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CMS Finalizes Major Changes to Hospital Price Transparency Rule

Hall Render

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) finalized significant updates to the Hospital Price Transparency regulation for the first time since the rule took effect on January 1, 2021. All hospital MRFs must now comply with a CMS template, a markedly more prescriptive approach than previously allowed.

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What is Healthcare Compliance Ethics?

MedTrainer

In this blog, we’ll discuss how compliance came into being and why ethics are closely monitored by federal, state, and local governments. Healthcare compliance ethics are enforced by a combination of organizations, government agencies, and individuals. What is Healthcare Compliance Ethics?

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Retail Clinics’ Growing Role in Health Care and Prescription Drug Sales

Jane Sarashon

As patients continue to morph into health consumers, facing rising out-of-pocket costs for deductibles and coinsurance shares, people are healthcare payers alongside their employers and government sponsors for insurance. For context, check out the third chart I’m sharing here from a recent survey into U.S.

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Our Nursing Home Industry – A National Scandal

HIT Consultant

It has led me to found Tapestry Health, a multispecialty medical practice that focuses on providing medical infrastructure in skilled nursing facilities (SNFs), as well as Project Patient Care, a patient advocacy organization based in Chicago, Illinois. decrease, and hospitals seeing a 1.8%

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Massachusetts DPH Delays Enforcement Penalties for State Surprise Billing Law

Healthcare Law Today

The federal government promulgated the No Surprises Act, which we discussed in prior blog posts here and here. Starting January 1, 2022, health care providers are required under Massachusetts law to notify patients if the provider is in or out of the patient’s “health benefit plan.

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Healthcare Consolidation: Opportunities for Digital Health Technology

The Digital Health Corner

ACOs require scaling which small hospitals cannot provide. The costs for EHR and other technology acquisition and maintenance are too costly for smaller hospitals, and pressures of decreased payment rates are increasing on the provider side. Patients are affected directly and indirectly.

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Five Public Health Needs for Digital Health Technology

The Digital Health Corner

Digital health technology has seen an incredible growth in the last few years, fueled by a combination of consumerization of wearable technologies, ubiquity of mobile devices, proliferation of technology incubators, attention by government health and regulatory agencies and involvement of large companies heretofore not focused on healthcare.