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OIG, in a Departure, Approves Hospital Provision of Nurse Practitioner Services

McBrayer Law Blog

Department of Health and Human Services (“OIG”) would take a hard stance on any arrangements that might involve some form of remuneration from a hospital to a referring physician, but the winds of change may be blowing.

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The $2.8M Medicine: How Data Can Help Insurers Pay for Life-Changing Therapies Without Breaking The Bank

HIT Consultant

Many of these treatments are drug-based gene therapies–- but they come with an extremely high price tag. Treatment with Zolgensma, a gene therapy treatment which has been shown to be effective in treating SMA, costs $2 million – a very high price tag. million gene therapy to treat a rare blood disorder. .

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Malnutrition Diagnosis Codes: The Compliance Danger You’re Not Taking Seriously Enough

McBrayer Law Blog

Posted In Code Enforcement , Hospitals It may seem like hair-splitting, but including the wrong diagnostic codes for malnutrition on hospital inpatient claims – using codes for severe malnutrition in place of other forms of malnutrition – is a costly mistake.

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Grand challenges and opportunities for patient-centered CDS

Healthcare It News

To ensure PC CDS interventions measurably improve clinician and patient decision-making and health outcomes, we need to accurately measure and monitor the performance of the various forms of PC CDS. But there is a dearth of evidence on what forms of PC CDS work best for different clinical conditions and patient preferences.

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How to Package and Price Embedded Analytics

Just by embedding analytics, application owners can charge 24% more for their product. How much value could you add? This framework explains how application enhancements can extend your product offerings. Brought to you by Logi Analytics.

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Hospital at Home: Prospects and Challenges, and Learnings from Best Buy Health

Health Populi

Varda Shalev of Team8 discussed prospects for Care At Home Transformed tag-teaming with Deborah Di Sanzo, President of Best Buy Health. “It is now time to rigorously evaluate their ability to become a permanent alternative form of acute care management,” they conclude in a call-to-action.

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It’s Time to Give Patients “Admin Access” to Manage Their Healthcare

HIT Consultant

It involves automating the most time-consuming forms of outreach and giving patients “admin” access so that they can self-service various functions at the touch of a button (via a text or chatbot). Playing phone tag and digging up yet another username and password combination is not the kind of active involvement patients are seeking.