Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

The payer mix of health insurance is typical, with 35% of patients representing government insurance such as Medicare or Medicaid, 60% commercial insurance, and 6% self-pay patients. Virtual-first primary care has been shown to improve health outcomes by increasing access, he reported.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 9, 2019

That program has the potential to change our Medicare members manage meds at home to ensure better adherence, supporting better health outcomes and personal feelings of efficacy and control. [As Last week, the Giant Eagle grocery chain was the first pharmacy retailer to offer a new medication management skill via Alexa.

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Innovaare Compliance

MARCH 24, 2024

According to the National Health Care Anti-Fraud Association, the financial losses due to healthcare fraud are estimated to be in the billions of dollars annually. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) reported that in the fiscal year 2020, they recovered $3.1 billion in healthcare fraud judgments and settlements.

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HIT Consultant

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

What You Should Know: – Strive Health , the national leader in value-based kidney care, and Medical Mutual , one of the largest Ohio-based health insurance companies, announced a new value-based kidney care partnership. Addressing a Hidden Health Crisis: Over 1.3

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Bill of Health

APRIL 13, 2022

This policy improves coverage and helps reduce churn , which is associated with poor health outcomes. Two weeks after CMS issued its March 2022 guidance, the Kaiser Family Foundation released its annual survey of state Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP). What States Are Doing Now.

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Compliancy Group

MARCH 19, 2024

Also, all insurance and Medicare or Medicaid claims must only include charges for services and treatments ordered and deemed necessary. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) enforces laws relevant to patient care, healthcare delivery and billing, and workplace safety in the U.S. name, phone number).

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Health Care Law Brief

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

The Waiver Amendment was approved on January 9, 2024, by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) under Section 1115(a) of the Social Security Act and will expire on March 31, 2027. The rates must be at least 80% of Medicare rates. billion in Medicaid investments over the next three years. CMS has authorized up to $2.2

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 10, 2023

Uncle Roy’s story is not unique; the individual behaviors that people with chronic conditions perform on a daily basis are the most important determinant of future health outcomes. But, it’s estimated that 40% of health outcomes are actually attributed to our individual behavior. In the U.S.,

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

With many being unable to pay emergency care bills, there will be an even greater debt put on health systems that are already financially constrained as they battle inflation, post-pandemic patient surges, and increased staffing shortages. As the surge of redetermination efforts winds down, there is an opportunity to forge a new path forward.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 13, 2023

Although this focus started with attention to the population covered by Medicaid, the healthcare field has recognized that health equity is a relevant issue to populations covered by Medicare, Commercial, and other health insurance coverage. Let me provide some examples of what this could look like.

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AIHC

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Health Care from a Global Perspective, 2022: Accelerating Spending, Worsening Outcomes indicates that in 2021 the U.S. percent of the gross domestic product (GDP) on healthcare, which was almost two times the average of other high-income countries, while the health outcomes in the U.S. healthcare system were exorbitant.

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MedTrainer

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Regulations in the district encompass diverse healthcare areas, including patient privacy and data security, Medicaid and Medicare compliance, health insurance marketplaces, and scope of practice for healthcare professionals. Healthcare in D.C.

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AIHC

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Health Care from a Global Perspective, 2022: Accelerating Spending, Worsening Outcomes indicates that in 2021 the U.S. percent of the gross domestic product (GDP) on healthcare, which was almost two times the average of other high-income countries, while the health outcomes in the U.S. healthcare system were exorbitant.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 24, 2021

In that introductory editorial, Ending Structural Racism in the US Health Care System to Eliminate Health Care Inequities, Ortega and Roby write that, “3 studies in this issue of JAMA show that access to and utilization of services is not merely predicated on health insurance or the availability of health care.

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Health Populi

MAY 15, 2018

Health citizens living in states in New England, and then those west of Michigan and north of Missouri and Kansas, demonstrate better-than-average health outcomes. The social determinants of health — income and good jobs, using tobacco, and having health insurance — bolster good health.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Those patients trying to stay medication-adherent tried various strategies such as stretching out their prescriptions, skipping doses, or reducing those doses — not sticking to the prescribed regimen, which can result in an adverse event or compromise the intended health outcome.

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

The regulations may provide an opportunity for health insurers to attract new members – and retain existing ones – with hearing loss. Health plans could, for example, consider covering OTC hearing devices as part of the hearing benefits package provided to their Medicare Advantage plan members. Expanding membership.

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HIT Consultant

JUNE 28, 2022

The results are one example of the gains that can be made in addressing health inequities—differences in health status or distribution of health resources by race, population, gender, income and more—by exploring the nuances that perpetuate disparities in health outcomes. Digging Deeper into Disparities in Care.

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Health Populi

JULY 13, 2020

The Consumer Technology Association (CTA) collaborated with The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) on the research report, Reinvigorating Value-Based Health Care: Exploring the Role of Technology Innovation. The Medicare Trust Fund is financed by payroll taxes, general tax revenue, and the premiums enrollees pay. of the U.S. of the U.S.

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MedTrainer

DECEMBER 7, 2023

The resources provided by these Idaho state agencies are essential for promoting public health, ensuring access to healthcare, supporting healthcare professionals, and enhancing overall health outcomes for the residents of Idaho. It also allows licensure exceptions for out-of-state providers under specific circumstances.

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Hall Render

JANUARY 5, 2024

region has health officials worried Half of Black D.C. helped shape Galen College of Nursing’s culture Kentucky Association of Health Plans names 2024 officers, expands reach to improve health of all Kentucky’s registered nurse median salary ranks 38th in U.S.

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Healthcare Law Blog

APRIL 6, 2022

On April 1, 2022 , the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) announced states may seek to extend Medicaid postpartum coverage from 60 days to one year through a new state plan option offered by the American Rescue Plan Act (“ARPA”). 2] Black women have a maternal mortality rate 3.3

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Patients most-trust their clinicians, physicians and nurses, as safe places in which to have an honest SDoH discussion, compared with a health insurance representative. To mitigate SDoH risks for older Americans, Medicare has begun to pay for services that promote coordinated care.

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HIT Consultant

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Research says that those Americans who live in rural communities have less access to care and subsequently worse health outcomes than those who live in non-rural communities. African American adults are more likely to report they cannot afford to see a doctor, leading to worse health outcomes.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

In the past decade, I’ve been spending a lot of time considering SDoH through a variety of lenses across the health/care ecosystem, including care providers like hospitals, health insurance companies, pharma and life science, retail health care front doors, and non-profits and foundations.

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C&M Health Law

JANUARY 18, 2023

On January 4, in its most recent effort to expand federal support for addressing health-related social needs (HRSNs), the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued guidance to clarify an existing option for states to address HRSNs through the use of “in lieu of” services and settings policies in Medicaid managed care.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 8, 2018

With “Economy” embodied in the law’s name, a rationale for including HITECH in ARRA was, in part, to help stimulate the nation’s economy beyond the revenues of health IT companies many of whom, in the short-term, directly benefited from the law. Some historical perspective is useful for context.

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Healthcare Law Blog

DECEMBER 15, 2022

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (“CMS”) issued a proposed rule , “Advancing Interoperability and Improving Prior Authorization Processes” (the “Proposed Rule”), that is intended to improve patient and provider access to health information and streamline processes related to prior authorization for medical items and services.

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Hall Render

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

CALIFORNIA 8 ASCs opening in Florida, California and New York A bankrupt California hospital left a health care desert. CALIFORNIA 8 ASCs opening in Florida, California and New York A bankrupt California hospital left a health care desert.

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Hall Render

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

See Latest Data RHODE ISLAND Lifespan’s primary care group transitions to Epic Teenage Depression Rates in Rhode Island Prompt ‘Crisis’ Rhode Island native’s AI company helping predict patient health outcomes Coastal Medical switches to Lifespan’s electronic health record R.I.

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Value-based care, a model that rewards better patient health outcomes, has experienced a surge in interest amid heightened consumer awareness and among payers seeking to lower costs and stabilize reimbursement. WEDI has close working relationships with both CMS and CAQH.

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Hall Render

AUGUST 19, 2022

Connecticut ditches $20M health information exchange software. Two Health Insurers Grilled for Proposing Rate Increases of 20 and 25 Percent. Henry Ford Health reports negative operating margin. Michigan health insurance companies ordered to lower costs. UnitedHealth Group buys Medicare insurer in Texas.

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Hall Render

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

AMA scrutinizes lack of competition, consumer harms in Medicare Advantage plans. CMS makes big changes to Medicare Shared Savings Program. 2 orthopedic hospitals facing Medicare readmission penalties. Feds approve program for rural Arkansas health care but it will cost local taxpayers more. CMS bumps ASC payments to 3.8

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Hall Render

MARCH 22, 2024

To qualify, facilities must close their beds Amazon’s physician acquisition strategy As Many Hospitals Continue to Face Significant Financial Challenges, MedPAC Recommends Highest Ever Medicare Payment Update Change competitors step in but breaking up may be hard to do CMS to launch new primary care ACO program Congress unveils $1.2T

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Hall Render

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

in repairs Sutter Health faces possible $519M payout in alleged double billing case COLORADO Denver Health sued by sons after father’s jail death How a Kaiser Permanente worker strike could affect Colorado patients Kaiser names regional president Medical Office Building in Littleton Sells for $6.1M

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Hall Render

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

ALABAMA American Family Care opens new health care center in Northeast Birmingham doctors secure $13.9M Elizabeth Medical Center to receive nearly $400k in federal funds to combat substance abuse UofL lands nearly $12 million grant from National Institute of Health Winchester physician Michael Kuduk, M.D.,

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Health Populi

JUNE 2, 2021

and how much care would be postponed or never realized in the health care system. A big uncertainty in this year’s forecast, pondering the 2022 picture, is what extent eliminate care will have on future adverse health outcomes… something that keeps my scenario planning humming across various modeling.

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