Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 15, 2024

This lack of code interoperability creates paperwork challenges for American hospitals seeking payment from other nations. While another country could pay to license CPT codes, that is likely cost-prohibitive relative to the number of patients who annually seek treatment in the United States.

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Hall Render

AUGUST 10, 2023

On August 1, 2023, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) issued its Final Hospital Inpatient Prospective Payment System (“IPPS”) and Long-Term Care Hospital (“LTCH”) PPS rule for fiscal year (“FY”) 2024 (“Final Rule”). The Final Rule increases the rate for IPPS payments by 3.3%

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Proem’s licensed digital tools ask patients to rate their symptoms through short assessments. They measure outcomes “meticulously” at the symptom and functional levels, using tools created by globally renowned psychiatrists. The ratings are used to measure outcomes for 17 adult and 24 pediatric mental health conditions.

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AIHC

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Each hospital location operating under a single hospital license (or approval) that has a different set of standard charges than the other location(s) operating under the same hospital license (or approval) must separately make public the standard charges applicable to that location.

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Hospitals US Department of Health and Human Services Compliance Governance 52

Medisys Compliance

JUNE 20, 2022

Section 1861(iii)(3)(D)(i) of the Social Security Act defines a qualified home infusion therapy supplier as a pharmacy, physician, or other provider of services or supplier licensed by the State in which the pharmacy, physician, or provider of services or supplier furnishes items or services. Billing Codes for Home Infusion Therapy.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 19, 2020

Staff members were unsure if Medicare and Medicaid would honor the prospective payment-system rate. Decisions were not made yet on the level of payment. AccessHealth’s licensed chemical dependency counselors are integrated within the medical adult clinics. Traditional therapy via telehealth is the popular choice."

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Health Care Law Brief

JULY 25, 2023

Specifically, OIG signaled that “unconscionable or one-sided business terms for the access, exchange, or use of EHI, or the licensing of an interoperability element” may rise to the level of information blocking if the conduct “impedes a provider’s ability to care for patients.” [4]

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Redox

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Primarily, CMS covers AI reimbursement with AI-specific Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) codes created by the American Medical Association CPT Editorial Panel or by establishing New Technology Add-on Payments (NTAPs) for AI devices. AI costs When calculating AI’s ROI, providers should consider more than a vendor’s deployment costs.

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Hall Render

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

NATIONAL 988 suicide hotline adds support for American Sign Language 3 Takeaways from Physician Compensation Trends Adventist Health completes merger with Montebello’s ailing Beverly Hospital AHA-supported bill to protect health care workers introduced in Senate AHA weighs in on CMS’ proposed ASC payment system AHA submits comments on CY 2024 (..)

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US Department of Health and Human Services Nursing Homes COVID-19 Nurses 40

Hall Render

MARCH 15, 2024

assisted technology for colonoscopies Sanford Health found non-compliant in nine areas according to ND agency Sanford Ambulance reports high call volume, worries about workforce retention OHIO Christ Hospital Foundation taps a new president following Rick Kammerer’s retirement Cincinnati Children’s awarded $2.6

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Hall Render

AUGUST 4, 2023

1 CMS final rule boosts Medicare hospice payments by 3.1% To Address SDOH Needs U.S. sues UnitedHealth over ‘thousands’ of denied claims What’s a fair price for a prescription drug?

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Hall Render

APRIL 21, 2023

Nevada, currently the wild west of birthing, is considering licensing midwifery NEW HAMPSHIRE Dartmouth Health opens new 5-story patient pavilion Report: Anthem has yet to process nearly $300 million in N.H. no longer calls for masks at all health care facilities to fight COVID-19, Gov.

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Drug & Device Law

JULY 31, 2023

2011), construed this statute and held that an “electronic payment system does not come within the strictures of the statute” because it was not a “product” as contemplated in Restatement Third §19. However, licensed software can be a UCC sale of “goods.” Customer Data Security Breach Litigation , 613 F. 3d 151 (1st Cir.

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