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Pandemic Pivot to Telemedicine Creates New Compliance Issues for Healthcare Providers

McBrayer Law Blog

In April of 2019, the Centers of Medicare and Medicaid Service (CMS) finalized rules to increase telehealth benefits for Medicare Advantage enrollees, effectively incentivizing health systems with high numbers of private Medicare plan recipients to invest in telehealth services.

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Patient experience: new perspectives on person-focused care

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Health IT and racial justice: Expanding access, ending disparities, empowering communities. News Cedars Sinai's real-time ER feedback platform helps improve patient satisfaction The health system uses quick text message surveys throughout the emergency department experience to. By HIMSS Media | December 01, 2021.

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CNA Prosecuted by AG for Stealing from Resident in Nursing Home

Healthcare Compliance Blog

The Oklahoma Attorney General Medicaid Fraud Control Unit (MFCU) initiated the investigation after a referral was received by the Oklahoma State Department of Health – Protective Health Services Long-Term Care regarding the report of a nursing home resident missing money from her room.

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Episode 23: The Emerging Investigatory Focus on Telehealth: What You Need to Know

Healthcare Law Today

Previously, Mr. Josephs spent sixteen years at the United States Department of Justice, where he was first a civil litigator and then a criminal prosecutor of consumer-related fraud. He also served as an instructor in civil and criminal litigation topics at the renowned Justice Department training center.

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Aspects of Social Determinants of Health: An Introduction

Healthcare IT Today

The Healthy People project of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) now incorporates SDoH. The CDC has an Environmental Justice Index to find correlations between environmental problems and health. Another report from CODE calls for better tagging of data with SDoH. See a survey cosponsored by Genpact.)

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Health Provider News

Hall Render

Vincent North in Sherwood Washington Regional Medical System Names Lucas Campbell as VP & Chief Transformation Officer 4 more Arkansas hospitals awarded federal funds Arkansas Legislative Council approves Department of Human Services’ requests for $13.4M Mary’s Hospital security guard stabbed; 18-year-old man arrested HSHS St.

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Safe Haven Laws and Anti-Abortion Politics

Bill of Health

Jackson Women’s Health , Justice Amy Coney Barrett acknowledged that previous cases addressing abortion rights relied on a consideration of the burden of parenting and forced motherhood. For Justice Coney Barrett, this consideration was a non sequitur: “Why don’t safe haven laws take care of that problem?”.