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Avoiding Red Flags: Finding the Right Productivity Balance

Healthcare IT Today

After all, more patients should generate more billable services—and thus, more payments. But as organizations balance productivity goals with payer policies, sometimes their version of “enough” patient volume is actually too much. The number of Medicare TPEs and commercial payer take-back audits alone is skyrocketing.

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These are the compliance issues providers should be preparing for, post-PHE

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

But even now, hospitals and health systems should be preparing proactively to meet the regulatory demands of a post-PHE future. Additionally, several telehealth flexibilities (that generally expand Medicare coverage for telehealth services) have been extended 151 days (about five months) beyond the termination of the HHS PHE.

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Introduction to Telebehavioral Health

AIHC

Increasing importance on patient satisfaction, providing efficient and quality care, and minimizing costs have also led to higher telehealth implementation. Medicare covers many telebehavioral and telemental health services including audio-only services. This is also called “store-and-forward telemedicine.”

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Health Provider News – October 7, 2022

Hall Render

After court ruling for AHA in 340B case, HHS says it will start adjusting payment rates for certain 340B hospitals within approximately two weeks. Congress gives rural hospitals a reprieve, for now. Hospital leaders meet at White House to talk ‘twindemic’ strategies. Is the doctor’s office heading for extinction?

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Health Provider News

Hall Render

NATIONAL 79 percent have positive outlook for senior living and care: NIC 12 key legal issues impacting health systems AHA: 94% of hospitals financially impacted by Change Healthcare’s cyberattack A conversation about the HHS plan on AI in health care A new kind of hospital is coming to rural America.