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Hospitals make major gains on handwashing compliance, accountability, Leapfrog finds

Fierce Healthcare

Handwashing adherence is on the up-and-up as more hospitals are holding their leadership accountable for hand hygiene, patient safety watchdog The Leapfrog Group reports. |

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Industry Voices—9 strategies for integrating specialists into accountable care

Fierce Healthcare

Specialty care makes up a significant portion of healthcare spending, yet accountable care organizations (ACOs) often lack a specialty care strategy to lower costs and optimize specialty care.&nbsp

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Why You Shouldn't Blindly Trust Google to Automate Your Google Ads Account

Healthcare Success

Our team rescues these underperforming Google Ads accounts by removing the ineffective automations. It makes changes to your account without your direct knowledge and may even increase your ad budget to do so. We have found that this personalized approach is essential for optimal results.

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CMS holds accountable care organizations harmless for ‘highly suspect’ Medicare billing

Health Care Dive

Aberrant billing for urinary catheters last year could have made it harder for ACOs in Medicare to bring in shared savings. That’s no longer the case under a new final rule.

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Wyden urges feds to hold UnitedHealth execs accountable for cyberattack

Fierce Healthcare

Ron Wyden is calling on the FTC and the SEC to hold UnitedHealth Group accountable for "negligent cybersecurity practices" that allowed hackers to breach its Change Healthcare subsidiary. Oregon Sen. Oregon Sen.

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Medicare Advantage patients account for fewer avoidable hospitalizations. Here's why

Fierce Healthcare

Medicare Advantage patients account for fewer avoidable hospitalizations. Here's why rking Mon, 02/27/2023 - 17:41

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Compassus CEO: To ‘Grow Up,’ Home Health Industry Needs To Become Accountable

Home Health Care

In a lot of cases, the home-based care isn’t accountable. It doesn’t mean that we don’t care deeply about the outcomes for patients, just that the industry hasn’t matured to have accountable relationships. Certainly, there’s accountability to CMS for quality and those sorts of things.