Bill of Health

OCTOBER 27, 2023

By Adithi Iyer In my last piece , I discussed the hypothetical successor of 23andme — a tissue-based direct-to-consumer testing service I’ve called yourtissueandyou — and the promise and perils that it might bring in consumer health information and privacy. Turning to the FTC?

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Bill of Health

APRIL 4, 2022

It’s worth noting that some in American midwifery or birthing center circles have alleged that they are being suppressed by physicians who see them as competitors. Insurance policies are a factor that complicates a woman’s decision to give birth at home. In the U.K., Regulatory hurdles limit opportunities to practice for midwives.

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Payers and insurance providers want better patient outcomes due to the high cost of poor health, while health providers want to ensure their patients aren’t overlooked and are appropriately cared for. Before “6 feet apart”, few insurance companies recognized the importance or necessity of virtual care.

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Healthcare It News

AUGUST 23, 2021

Paddy Padmanabhan When David Feinberg, head of Google Health, announced this past week that he was departing to take up the CEO role at the EHR company Cerner , media reports took it as an admission of defeat by Google in the campaign to win in the healthcare space. Google wasn't alone in making news.

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MedTrainer

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Healthcare providers must complete insurance credentialing to receive reimbursement for services. In this blog, we’ll review what is insurance credentialing, the process, and who’s required to complete insurance credentialing. What is Insurance Credentialing? There are many steps to this time-consuming process.

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Compliance Now

JUNE 27, 2022

Jackson Women’s Health Organization finding that the United States Constitution does not guarantee a right to abortion access. However, existing law does help to answer certain key questions: How is it determined if fully insured plans cover abortion? By Jennifer Berman, CEO, MZQ Consulting. Wade and Planned Parenthood v.

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Jane Sarashon

APRIL 8, 2024

While so-called recreational GLP-1 consumers may experience these benefits, this population would be less likely to be covered by medical insurance under current obesity criteria which are in use to ration access to the medicines in Germany and the United Kingdom.

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Bill of Health

MARCH 11, 2024

Public approval for polygenic embryo screening is much higher for physical health conditions (e.g., prostate cancer) (77%) and psychiatric health conditions (e.g., Public approval for polygenic embryo screening is much higher for physical health conditions (e.g., prostate cancer) (77%) and psychiatric health conditions (e.g.,

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 3, 2021

" Transcarent, his newest venture, aims to address those concerns by overhauling the self-insured model and offering a telemedicine chat option to users. With virtual care, he explained, "everyone could access a behavioral health specialist" regardless of location, for instance. (It's Twitter: @kjercich.

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 25, 2022

What You Should Know: – Swiftarc Ventures , an NYC-based early and growth-stage consumer and consumer health-focused venture capital firm announced it has launched a $75M telehealth -focused venture fund. In the past, the three-pillared U.S. The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated everything in healthcare.

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HIT Consultant

JUNE 15, 2023

Historically, value-based care has been harder to implement in behavioral healthcare due to difficulty measuring outcomes—it isn’t as simple as physical health. This has been becoming a more popular mode of healthcare delivery, as it can reduce costs for insurance companies and other payors while rewarding excellent quality of care.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 3, 2023

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) is one of the most well-known – though broadly misunderstood – data protection regulations, and it includes stiff penalties for noncompliance. The alarming frequency and severity of these breaches leave many wondering why. Why do Attackers Target Healthcare?

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 16, 2023

The Connected Health Initiative (CHI) is a non-profit organization that advocates on behalf of all health IT vendors. They are a trusted resource and voice for our industry so that policymakers at federal, state, and local levels can be better informed about emerging digital health technology. What is CHI?

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

The growing number of promising but expensive treatments present a challenge – to governments, caregivers, insurance companies, and ordinary citizens. Payers, including insurance companies and government agencies, cannot help but look at the bottom line. million gene therapy to treat a rare blood disorder. .

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

The previous articles in this series showed how payers, providers, and digital health companies try to prove that they’re helping to create healthier patients. Sara Shanti, a partner specializing in health care at law firm Sheppard Mullin , says that organizations in the wellness space are searching for strong algorithms.

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HIPAA Journal

APRIL 13, 2023

The Nevada-based creative marketing agency, Estipona Group, has achieved compliance with the federally mandated standards of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and has demonstrated its commitment to protecting the privacy and security of its clients’ patient health information.

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HIPAA Journal

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

The Biden Administration is considering new rulemaking to update HIPAA to better protect reproductive health information, following the Supreme Court Decision in Dobbs v. There have been calls for HIPAA to be updated to improve privacy protections with respect to reproductive health information. Currently, at least 24 U.S.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 22, 2021

In the U.S., “Health care is complicated because complexity is profitable.” Dr. Kocher, a physician who is a venture capitalist, and Chigurupati, head of member experience at Devoted Health, explain the misaligned incentives that impede progress in reducing administrative spending. health care dollar.

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Bill of Health

MARCH 22, 2022

By Brooke Ellison. There is a profound need to deconstruct and actively reconstruct the interpretation of disability as it is currently understood. The current framing of disability as inability — whether an inability to be employed or otherwise — has utterly failed not only people with disabilities, but also the communities in which they live.

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Bill of Health

JANUARY 7, 2022

Over the summer of 2021, concern grew that the vaccines were not providing the near-perfect protection against symptomatic disease and transmission that had first emboldened the administration to jettison other public health measures. Instead, the administration mostly adapted by shifting its messaging.

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Jane Sarashon

MARCH 18, 2024

However, that ubiquity comes with its own set of market pressures…shifting from pandemic-responsiveness to market- and consumer- responsiveness, ” according to The new era of consumer engagement, Rock Health’s ninth annual Consumer Adoption Survey published 18 March. Three in four people in the U.S.

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HIT Consultant

AUGUST 30, 2023

If you believe the latest hype around AI, then the screamingly unreliable chatbots with whom you are invited to engage while trying to renew your home insurance, are poised to take over the world, consigning humanity to the role of trussed-up gimps. annually over the next four years when it will be worth $ 11.75 on the previous year.

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Total HIPAA

OCTOBER 3, 2023

When there is a culture of compliance it means someone is doing their job and feels it is worth the time and effort it takes to follow the policies and procedures. Culture takes shape in every type of organization, whether it’s a business or a sports team. This approach significantly enhances your security measures.

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Kaiser Health News

APRIL 8, 2022

California awarded the Medi-Cal Rx program to a unit of Magellan Health, a company with expertise in pharmacy benefits and mental health. But Magellan was then gobbled up by industry giant Centene, worth roughly $50 billion , which was looking to expand its mental health portfolio. . Handing Over Control.

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HIT Consultant

JUNE 1, 2023

Jake Sattelmair, EVP and GM at Wellframe Health plans have an incredible opportunity to make a positive impact on the health and well-being of Medicare beneficiaries. One way health plans can ensure they’re providing the best possible care to members is to focus on improving CMS Star Ratings. Raising your Star Ratings from 3.5

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MedTrainer

AUGUST 2, 2023

By ensuring that providers meet rigorous standards, organizations can enhance the quality of care delivered to patients, leading to better health outcomes and patient satisfaction. It can cost practices up to $10,000/week when a provider is unable to see patients or bill insurance! This is why credentialing management is so important.

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HIPAA Journal

OCTOBER 19, 2022

EyeMed is an Ohio-based licensed health insurance company, which collects and stores sensitive consumer information as part of its business practices. EyeMed Vision Care was investigated by the DFS after EyeMed disclosed it had been the victim of a phishing attack and data breach that was discovered on July 1, 2020.

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

John Berndt, SVP of Health North America, Valtech Also known as the Kennedy–Kassebaum Act, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) defines and regulates individuals’ medical records and other individually identifiable health information, collectively known as patient healthcare information (PHI).

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 26, 2023

Although, it’s worth noting that there only a few months in. As such, the EHR product roadmap changed to ensure that you could meet the EHR certification and meaningful use requirements. In fact, one could argue that it hijacked much of the EHR development roadmap for 5-10 years, but that’s a topic for another day.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 24, 2023

New funding led by Cobalt Ventures will support continued business growth and expansion of health plan relationships Mobile-integrated care management platform company, MedArrive, today announced $8 million in new funding led by Cobalt Ventures , a wholly owned subsidiary of Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas City (Blue KC).

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HIT Consultant

APRIL 5, 2023

Alyssa Alsheimer, SVP of Marketing and Engagement at Wellframe The first step toward better health outcomes happens when people become proactive about protecting their own health and well-being. That’s where health insurance plans have a real opportunity to help.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

Collaborations between AI vendors and biotech/pharma companies over the last five years are worth more than $45 billion , according to a recent report from Accenture. Product and Company News Oracle Health announced several generative AI features , including a clinical digital assistant and patient self-service tools.

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Jane Sarashon

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

to reveal trends on health care providers’ ability to collect patient service revenue. The first chart quantifies that bad debt attributable to patients’ self-pay payments after insurance kicks in: that category of bad debt grew by five times between 2018 and 2021, from 11% to nearly 58%.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 30, 2020

In America, earning lower or middle incomes is a risk factor for having trouble accessing health care and/or paying for it. has health insurance coverage, the third chart tells us. Health Populi’s Hot Points: Over the past twenty years in the U.S., But the difference that insurance made was huge: 35.3%

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HIT Consultant

AUGUST 23, 2022

In fact, almost all businesses use it in some form, and the market for public cloud alone will be worth over $800 billion by 2025. So, anything ranging from a patient’s personal health information (PHI) to a clinician or doctor’s digital identity is a lot more vulnerable to cyberattacks. for security software this year.

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Medisys Compliance

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

In the case of a new patient, he should be properly introduced to the registration process, appointment scheduling, fee structure, payment policies, cancellation fees, and payment policies in case of insurance non-coverage. With EFT, you will receive quicker payment from insurance carriers without the hassle of depositing cheques.

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HIPAA Journal

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) preempts state laws; however, it sets minimum standards for healthcare data privacy and security, but states are permitted to implement their own laws that go further than HIPAA. One of the biggest sticking points is the preemption of state laws. The ADPPA gives U.S.

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