Etactics

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

The Department of Justice (DOJ) estimates that healthcare fraud generates close to $100 billion a year. In 2021 , there were… 831 new criminal healthcare fraud investigations 805 new civil healthcare fraud investigations With such high numbers of cases and no end seeming to be in sight, how can you avoid becoming a healthcare fraud statistic?

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Sheppard Health Law

JANUARY 6, 2023

trillion in funding across a range of domestic initiatives, including certain appropriations to healthcare and related programs. Key Funding of Related Healthcare Programs. On December 29, 2022 , President Biden signed the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023 (the “Act”). The Act provides for nearly $1.7 Telehealth.

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Patient Safety Movement

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

The PCAST report reveals that despite these efforts by many healthcare workers and organizations to reduce preventable medical errors through implementing evidence-based safety protocols, nationwide implementation of many of these known solutions has lagged. More than 40 percent of these events are due to preventable errors.

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Patient Safety Movement

AUGUST 29, 2023

Our founder, Joe Kiani, demanded that we call people in office at the local, state, and federal levels to hardwire patient safety; and align incentives so that every hospital puts in place actionable evidence-based incentives. 4C: Develop Federal Healthcare Delivery Systems’ capacities and showcase results as exemplars for safer healthcare.

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Patient Safety Movement

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

Beta Healthcare Symposium Joe Kiani also recently gave a keynote at Beta Healthcare Group’s 2023 Annual Member Symposium focused on “Strategies for Improving Patient & Employee Safety,” held in Dana Point, California. Through this year’s slogan “Elevate the voice of patients!”

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HIT Consultant

AUGUST 21, 2023

Jon Moore, MS, JD, HCISPP, Chief Risk Officer and SVP of Clearwater Recent advances in Generative AI Large Language Models, such as ChatGPT, have been making waves across various industries, not least in healthcare. Applications in Healthcare AI models are transforming healthcare with an increasing range of applications.

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Sheppard Health Law

JANUARY 5, 2022

Second, issuers only may count expenditures directly related to activities that improve healthcare quality. HHS would resume federal review of network adequacy of QHPs offered on federally-facilitated exchanges in 2023 (HHS previously had done so from 2015-2017).

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