MedTrainer

APRIL 18, 2024

Behavioral health credentialing exploded in 2023 and 2024 as providers could enroll in Medicare for the first time. In this blog post, we’ll explore these and how behavioral health practices are adopting technology to prepare for the future. Behavioral health credentialing certainly has a unique and challenging credentialing process.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 19, 2024

Although we were forced into fully remote operations with COVID-19, we have been making modifications along the way and have discovered how beneficial it can be to our organizations and our patients. To make further strides though, we have to understand where we’ve come from, where we are now, and how it is making an impact.

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Electronic Health Reporter

JANUARY 17, 2019

By Jayne Warwick, director of market insights, PointClickCare. The Patient Driven Payment Model (PDPM) is more than just a new name attached to Medicare payment reform. The article What Is the Patient Driven Payment Model: How Skilled Nursing Providers Can Get Ahead of PDPM appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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Bill of Health

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Kristofer Smith, MD, MPP is the Chief Medical Officer of Landmark Heath, where he oversees efforts to establish a high-quality and clinically effective home-based medical care model for patients with serious illness. You have spent your career serving patients with serious illnesses. it starts with my family.

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Bill of Health

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Medicare’s National Coverage Determination for Aducanumab – A One-Off or a Pragmatic Path Forward? Patient Out-of-Pocket Costs Following the Availability of Biosimilar Versions of Infliximab. Below are the abstracts/summaries for papers identified from the month of October. 2022 Oct 5;379:e071752. N Engl J Med. 2022 Oct 31.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 30, 2021

The act would expand coverage of Medicare telehealth services and make some COVID-19 telehealth flexibilities permanent, among other provisions. Access for Medicare beneficiaries. The CONNECT Act would aim to answer at least some of those questions, at least where Medicare is concerned. Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii, in a statement.

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HIT Consultant

APRIL 22, 2024

What You Should Know: – AccessHope , a company revolutionizing how cancer patients receive cutting-edge treatment plans secures $33M in a Series B funding round led by City of Hope , a prominent cancer research and treatment organization. chair of the AccessHope board and president, Health Innovation and Policy at City of Hope.

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Healthcare Law Blog

JANUARY 9, 2024

Somatus, a kidney care company, talked about the challenge of identifying early stage kidney disease in patients – a difficult challenge – which, if possible, can potentially result in the delay or halting of decline into end stage kidney disease. At the first day of the J.P. Recognize that famous line?

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HIT Consultant

APRIL 29, 2024

Today’s members and patients are looking for their health plans and providers to accommodate their technology preferences and provide convenient, empathetic, and helpful interactions as they navigate the healthcare ecosystem. mailed communications and calls from advocates).

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AIHC

AUGUST 30, 2023

What compliance issues need to be considered when drafting a marketing strategy? Let’s define “telemarketing” - which is a process in which telephone calls are used to promote business within the industry or, let’s say, in your medical practice to increase patients flow. If it is too good to be true it probably isn't.”

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Such advancements stand to revolutionize how healthcare entities treat, prevent, and better understand this nuanced condition. Expanding Treatment Today, CKD patients benefit from an array of ambitious treatment, preventive care, and risk management options – most of which stem from breakthroughs in related technologies.

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Bill of Health

JUNE 26, 2023

This initiative will come with enormous savings to the public: it will bring down the price of insulin by 90%, saving cash-paying patients between $2,000 to $4,000 annually. Apart from insulin, California plans to bring other products to market under its CalRx initiative going forward. Now, the tide is turning.

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Healthcare Law Blog

JANUARY 17, 2024

workflow and performance assessment, data analytics, and certain Medicare eligibility and performance assistance). However, the Opinion indicates that the tight scope of potential marketing options for physician practice vendors could expand a bit for those who are similarly situated to the Requestor.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 21, 2023

Consumers are looking for smarter ways to save on healthcare, forcing insurance providers to make marked changes to the way they conduct outreach and how they interact with their members. They’re forcing health plans to stretch beyond merely processing claims and easing how consumers find their next provider. million in 2022 and 16.3

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 18, 2023

We’ve explored how SDoH data is defined and shared. This article shows how organizations are collecting it. Andrew Eye, CEO of the healthcare data science company ClosedLoop , estimates that about 15% of physicians collect SDoH-related data from patients and use it to assess their needs.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 16, 2023

"Some 70% to 80% of these DHA residents are established patients at Denver Health. "Some 70% to 80% of these DHA residents are established patients at Denver Health. The COVID-19 public health emergency prompted a rapid shift to telemedicine as both a replacement and adjunct to usual in-person care.

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Bill of Health

JULY 26, 2022

Interestingly, Amazon’s market capitalization increased 1.4% But what we might expect to see over time is a provocative debate with powerful implications for how each of us manage the arc of our health care journeys. Amazon now has an important foothold in the Medicare market. Last week’s $3.9

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Previous articles in this series introduced the importance of social determinants of health (SDoH) and explained how it can be captured and classified. In this article, I’ll show how many hospitals, payers, and other institutions are acting on that data.

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 15, 2024

Lilly Partners with Amazon Pharmacy to Deliver GLP-1 Medications Directly to Patients Eli Lilly and Company (Lilly) and Amazon Pharmacy announced a strategic collaboration to improve patient access to GLP-1 medications for diabetes, obesity, and migraines. Providers using Epic®’s EHR system can search and request Sunoh.ai

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 23, 2021

Now more hospitals and health systems are looking to expand their efforts beyond video visit-based virtual care, and push for expanded remote patient monitoring programs – up to and including the provision of acute care at home. Telehealth proved its mettle this past year. — John Halamka, M.D., jhalamka) March 17, 2021.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

So with the world of healthcare IT only getting faster and expanding out into newer and bigger areas, how can we keep track of everything? So with the world of healthcare IT only getting faster and expanding out into newer and bigger areas, how can we keep track of everything? The video below is a compilation of their answers.

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 9, 2023

In 2023 I predict that unstructured medical data, which makes up the majority of a patient’s chart, will become too valuable to ignore by both providers and payers. In today’s fragmented healthcare ecosystem, aggregating mountains of data is only useful if patient and member information can be used in meaningful ways.

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 28, 2022

The COVID-19 pandemic feels like a once-in-a-lifetime event for those of us involved in healthcare, but the patterns of how the crisis affected our industry feel familiar. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped precipitously and this event served as the turning point for improving how the financial world shared information.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Sarah Carroll, Senior Vice President, Center for Care Transformation at AVIA Health Medicaid and Medicare have become one of the biggest quiet crises in health systems today. US hospitals regularly lose $100B annually on Medicaid and Medicare patients but continue to chase higher-margin commercial patients to drive toward profitability.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 2, 2023

So how do you make sure that you’re the one getting the funding you need and not another startup? To get a better idea on what policies and regulations you need to be aware of and just how to get access to innovation funding, we reached out to our ever so talented Healthcare IT Today community for their insights and knowledge.

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HIT Consultant

AUGUST 28, 2023

Here is why AP processes are so critical to medical facility business success, how to tell when AP is stunting business growth and how to improve AP so that it becomes an enabler, rather than an inhibitor, of business effectiveness. At first glance, the answer to that question may seem to be a resounding “no.”

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 15, 2023

As an FQHC, 75% of patients are enrolled in Medicaid or Medicare; another 7% are uninsured. As an FQHC, 75% of patients are enrolled in Medicaid or Medicare; another 7% are uninsured. "Our first choice was to have a secure integrated solution with our EHR," Ajmal said.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

More than 85% of the patients served by Temple are covered by government programs, including Medicare and Medicaid. Patients dually eligible for both Medicare and Medicaid make up roughly half of the Medicare inpatient base. More than 40% of total inpatient cases include a behavioral health diagnosis. THE PROBLEM.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 24, 2020

The Physicians Foundation surveyed 3,513 physicians in July 2020 on their perspectives on COVID-19 and how the pandemic has impacted practices and patients. This post in Health Populi covers the first of 3 parts, on patient impacts.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 22, 2021

TRU Community Care, based in Lafayette, Colorado, had a vision for incorporating a telehealth/remote patient monitoring program: to meet the needs of patients in the new Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services "Seriously Ill Population" (SIP) program. THE PROBLEM. " PROPOSAL.

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Med-Net Compliance

JULY 26, 2022

The nationwide coordinated law enforcement action includes criminal charges against a telemedicine company executive, owners and executives of clinical laboratories, durable medical equipment companies, marketing organizations, and medical professionals.

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Patients and their care partners can request DispatchHealth medical care via phone, mobile app, or website, and a medical team arrives within two hours equipped with tools and equipment needed to perform high-acuity medical care. Uber Health Expands into Employer Market. Babylon to Provide Fitbits for Eligible Members.

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MedTrainer

JANUARY 26, 2024

Non-compliance in healthcare refers to the failure of healthcare providers, institutions, or individuals to adhere to the laws, regulations, and standards established to protect patient welfare, maintain data security, and ensure the efficient and ethical delivery of healthcare services. What is Healthcare Compliance?

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Healthcare Law Blog

JANUARY 10, 2024

patients whose kidneys fail never have seen a nephologist prior to that catastrophic event, and 90% of kidney disease patients are undiagnosed. For a disease that has a total spend of approximately $420 billion, how is our system missing these patients?

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 23, 2023

– Avalere’s ‘2023 Healthcare Industry Outlook’ examines how community-wide healthcare will be affected by a recent court ruling, and consider data’s role in addressing health disparities. Over the course of 2023, CMS will release guidance that will shape the implementation of Part D redesign and Medicare negotiation policies in the IRA.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 28, 2023

For something as important and as sensitive as healthcare, there are plenty of rules and regulations in place to protect both patients and organizations. New drugs and delivery models are going to challenge what can be delivered over telemedicine and challenge the regulations of how in-person services are delivered.

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Jane Sarashon

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Patients and health plan members continue evolving into medical bill payers, with their homes and budgets baked into the concept. Furthermore, health plan members now see themselves as medical bill payers, seeking value and consumer-level services for their health insurance premium investment. Then I asked ChatGPT for a response. and ChatGPT.

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