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California pharmacies will no longer be required to pay back the state under its new reimbursement methodology

Natalia Mazina

Several pharmacists and patient advocacy groups filed legal actions against the DHCS and worked with legislature to eliminate these chargebacks to pharmacies. This lead to overpayments to pharmacies.

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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. Why should the government be in the job of making nursing homes better?

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Weekly Roundup – October 22, 2022

Healthcare IT Today

At the recent RARE Patient Advocacy Summit, John caught up with three entrepreneurs who used their personal experiences with rare diseases to create solutions for themselves, their loved ones, and patients facing the same challenges. Read more… A Look at 3 Startups in the Rare Disease Space.

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Can a Food-As-Medicine App Extend Chronic Health Management at the Grocery Store?

Health Populi

For many years, I’ve advocated for siloes to break down so that these organizations, all of which have mission statements that speak to benefit patient care and health outcomes, to more effective reach those Holy Grails. This was met with a range of responses, from smirks and cynicism to surprise and questions of, “why?

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

Health Populi

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) forecasts that prescription drug spending will be the fastest-growing cause of rising health spending by 2027. More savings would accrue through the quicker adoption of value-based payment models, the authors assert, where clinicians take on financial risk for managing population health.

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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.

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Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 (MACRA) Funding Opportunity: Measure Development for the Quality Payment Program

CMS.gov

The Meaningful Measure Areas serve as the connectors between CMS goals under development and individual measures/initiatives that demonstrate how high quality outcomes for our Medicare, Medicaid, and CHIP beneficiaries are being achieved.