Fri.May 10, 2024

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Some Ascension hospitals diverting emergency care after cybersecurity incident

Health Care Dive

The health system’s electronic health records, MyChart patient portal and several systems for ordering tests and medications are unavailable, Ascension said.

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Payer Roundup—Iowa extends postpartum Medicaid coverage; Aetna settles fertility lawsuit

Fierce Healthcare

Below is a roundup of payer-centric news headlines you may have missed during the month of May 2024. | This month, Iowa signed into a law a postpartum Medicaid expansion, L.A. Care Health commited $3 million to providers, Aetna settled a lawsuit alleging fertility discrimination, a former NBA champion was sentenced to prison and more.

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CHS sues MultiPlan for allegedly colluding to lower provider reimbursement

Health Care Dive

It’s the third lawsuit filed against MultiPlan by a health system in under a year.

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Industry Voices—Nurses’ vital role in the success of AI

Fierce Healthcare

For over a decade, I worked as a nurse in a Primary Stroke Center caring for critically ill cardiac and stroke patients. | Nurses—and the entire clinical and operational team—need to be involved in the vetting process early on to ensure that investments in new AI technology will improve their workflow and, most importantly, patient outcomes.

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How to Battle Layoffs: The Career Star Accelerator Bootcamp

Facing layoffs in your organization? Support your team members' career transition with Career Star Accelerator Bootcamp: Custom Resume & LinkedIn Revamp + 6 Weeks of Career Coaching. Our certified resume writers will create job search-winning resumes and LinkedIn profiles while they work with a career coach to learn unique strategies to stand out, attract the right employers, automate their job search, and land their dream job.

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AI could help assess patient acuity in emergency departments: study

Health Care Dive

When given pairs of patient histories, a large language model could identify which patient needed to be seen more urgently with 89% accuracy.

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New specialty care provider Harmonia Healthcare opens clinic to treat extreme morning sickness

Fierce Healthcare

Harmonia Healthcare, a new provider focused on specialty women’s health, has opened a clinic in New Jersey to treat hyperemesis gravidarum. | Harmonia Healthcare's new clinic will treat hyperemesis gravidarum—the severe nausea and vomiting during pregnancy that can lead to hospitalization.

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How to Interview Healthcare Experts to Write Exceptional Website Content

Healthcare Success

Interviewing medical experts is a tried-and-true way to produce original website content. Without that first-hand, unique, and accurate medical knowledge, your content can unintentionally mislead consumers, damage your reputation, and lose search engine rankings. But what if the experts your organization needs are busy doctors? Or you need help building a content strategy?

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MGB brings in $5.1B in operating revenue boosted by inpatient capacity management, ACO membership

Fierce Healthcare

Mass General Brigham’s operations squeezed into the black during the quarter ended March 31 as its hospitals work to manage bed capacity and its insurance business more than doubled premiums. | The integrated nonprofit system logged a 5% year-over-year rise in net patient service revenue and a 133% increase in insurance premiums during the second quarter of its 2024 fiscal year.

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‘Perpetuity Of Uncertainty’: Home Health Providers Await Another Poor Payment Proposal While Left In Limbo On Massive Clawbacks

Home Health Care

This article is a part of your HHCN+ Membership The Medicaid Access Rule has been finalized, with six years until the implementation of the 80-20 provision. There’s no time to rest for home-based care providers and advocates on the regulation front, however. Summer is near, and that means so is the home health proposed payment rule from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).

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Chutes & Ladders—Amazon Clinic exec exits; new director at Cedars-Sinai

Fierce Healthcare

Welcome to this week's Chutes & Ladders, our roundup of hirings, firings and retirings throughout the industry.

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5 Essentials for Healthcare CIOs: A Provider Data Management Checklist

Complete and accurate provider data is essential for health organizations to operate effectively. A better understanding of your provider network helps to understand patients and consumers, identify gaps in care, and make the best possible decisions for your businesses. A modern provider data management solution should power a complete and accurate view of each of your providers, make this data easily accessible across functional groups, and be flexible and agile enough to scale. with your needs

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Appointment Adherence With Streamlined Reminders and Follow-Ups from Your Call Center

Sequence Health

In the healthcare industry, ensuring patients adhere to their scheduled appointments is crucial for both their health outcomes and the efficiency of medical practices. Missed appointments can lead to delays in treatment, increased healthcare costs, and suboptimal use of resources. Fortunately, call centers improve appointment adherence through effective scheduling, reminders, and follow-up communications.

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Thinking Ahead on the AHEAD Model: Primary Care AHEAD

NASHP

Considerations for States Interested in Applying for the States Advancing All-Payer Health Equity Approaches and Development (AHEAD) Model In September 2023, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced its latest total cost-of-care model, the States Advancing All-Payer Health Equity Approaches and Development (AHEAD) Model, with the goals of slowing growth in health care costs, improving population health, and advancing health equity ( see NASHP’s summary of the model ).

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Baptist Health Expands Telehealth Devices to Over 700 Bedsides with Caregility

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Baptist Health , a leading healthcare system in Arkansas, and Caregility , a provider of intelligent telehealth devices, today announced a significant expansion of their partnership. This collaboration aims to transform patient care delivery by leveraging telehealth technology across Baptist Health’s entire network of hospitals. – Caregility Cloud™ is a trusted platform used by over 1,000 hospitals across the US.

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[ANSWERED] What is Remittance Advice?

Etactics

Receiving payment is important, no matter what industry you’re in. Any industry where goods or services are being exchanged for payment uses some form of remittance. The process is necessary to ensure that payments are being made and processed correctly all within a timely manner as well. Remittance is also good to have for recordkeeping. Remittance literally means to pay back.

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Remote Diabetes Monitoring: Senseonics Partners with Rimidi to Enhance Diabetes Care

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Senseonics Holdings, Inc. , a provider of long-term implantable continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) systems, today announced a strategic partnership with Rimidi. Rimidi offers a comprehensive clinical management platform designed to improve chronic disease management for patients and healthcare providers. – The collaboration aims to develop the Eversense® Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) Program , which will integrate seamlessly with existing healthcare workflo

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CMS Guidance on IRA Price Negotiation: Part 2

Healthcare ECONOMIST

What data do drug manufacturers need to submit to CMS as part of the IRA price negotiation? What data elements can they electively submit? The recent CMS guidance released May 3, 2024 outlines these elements. What mandatory data are manufacturers required to submit? On the mandatory side, drug manufacturers are required to provide CMS with the following types of data: Research and development (R&D) costs of the Primary Manufacturer for the selected drug and the extent to which the Primary Ma

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Thank You, Nurses!

Briggs Healthcare

As we near the end of nurses’ week, the team at Briggs Healthcare would like to thank each of you for the dedication, care, and compassion you show your patients and residents each day. Your selfless commitment to this profession does not go unnoticed and while this week only comes around once a year, our gratitude for you continues… always. We hope you enjoyed many celebrations and heartfelt tributes throughout the week in honor of your devotion and strength as nurses.

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The benefits of home-based, tech-enabled care for depression

Healthcare It News

When people think of patients being treated for depression, usually what comes to mind is someone sitting in weekly therapy sessions, and perhaps being prescribed a medication. But some clinicians and technologists see other ways to help patients manage depression. One alternative approach to treating depression is called precision psychiatry. It uses clinically reliable indicators of brain function to develop objective, brain-based patient categories – known as neurotypes – to targe

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A Guide to Improved Sepsis Detection & Compliance: 6 Areas You Should Address

This guide highlights key areas that your sepsis detection platform should address to minimize the impact of this leading, entirely preventable cause of in-hospital deaths, as well as how to increase compliance by 20% in 30 days. Download to learn more!

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CANCELLED: Next Skilled Nursing Facilities/Long Term Care Open Door Forum will be May 16th

Briggs Healthcare

The Skilled Nursing Facilities/Long Term Care Open Door Forum has been cancelled for May 16, 2024 2:00pm-3:00pm ET. The registration webpage has been updated. Thank you.

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‘It’s A Priority’: Where Revenue Diversification Has Led Avid Health at Home

Home Health Care

At a time when many home care providers are shutting the door on Medicare Advantage (MA), Avid Health at Home has managed to go the other way. Avid Health at Home is a home care platform backed by Havencrest Capital. The company believes that demonstrating its value through data could be what puts it in the right positions with MA plans. In the meantime, the company has also been bullish about forming partnerships with hospital systems, ACOs and other home-based care providers.

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