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Enhancing Physical Therapy With Artificial Intelligence

HIT Consultant

In a profession like physical therapy, which at its core is grounded in empathy and patient rapport, the impact of such a future becomes amplified. And its current advancements simply cannot be ignored, even in physical therapy. Can AI actually benefit physical therapy and its clinicians?

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Care coordination: What's needed to succeed with accountable care and home health?

Healthcare It News

Care coordination is becoming increasingly important in U.S. healthcare for a variety of reasons, including the increased use of value-based care models, the behavioral care shortage and a boom in home healthcare. In the home, all those different services need to be coordinated a la carte. This is hard to do.

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Study: In-Home Outpatient PT Reduces Costs By 52% Compared To Traditional Home Health Services

Home Health Care

A new study from the on-demand physical therapy company Luna found that in-home outpatient PT models can reduce costs by 52% compared to traditional home health services for total knee and hip replacements. Home health has a very important value,” Palak Shah, Luna’s co-founder and head of clinical services, told Home Health Care News.

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14 Ways to Reduce Long Patient Wait Times

Healthcare Success

It is well-established that longer patient wait times negatively impact patient satisfaction , specifically regarding patient confidence (in the provider) and perceived quality of care. urgent care centers and Telehealth), are giving healthcare consumers what they want—often before they even know they want it. .

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Managed Care Contracts Fueling Growth For Continuous Home Care

Home Health Care

Over the last decade, Putman — now CEO of Continuous — has relied heavily on building strong relationships with payers, accountable care organizations (ACOs) and care management companies. When Putman started, the revenue breakdown was about 60% Medicare and 40% managed care.

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CMS Promotes Competition, Transparency, Health Equity and More in the CY2025 Medicare Advantage and Part D Proposed Rule

Sheppard Health Law

Thus, beginning in 2025, the FMV would be increased to account for administrative payments included under the compensation rate, beginning at $31 and updated annually. For example, in 2021, CMS implemented an initiative to transition enrollees from D-SNP look-alike plans to other MA plans, including traditional D-SNP plans. [8]