Medisys Compliance

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Accurate and timely billing is a fundamental aspect of financial success for Skilled Nursing Facilities (SNFs), particularly when it comes to optimizing SNF billing. With Medicare Part A serving as a primary payer for many residents, understanding the intricate landscape of SNF billing is crucial to ensure proper reimbursement and compliance. In this guide, we will explore into essential SNF billing tips to help you optimize your billing processes and navigate the complexities of reimbursement.

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Compliancy Group

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Healthcare organizations face a series of challenges, especially regarding healthcare compliance. When you work in the healthcare space, you must meet regulatory standards such as HIPAA, OSHA, and SOC 2. So, how can you ensure that your healthcare compliance program is effective – protecting your staff, patients, and business? Follow these tips to ensure you’re implementing an effective healthcare compliance program.

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Healthicity

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

In past years at Thanksgiving time, we’ve written about the reasons compliance professionals should be thankful for working in the compliance profession. This year, let’s explore why organizations should be grateful for you, the compliance professionals, who build and manage compliance programs.

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YouCompli

NOVEMBER 18, 2023

Wikipedia describes listening as “giving attention to sound or action.” This overly simplistic definition fails to address the inherent challenges that keep many people from being a good listener in life and, more particularly, in the workplace. The obstacles to good listening skills are many. Those include interruptions, inattention, biased or selective hearing, and focusing on your response rather than the speaker.

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Dot Compliance

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

In the pharmaceutical industry, ensuring the safety and quality of drugs is paramount. Manufacturers must adhere to stringent regulations set forth by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to meet the Current Good Manufacturing Practice (cGMP) standards. For companies in the manufacturing, processing, packing, or holding of drugs, compliance with 21 CFR Part 210 and 21 CFR Part 211 is not just a regulatory requirement; it’s the key to producing safe and effective pharmaceutical produ

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Healthcare Dive

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Bankruptcies have spiked this year as federal COVID-19 funding lapsed and heightened interest rates, regulatory changes and labor shortages squeezed the sector.

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Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Prisma Health, the largest nonprofit healthcare provider in South Carolina, says that by integrating digital patient communications, it's decreased no-shows to the tune of $4 million in savings within the first two years. That achievement, accomplished with help from patient engagement company Artera, is estimated to result in an $8 million overall cost savings.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Patients who received care under the pandemic's Acute Hospital Care at Home program had a low mortality rate and minimal complications related to escalations back to the brick-and-mortar hospital, according to a CMS research letter published in the Journal of the American Medical Association Health Forum.

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Healthcare Dive

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Hospitals and nursing unions clash on what’s driving sluggish application rates for open registered nurse positions at hospitals — a lack of qualified candidates or a lack of interest.

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Bill of Health

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

By Joelle Boxer In November 2021, Tanzania’s Ministry of Education reversed a policy preventing adolescent mothers from attending public schools. Two years on, research shows the movement for #ArudiShuleni (“Back to School”) requires continued support. Prior to the policy change, an estimated 6,550 – 15,000 Tanzanian girls and adolescents were forced out of school each year due to pregnancy, while thousands more were subject to coercive pregnancy testing.

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Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

NZ launch of InterSystems' cloud-based integration engine InterSystems has launched in New Zealand its managed integration engine cloud service, HealthShare Health Connect Cloud. The platform-as-a-solution streamlines interoperability and data integration between clinical systems and applications. It also manages cloud migration infrastructure, enabling providers to "more quickly and easily connect distributed datasets, efficiently move workloads and information across cloud solutions a

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Australia is facing a shortfall of at least 110,000 aged care workers by 2030 , according to a projection by the Committee for Economic Development of Australia. The issue is expected to have a profound impact on the aged care sector as it is predicted to be competing with other nursing sectors to hire and retain between 20,000 to 40,000 available staff over the next two years.

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Healthcare Dive

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

The Washington-based nonprofit said their policies center care, "not maximizing collections." The state's attorney general said the hospital failed to notify patients about financial assistance options.

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Fierce Healthcare

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Navigating the healthcare system often requires using different websites, mobile apps and phone calls to find providers and make appointments. | The health system has seen a 10x increase in downloads of the Prisma Health Go app, from 40 to up to 400 downloads per day. The health system also reports a 33% reduction in patient no-shows in one year and estimates $8 million in cost savings as a result of slashing the no-show rates.

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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.

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Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

HIMSS23 Europe Startup PitchFest winner Doctomatic captures and assesses remote patient measurements using visual AI. Carmen Pauline Rios Benton, cofounder of the Spanish startup, shares the details.

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Digital Health News

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

The FCI has been wracked by more resignations of trustees, triggered by deep disquiet among some members about growing ties to Accenture and Palantir.

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Healthcare Dive

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Called Evinova, the unit will operate as a separate business within AstraZeneca, which sees digital health solutions as a market primed for growth.

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Fierce Healthcare

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Traditional Medicare paid out an estimated $31.2 billion in improper payments in fiscal year 2023, according to new data from the federal government. | The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services released its annual look at improper payments and found that the overall rate in Medicare was 7.38%, which sits below the 10% level mandated in statute.

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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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Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Artificial Intelligence Electronic Health Records (EHR, EMR) Patient Engagement Population Health Workforce "Through my involvement with HIMSS Europe and EMRAM stage 7 validations, I’ve observed that the most successful organisations in healthcare IT are those with a stable, digital-savvy culture." Dr Ana Rafaela Prado In the swiftly changing healthcare landscape, the fusion of technology and patient care is increasingly integral.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

The evolution of Health Information Management (HIM) professionals has been remarkable. They are no longer paper pushers (literally) and are now stewards of healthcare data. Jennifer Mueller, President of the American Health Information Management Association ( AHIMA ), sees a bright future for the HIM industry. Healthcare IT Today sat down with Jennifer Mueller, AHIMA President and the Vice President & Privacy Officer at the Wisconsin Hospital Association Information Center ( WHAIC ) to the

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Healthcare Dive

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Failure to get tests or complete referrals is a leading cause of diagnostic errors, and it’s particularly important in primary care, researchers said.

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Fierce Healthcare

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Open enrollment on the insurance marketplaces began on Nov. | Open enrollment on the insurance marketplaces began on Nov. 1, and more than 4.5 million people have selected plans in the early weeks of the process, according to new federal data.

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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.

Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Cedar announced earlier this year a collaboration using Google Cloud's generative AI tools to assist patients in understanding and resolving their healthcare bills. Cedar is preparing to deploy AI tools in the market by early next year. The aim is more than paying for healthcare, it's making it easier for consumers to pay for healthcare, according to Cedar president Seth Cohen.

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HealthIT Answers

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

By Michael A. Brickman MD - Multiple industry factors have made it increasingly difficult for individual physicians to successfully maintain a private practice, and patients could shoulder the negative effects of a more consolidated healthcare system. The post The Tools Needed to Succeed in Private Practice Today appeared first on Health IT Answers.

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Healthcare Dive

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Inflation is a contributor to the increase, but rising prescription drug costs are likely to have a longer-term impact, according to a Mercer report.

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Fierce Healthcare

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Ayble Health, a digital health platform for patients with chronic gastrointestinal conditions, has announced a new collaboration with the Mayo Clinic. | Ayble is working with the Mayo Clinic Complex Care Program to offer a hybrid care model to match patients with the appropriate virtual and in-person care based on acuity and need.

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Kaiser Health News

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

The Department of Defense relies on hundreds, if not thousands, of weapons and products such as uniforms, batteries, and microelectronics that contain PFAS, a family of chemicals linked to serious health conditions. Now, as regulators propose restrictions on their use or manufacturing, Pentagon officials have told Congress that eliminating the chemicals would undermine military readiness.

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

What You Should Know: More than half (51%) of U.S. adults are optimistic new applications of artificial intelligence (AI) will lead to major advancements and breakthroughs in healthcare in the year ahead, according to a new survey from Medtronic , a global healthcare technology leader, and Morning Consult. Some of the highest levels of optimism for AI in healthcare are around diagnoses and improving healthcare access.

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Healthcare Dive

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

The Salt Lake City-based operator posted $912 million in net income for the first nine months of 2023, down from the $2.2 billion reported last year.

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Fierce Healthcare

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Memorial Hermann Health System is implementing Laudio’s platform to enhance employee efficiency and engagement. | Memorial Hermann Health System is tapping Laudio’s AI platform to promote efficiency and engagement among its employees.

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