" of union participants seeking increased staffing commitments in their next labor contract.

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Becker's Health IT

JULY 14, 2023

Nashville, Tenn.-based HCA Healthcare is facing a lawsuit for a recent data theft incident that affected 171 hospitals and health systems across the U.S. and may have breached information of about 11 million patients.

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Fierce Healthcare

JULY 14, 2023

Healthcare giant UnitedHealth Group kicked off insurer earnings for the second quarter Friday morning, when it reported $5.5 billion in profit alongside double-digit revenue growth. | Healthcare giant UnitedHealth Group kicked off insurer earnings for the second quarter Friday morning, when it reported $5.5 billion in profit alongside double-digit revenue growth.

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Digital Health News

JULY 14, 2023

Skin Analytics has been awarded Small Business Research Initiative Cancer Programme funding to scale its AI technology that detects skin cancer in the NHS.

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Fierce Healthcare

JULY 14, 2023

Equity was at the forefront of Reuters’ value-based health conference in Philadelphia last month. | Over two days, executives from accountable care organizations, health systems and payers spoke about interoperability, population health, social determinants, the cost of care and taking on risk.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 14, 2023

The following is a guest article by Zack Tisch, Senior Vice President of Innovation and Life Sciences at Pivot Point Consulting Medical devices have long existed and added value at points in the healthcare experience. From consumer wearables and smart home devices to point-of-care testing and other technologies used within hospitals and physician practices – these have traditionally existed in silos, capturing and transmitting data with minimal collaboration between providers, specialties, or or

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Fierce Healthcare

JULY 14, 2023

When Paul Ginsburg, Ph.D., Steve Lieberman and other experts co-authored | While insurers would likely fight massive changes to the program, experts say less drastic updates could still go a long way toward lowering overpayments.

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HIPAA Journal

JULY 14, 2023

There has been a sizeable fall in revenues from cryptocurrency-related crimes in the first half of 2023, with scammers seeing a 77% reduction in revenues from the same period in 2022, amassing a little over $1 billion in the first half of the year compared to $3.3 billion in the first half of 2022. While this is certainly good news, ransomware-related cryptocurrency payments increased significantly in H1 2023, and if the trend continues in the second half of the year, ransomware revenues could e

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Fierce Healthcare

JULY 14, 2023

The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) has released a request for information to design a future episode-based payment model. | It is expected that a new episode-based payment model would be implemented no earlier than 2026, CMMI said.

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HIPAA Journal

JULY 14, 2023

Lawsuits against HCA Healthcare were an inevitability following a data breach that affected approximately 11 million individuals and saw the stolen data listed for sale on a dark web forum. The breach was announced by HCA Healthcare on July 10, 2023, and while the total number of affected individuals affected has yet to be confirmed, 27 million lines of data were compromised, which equates to around 11 million individuals.

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Mobi Health News

JULY 14, 2023

Diana Gelston, chief commercial officer at Best Buy Health, tells MobiHealthNews how acquisitions and collaborations shape the company's healthcare offerings.

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HIPAA Journal

JULY 14, 2023

The White House has published a roadmap for implementing President Biden’s March 2023 National Cybersecurity Strategy to ensure transparency and a continued path for coordination. The National Cybersecurity Strategy Implementation Plan ( NCSIP ) includes more than 65 federal initiatives that aim to improve resilience against cyber threats and disrupt cyber threat operations, and changes how the United States allocates roles, responsibilities, and resources in cyberspace.

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Kaiser Health News

JULY 14, 2023

Montana state Sen. Becky Beard thought she’d found a fix for a shortage of assisted living care options for Montanans who can’t afford to pay for it themselves — a shortage she became aware of while searching for a suitable place for her mother to live. Beard, a Republican from the rural town of Elliston, ushered a bill through the GOP-controlled legislature this spring.

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Center for Health Insurance Reform

JULY 14, 2023

As we splashed into summer, CHIR soaked up the latest health policy research along with some rays. In June, we read about trends in coverage and access for LGBT adults, the rise of facility fees, and the out-of-pocket cost burden of mental health care.

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Health IT Security

JULY 14, 2023

The VA Office of Inspector General discovered several security issues at the Northern Arizona VA Healthcare System, including vulnerability management deficiencies.

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Digital Health News

JULY 14, 2023

This Digital Health News industry roundup covers a new CPD offering from Agilio Software and a national win for an AI-powered heart diagnostic tool.

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Health Populi

JULY 14, 2023

You may not be able to get that ear-worm jingle that goes “O O O Ozempic” out of your musical mind, but I’m happy to tell you there’s a new “O” in town: the Opill. Welcome to the first OTC contraceptive for sale in the USA. I wrote about Perrigo’s Opill here in Health Populi in May 2023 as a “signpost on the road to retail health.” It’s official: “The U.S.

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Modern Healthcare

JULY 14, 2023

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has consistently maintained that remedies for 340B drug payment cuts must be budget-neutral, lawyers said.

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Digital Health News

JULY 14, 2023

New online learning resources and tools for the UK Medical Licensing Assessment (UKLMA) have been launched for medical students by UWorld.

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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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Dossier

JULY 14, 2023

Authored By: Geir Arnhoff CEO Linkedin Last week the Dossier team in Norway hosted a webinar spotlighting task distribution in healthcare as key to resolving soaring capacity and staff shortage challenges. Rethinking of roles and responsibilities of healthcare team members is as critical as compliance, policy, and regulations. Rethinking roles and responsibilities must be approached from multiple angles.

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American Medical Compliance

JULY 14, 2023

The opioid crisis has been a significant public health concern, and as frontline healthcare providers, dentists play a crucial role in addressing this issue. Recognizing the need for enhanced knowledge and awareness, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) has implemented a new requirement for dentists to complete an 8-hour continuing education (CE) course on opioids.

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HIT Consultant

JULY 14, 2023

Versanis logo What You Should Know: Eli Lilly announced an agreement to acquire Versanis , a private clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on the development of new medicines for the treatment of cardiometabolic diseases for $1.925B in cash. Versanis’ lead asset is bimagrumab, a monoclonal antibody that binds activin type II A and B receptors to block activin and myostatin signaling.

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HealthIT Answers

JULY 14, 2023

Some recent studies and reports that caught our eye from JMIR, Trilliant Health, Cigna, Kaiser Family Foundation, ONC, Sage Growth Partners, Wolters Kluwer, Pure Storage, NEHII, FII Institute, Vizient, HealthCare.com, and Turquoise Health. The post Studies, Surveys and Reports: What Can We Learn? appeared first on Health IT Answers.

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