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HIMSS TV 2023 Forecast: Balancing Patient Privacy and Data Sharing

MRO Compliance

Best practices are provided for data tagging to ease searchability and reduce duplicate records. Prior authorization changes may open the door for privacy leaks. The proposed changes to prior authorization should streamline the process, thus relieving patient frustrations in trying to receive care.

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Residential Care Facilities Must Comply with Recent MDHHS Emergency Order

Foster Swift

As noted in a prior blog post , the Michigan Supreme Court recently held that Governor Whitmer did not have authority after April 30, 2020 to issue or renew any executive orders related to the COVID-19 pandemic. Read More › Tags: Alerts and Updates , Compliance , Health Care Reform , Legislative Updates , Long-Term Care , News.

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Electronic Transactions Can Benefit Partnership Among Physicians, Insurers and TPAs

HIT Consultant

Even before the pandemic, barriers to care and prompt reimbursement were sprouting everywhere, from the widespread use of prior authorization to qualify for care, to documentation hassles, to paper-based claims and reimbursements that create unnecessary administrative burdens and delays in payment. billion a year.

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Nursing Home Update: CMS Unwinds Vaccine Mandate and More Regulations as Public Health Emergency End Nears

Hall Render

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Bonus Features – October 30, 2022 – 46% of Americans have gone into debt paying medical bills, 41% say retail and virtual care experiences are disjointed, and more

Healthcare IT Today

DoseData released an RFID-tagged drug database to help pharma companies monitor drug supplies within hospital inventory systems. Cohere Health expanded its relationship with Humana , which will now use the vendor’s tools to support cardiovascular and surgical service prior authorization.

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What Are The Current Regulatory Changes And Compliance Requirements That ASCs Need To Be Aware Of In Their Billing Practices?

Healthcare IT Today

ASCA members can view an ASC-specific surveyor tag tool. They follow Medicare reimbursement policies, coding and documentation guidelines, HIPAA compliance, fraud, and abuse prevention, prior authorization, and state-specific regulations. ASCs can reduce errors and non-compliance by partnering with such providers.

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Healthcare is broken. Electronic prior authorization might be the first step in fixing it.

Redox

Payers, providers, regulators, and patients rarely agree, but they are united in their disdain for prior authorization. Prior authorization “is a non-computerized kabuki of payment” that “needs to get rethought.” What is prior authorization? It might, quite literally, be the worst.