Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 20, 2023

Watch this video to see how HEDIS Analytics and other eClinicalWorks tools contribute to better care, as well as how it is supporting simpler payment systems for patients, increasing revenue.

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Medisys Compliance

APRIL 25, 2024

MACRA replaced the previously used Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR) formula for Medicare physician payments. Advanced Alternative Payment Models (APMs): These models encourage collaboration between providers and offer the potential for higher shared savings if specific quality and cost goals are met.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

With deeply entrenched legacy systems, many payers are anxious about their return on investment, which might cause them to resist adopting advanced pre-payment technologies. Neither payers nor providers can sustain footing the bill for payment errors, making change imperative.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Thanks to the regulations included as part of meaningful use, the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA) and the Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS), every healthcare provider using certified electronic health record technology (CEHRT) has access to Direct Secure Messaging.

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Medisys Compliance

APRIL 11, 2024

However, it’s important to note that MFT and MHC services furnished to residents of skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) remain subject to consolidated billing under the SNF prospective payment system (PPS). Staying informed about Medicare regulations and billing code updates is crucial for maximizing your success.

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Hall Render

APRIL 4, 2024

The Requestor’s services further include offering physician practices training related to the Medicare Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (“MIPS”), which could result in higher Medicare reimbursement to the Requestor’s clients.

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Healthcare It News

MARCH 21, 2022

Rucker spoke to Healthcare IT News in Orlando before his HIMSS22 panel about what he sees as the promises of FHIR, how the transformation it enables will affect patients and what next steps look like to achieve its potential. It's a very different world to think about how apps and FHIR and consumers connect. It's not just FHIR.

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Hall Render

AUGUST 1, 2022

The proposed payment policies include an initial monthly facility fee of approximately $268,000 per month, which will adjust in future years based on a market-basket update. Proposed REH Payments. CMS ultimately proposed a monthly facility payment of $268,294 (just over $3.2 5 Percent OPPS Increase. million per year) for 2023.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Its use has increased over the past decade, but still, only about 13% of dialysis patients currently take advantage of in-home dialysis , despite studies showing that it has similar outcomes to in-patient treatment, greater patient satisfaction and reduced Medicare costs. About Lucienne Ide, MD, Ph.D. Lucienne Marie Ide, M.D.,

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MedTrainer

JANUARY 12, 2024

The adoption of electronic health records (EHRs), telemedicine , and data analytics has brought about new challenges and opportunities. Medicare and Medicaid (1960s): The introduction of government-funded healthcare programs brought about increased scrutiny and regulation.

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 5, 2023

Between 33-50% of sites are using electronic patient reported outcomes (ePRO), electronic clinical outcomes assessment (eCOA), learning management, document exchange, and site payment systems in over three-quarters of studies. Sponsor technology setup and training during study startup are considered the most burdensome activities.

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Medisys Compliance

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Understand Medicare’s Prospective Payment System (PPS) Medicare Part A reimburses SNFs under a PPS, providing a fixed rate per day based on the resident’s classification. Attend industry training and workshops to stay informed about billing changes. These steps are vital for optimizing SNF billing.

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Hall Render

AUGUST 10, 2023

In doing so, CMS will finalize changes to its rural floor wage index policy that can drastically change payments for certain hospitals and its extension of the wage index add-on for low-wage hospitals. CMS also uses the hospital wage index for the Outpatient Prospective Payment System. percentage points.

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HIT Consultant

APRIL 21, 2022

. – The data CMS uses to account for real inflation in the cost of labor and other expenses is unlikely to reflect reality and produce an accurate payment update for the FY 2023 IPPS rule, due this spring. CMS is expected to release proposed rules for the Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS). PINC AI™ Data Analysis.

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YouCompli

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

This is why Medicare publishes its rules on their Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) or its Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS). However, there are certain circumstances when Medicare, for example, will reimburse additional amounts beyond the prospective payment rate.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

As the authors of the HaH article assert, “at a societal level, HaH could help avoid billions in capital costs to build more brick-and-mortar hospitals,” I return to Roemer’s Law learned in graduate school that, in a volume-based payment system, “A built bed is a filled bed is a billed bed.”

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Redox

JANUARY 24, 2024

While most of the rule focuses on payer requirements, it also requires that Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) “Promoting Interoperability Program” eligible providers report on their use of Prior Authorization APIs in a new “Electronic Prior Authorization” measure. If you’d like to learn more about our solutions.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 27, 2023

"Once referred, patients then would meet with health coaches who would provide them with instructions on how to use their cellular-enabled blood pressure device, as well as education about their current BP medications, diet and exercise," she continued. Enterprise Taxonomy:

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 14, 2021

This is why, as the new year approaches, Healthcare IT News has sat down with an expert in value-based care to get his views on what 2022 will hold for the payment system. Caravan Health is a privately held company formed to create sustainable methodologies for health systems to excel in value-based care.

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Hall Render

AUGUST 11, 2023

On August 7, 2023, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) released a final rule (“Final Rule”) that updated Medicare payment policies and rates for skilled nursing facilities (“SNFs”) under the Skilled Nursing Facility Prospective Payment System (“SNF PPS”) for fiscal year (“FY”) 2024.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

Since implementation, the rural system has reduced days to payment by more than three days and reduced no-show rates nearly 3%. Healthcare management services company Care About selected Innovaccer for population health management. Houston’s Baylor College of Medicine chose Luna for in-home outpatient physical therapy.

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Hall Render

JULY 7, 2022

The Act specifies that REHs will be paid for outpatient services at 105% of the otherwise applicable rates under the Outpatient Prospective Payment System (“OPPS”). This facility payment will be adjusted each year by the annual hospital market basket update factor.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

"The ATA is working with Congress to add FQHCs and RHCs to statute and to ensure a fair permanent payment system, which is not currently reflected by the temporary payment created for the pandemic," said the ATA in the recommendations. THE LARGER TREND. ON THE RECORD. Twitter: @kjercich.

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Health Blawg

JULY 2, 2018

He gave a couple of specific examples: First, a Partners-Samsung partnership that used machine learning to mash up data about each patient and about the patient’s environment in order provide a personalized daily message encouraging patients to increase their physical activity levels.

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Health Blawg

JULY 2, 2018

He gave a couple of specific examples: First, a Partners-Samsung partnership that used machine learning to mash up data about each patient and about the patient’s environment in order provide a personalized daily message encouraging patients to increase their physical activity levels.

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Healthcare Law Blog

JANUARY 17, 2024

workflow assessment, data analytics, electronic health record consulting, compliance monitoring, biannual Medicare Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (“ MIPS ”) eligibility checks, annual MIPS-related training, auditing MIPS-related performance measures, and MIPS data submission support).

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 4, 2023

But what about the rest of the care experience? John spoke to Julius Dewavrin at Withings about the product’s benefits and its connection to home health. Consumer healthcare financing tool and Health Payment Systems subsidiary PayMedix raised a $25 million funding round.

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Health Blawg

JULY 2, 2018

He gave a couple of specific examples: First, a Partners-Samsung partnership that used machine learning to mash up data about each patient and about the patient’s environment in order provide a personalized daily message encouraging patients to increase their physical activity levels. Join the conversation on Twitter at #HarlowOnHC.

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Health Blawg

JULY 2, 2018

He gave a couple of specific examples: First, a Partners-Samsung partnership that used machine learning to mash up data about each patient and about the patient’s environment in order provide a personalized daily message encouraging patients to increase their physical activity levels. Join the conversation on Twitter at #HarlowOnHC.

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Health Blawg

JULY 2, 2018

He gave a couple of specific examples: First, a Partners-Samsung partnership that used machine learning to mash up data about each patient and about the patient’s environment in order provide a personalized daily message encouraging patients to increase their physical activity levels. Join the conversation on Twitter at #HarlowOnHC.

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Hall Render

MARCH 20, 2024

The Final Rule also imposes additional reporting requirements under the Medicare Promoting Interoperability Program for eligible hospitals and critical access hospitals and for eligible clinicians reporting under the Promoting Interoperability performance category of the Merit-Based Incentive Payment System.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 15, 2024

On the receiver side, XML, JSON files, or spreadsheet formats can be easily ingested into payment systems and parsed by patient, by procedure, or by other metrics. Once the initial setup is complete, files can be transmitted to the payer in the same way claims are sent to U.S.

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HIT Consultant

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

In just the first six months of 2022, the healthcare sector suffered about 337 breaches according to Fortified Health Security’s mid-year report. Not surprising, the healthcare industry gets hit the hardest with an average of $10.1 million per data breach. More than 19 million records were implicated.

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HIT Consultant

MAY 31, 2023

Healthcare operations, or the nonclinical processes that help keep hospitals and health systems running, are one area where software investments can provide significant value. Health system decision-makers must ensure that new software investments simplify their existing operations and provide a return on investment (ROI).

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 13, 2023

Yet, nearly 54% of those surveyed also said the accuracy of diagnosis was their top concern about the use of AI in healthcare (followed closely by data privacy, a top concern for half of respondents). Practice management vendor Practice Better launched Practice Better Payments , a fully integrated payment system.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Further, the right interoperable healthcare solutions and revenue cycle performance services can reduce the risk of Medicare Incentive Payment System (MIPS) and Meaningful Use Stage 3 (MU3) penalties. It can also reduce the number of days in accounts receivable for health systems.

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 6, 2022

With no buttons to push or cash to exchange, contactless options offer a safe and convenient method of payment. Additionally, the technology is capable of storing data for multiple payment methods and patient payment preferences, including details about payment plans, automatic payments, maximum payment limits and address information.

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