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Kalderos Appoints Daryl Todd as Chief Strategy Officer

HIT Consultant

– Todd, a seasoned legal professional with extensive experience in the life sciences industry, brings a unique combination of legal expertise and patient advocacy to the table. Structuring collaborative arrangements with hospitals and other healthcare stakeholders. ”

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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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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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Wasted: $1 of Every $4 Spent on Health Care In America

Health Populi

This challenge covers hospital-acquired conditions and adverse events, clinician-related inefficiency, and lack of adoption of preventive care practices like administering vaccines and addressing obesity and hypertension. Pricing failure as a waste-factor accounted for nearly another third of total waste in U.S. health care.

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Home Health PPS Final Rule for CY 2024: CMS Steps Back from the Brink

Hall Render

On November 1, 2023, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) posted a pre-publication copy of the Calendar Year (“CY”) 2024 Home Health Prospective Payment System Rate Update Final Rule (“2024 Final Rule”), which has since been filed in the Federal Register. CMS proposed to change this to six months of inactivity.

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Health Provider News – November 18, 2022

Hall Render

340B safety-net hospitals lost $2.96M from drugmaker restrictions, AHA finds. American Hospital Association Throws Weight Behind Nursing Home TNA Legislation. Where are the 22 Leapfrog straight-‘A’ hospitals? Where are the 14 Leapfrog ‘F’ hospitals? University of Alabama opens new medical clinic.

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How Hospitals Can Help Patients Meet Financial Obligation While Driving Revenue Excellence

HIT Consultant

Randall Shafer, EVP and Head of Hospital Business at Firstsource. The impact is not limited to patients. Today, patients are the third-largest payer – behind Medicaid and Medicare. But the patient’s financial experience is often challenging, even for those with insurance. Today, patients face a double whammy.