Healthcare Compliance Blog

MARCH 15, 2022

The nursing hours per day per resident are a key component of a facility’s star rating evaluation, and are also used in some quality measure determination. Misrepresenting nursing hours per day can result in fines and other civil penalties. The accurate reporting of these hours to CMS is essential to avoid allegations of fraud.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 11, 2020

A number of issues added to the pressures and included a lack of critical care capacity - ICU beds per 100,000 in the UK (6.6) Region Tag: Europe/UK Custom Tags: COVID-19 Disable Auto Tagging: Short Headline: Nursing community collaboration on the European COVID-19 front-lines Featured Decision Content:

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HIT Consultant

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

An independent study of a bundled payment program for common, high-cost surgeries using select providers saved an average of more than $16,000 per procedure, including a 28% savings for patients through waived deductibles and co-pays and an 11% savings for employers on medical costs. per manual transaction — a 1,375% difference.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Regulators’ new strategy: assign five-figure fines per violation that most businesses can afford, and ramp up enforcement to make sure all organizations might receive a fine if they aren’t meeting their regulatory obligations.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 8, 2023

By Bill Siwicki | July 03, 2023 News TrueCare graduates half its home hypertension patients from RPM program, and counting The San Diego-based provider sees around 30 readings per patient per month, showing a high level of. million medication instructions without.

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Hall Render

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

States can require visitors to be tested before entering the SNF so long as rapid testing is available and if a rapid test isn’t available, the visitor must be allowed to visit the resident so long as the visitor doesn’t report any COVID-19 symptoms per Hall Render. Alexandria plans to redevelop the mall into a 2M sf campus per The Real Deal.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 15, 2023

And requests for patient data are predicted to intensify as health plans work to reduce per-member/per-month costs, earn higher STAR ratings, and meet the CMS 2030 value-based care goals. Medical record requests are digitized, and specific data requirements are tagged.

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Total Medical Compliance Resources

JANUARY 12, 2024

OSHA reports an average of one workplace electrocution fatality per day. Household appliances like space heaters, fans, microwaves, and heating pads can be used in the office; but to ensure they are as safe as possible they must have a tag from a national testing laboratory. A report from the U.S.

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Healthcare It News

AUGUST 23, 2021

" Glenn Tullman, digital health entrepreneur and founder of Livongo – which merged with Teladoc in 2020 – had this to say: "Big Tech was struggling in healthcare because patients' problems are more about the overall experience than technology, per se." Region Tag: Global Edition.

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HIT Consultant

APRIL 1, 2022

In the race to roll out telehealth offerings and digital patient engagement tools during the height of the pandemic, many providers and health plans inadvertently created a rag-tag assortment of patient portals, health apps and clunky websites that can be impossible to navigate and even more difficult to integrate with existing tech infrastructure.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 8, 2021

Goolsbee and Jason Furman, former Chair of Obama’s Council of Economic Advisers, tag-teamed the U.S. history that a downturn had nothing to do with the economy per se. economic outlook following today’s news that the U.S. The 2020-21 economic recession is the first time in U.S. ” COVID-19 is, indeed, a tough boss.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 4, 2021

Hospitals will negotiate hard with Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and Medicare Advantage plans to be paid on a per month basis to ensure there is a continuous revenue stream, moving away totally from a fee-for-service agreement. Nursing agreements will also see a change to avoid upfront costs and reduce overall costs.

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Healthcare It News

JANUARY 31, 2024

Early forays into the use of radio frequency identification (RFID) tagging in the healthcare industry were plagued with issues. SGTIN+, TIPP) will ensure increasing efficiency in organizations’ abilities to record, pull and store data from tags. “But RFID has changed considerably.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 30, 2023

The IIJA defines "unserved" as homes that lack access to broadband at 25 megabits per second download and 3 Mbps upload. Follow him on Twitter @cjsettles101 Region Tag: Global Edition Enterprise Taxonomy: Short Headline: NTIA hands over $45B to state broadband offices Featured Decision Content:

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Health Populi

JULY 20, 2018

Tech companies like Apple, Google, Samsung and Withings are competing with fashion watch purveyors like Fossil (which boasts dozens of popular brands like Burberry, DKNY, Armani, Diesel, Tory Burch, Kate Spade, Callaway Golf, Skagen, Michele and Adidas, among others) and Tag Heuer.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 13, 2021

About 20,000 people per 100,000 experience some mental illness, but are just 268 mental health providers for every 100,000 people in the U.S. Region Tag: Global Edition. Use these stations in natural disasters when people could be isolated from any medical help for days or weeks. Expanding efficiency of mental healthcare delivery.

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HIT Consultant

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Today, the cost of a data breach comes with a hefty price tag – an average of $9.44 million per data breach. A lack of regulatory compliance, network and technical vulnerabilities, unencrypted information, unsecured mobile devices, and weak credentials all play a part in putting a healthcare organization at risk for a data breach.

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Hall Render

JANUARY 6, 2023

Per ColoradoBiz , life science companies are searching for about 1.2 Becker’s published a roundup of over 100 hospital and health system projects costing $100 million or more in 2022 , including 20 with a price tag north of $1 billion. Colorado’s fast-paced life sciences growth has created a huge demand for real estate. million.

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HIT Consultant

JULY 26, 2022

Less than 30% of prescriptions are taken properly, per the report. Phone tags and missed calls are common. It costs the healthcare system $300 billion annually, according to Healthcare Finance Report – and that number is set to spike with the increase in remote care. There’s a better way to leverage the expertise of nurses.

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Med-Net Compliance

JULY 25, 2022

Audit to ensure that timely response to record requests occurs per CMS time frames, and report audit results to the QAPI/QAA Committee. . After receiving a request, an entity that is regulated by HIPAA has, absent an extension, 30 days to provide an individual or their representative with their records in a timely manner.

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SQA

JULY 19, 2023

When I arrived in Hawthorne at SpaceX headquarters, the company was gearing up for their 6 th flight of Falcon 9, and they had achieved a launch rate of 2-3 per year. Elon’s goal, however, was to increase to a rate of 2-3 launches per week. Tag us on social media with #SQAAlreadyHere, or email your photos to media@sqaservices.com.

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Health Populi

MARCH 21, 2019

per average internet user per month in 2025, $3.18 The tag line of the book is how AI can help humanize health care. He shared this image from Cracked Labs which illustrates the many data sources beyond the legacy health care claim that stakeholders can access and, if used for good, can benefit patient care and health outcomes.

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Health Populi

MARCH 19, 2019

The point here is that private-label aspirin costs about five cents per tablet. For example, Anthem and Walmart introduced the Healthy Benefits program, a card that covers $50 to $330 of OTC spending per quarter depending on the plan. “But we wouldn’t want to pay a value-based price for aspirin.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 23, 2022

As one of the top surgery centers in the nation per Newsweek for both 2021 and 2022, The Surgical Center at?Columbia "We didn't want to complete surgeries in a transactional way, without any intimacy or continued communication with the patient to ensure they were experiencing excellent results," he added.

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 19, 2024

Instead of consolidating the data into centralized storage repositories – such as “cold” data storage tiers in the cloud – where monthly storage fees are just fractions of a penny per gigabyte, enterprises may be left paying many times that amount due to their inability to easily move data to a more cost-effective storage solution.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 10, 2022

They are using their federal American Rescue Plan Act funds to build a huge 100 gigabit per second network – upload AND download speeds – that feeds every home. Per second! Region Tag: Global Edition. Grayson, Kentucky has a population of 4,217. By one guesstimate, that’s 100,000 written novels.

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HIT Consultant

AUGUST 24, 2023

Beneficial visibility is achieved through IoT-enabled location technology, badges, tags, and sensors. Through these efforts, Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist experiences a savings of more than $900,000 per year simply from its automating temperature monitoring processes.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 14, 2020

In April and May alone, more than 60,000 video visits occurred, averaging more than 1,000 per day. In the month before COVID-19 created operational and innovative changes, Geisinger averaged 27 video visits per day. Geisinger also deployed a variety of efforts to improve remote patient-monitoring and overall care at home.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 2, 2020

A few weeks ago the World Health Organisation (WHO) commended the UAE for leading the way in COVID-19 by conducting the highest level of testing per million in the world, which is an effective strategy of keeping track of the virus, which is pertinent to knowing the necessary measures to take in combating the epidemic.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 19, 2021

My staff knows to tag me in any questions that are outside the norm so the answer comes from me. "With this, I can monitor all communication with patients in real time, intervene when needed, and correct information that the patient gets that is not standardized. " ADVICE FOR OTHERS.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 16, 2021

A research study showed that telehealth visits for the most common health conditions save employers an average of $472 per visit. Region Tag: Global Edition. Dr. Archie Adams is a board-certified occupational medicine provider. He currently sees patients at MultiCare Centers of Occupational Medicine in Puyallup, Washington.

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Healthcare Law Blog

JANUARY 13, 2023

Yet, per Russell Glass, the CEO of Headspace Health, the systems we have are not structured to support the full need we have today for mental healthcare services. There are a lot of “blockbuster” drugs coming to market today and in the near future with eye-watering price tags.

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Hall Render

JANUARY 6, 2022

Survey Guidance for Skilled Nursing Facilities – New F Tag 888. Attachment A introduces a new citation tag for skilled nursing providers, F Tag 888, regarding infection control under CFR §483.80(i). The QSO Memo includes multiple attachments, each focused on a specific provider type. i)(3)(iv)].

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 6, 2020

Any abnormal responses or vital stats are tagged and reported to: a healthcare organization partnering with the employer, a clinician on the employer’s staff, or a human resources professional, for a referral to a COVID-19 testing site to confirm an infection and prevent spreading the virus in the workplace. iRhythm Technologies.

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Hall Render

MARCH 22, 2024

Nevada Medicaid must cover abortion services, judge rules Clark County health rankings improve, but physicians per capita still well below U.S.

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