Fierce Healthcare
OCTOBER 18, 2023
Seniors are forced to navigate a convoluted Medicare Advantage (MA) landscape for healthcare coverage, often only to be denied care, experts told legislators during a Senate Finance Committee heari | Senators and experts agreed Wednesday that marketing practices from Medicare Advantage plans are often overwhelming for seniors.
Health Care Dive
OCTOBER 18, 2023
The average premium was nearly $8,500 for single coverage and nearly $24,000 for family coverage this year, according to a new study published in Health Affairs.
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Fierce Healthcare
OCTOBER 18, 2023
Henry Ford Health is coming together with several of Ascension Michigan’s hospitals and other facilities to form a joint venture with over $10.5 billion in annual operating revenue, the organizatio | Should the deal close, the resulting organization would span 13 acute care hospitals and over 550 sites of care. The nonprofits stressed that the arrangement is not a merger and that "no cash transaction" would take place.
Health Care Dive
OCTOBER 18, 2023
The insurer is actively seeking ways to mitigate the financial impact of its star ratings drop, Elevance CEO Gail Boudreaux said during the insurer’s third-quarter earnings call.
Speaker: Simran Kaur, Founder & CEO at Tattva Health Inc.
The healthcare landscape is being revolutionized by AI and cutting-edge digital technologies, reshaping how patients receive care and interact with providers. In this webinar led by Simran Kaur, we will explore how AI-driven solutions are enhancing patient communication, improving care quality, and empowering preventive and predictive medicine. You'll also learn how AI is streamlining healthcare processes, helping providers offer more efficient, personalized care and enabling faster, data-driven
Fierce Healthcare
OCTOBER 18, 2023
CalOptima Health, the Medi-Cal managed care plan for Orange County, is awarding $52.3 million in grants to accelerate the creation of affordable and permanent housing. | The grants will go to 15 grantees to acquire, construct and upgrade a total of 706 housing units to support people experiencing homelessness.
Health Care Dive
OCTOBER 18, 2023
The zero-dollar premium plans will be available in 10 counties in Arizona, California, Florida and Texas starting next year.
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Healthcare It News
OCTOBER 18, 2023
According to dHealth Foundation director and cofounder Quy Vo-Reinhard, for regulators and users to keep up with emerging technologies like blockchain and smart contracts there needs to be an emphasis on education.
Fierce Healthcare
OCTOBER 18, 2023
Elevance Health reported $1.3 billion in profit for the third quarter, beating the Street but falling short of the prior-year quarter's haul. | Elevance Health reported $1.3 billion in profit for the third quarter, beating the Street but falling short of the prior-year quarter's haul.
Health Care Dive
OCTOBER 18, 2023
The incident affected a portion of the company’s manufacturing and distribution businesses.
Fierce Healthcare
OCTOBER 18, 2023
Healthcare payment software maker Waystar filed for an initial public offering, signaling a potential end to the dry spell in the health tech IPO market. | Healthcare payment software maker Waystar filed for an initial public offering, signaling a potential end to the dry spell in the health tech IPO market.
Speaker: Kaitlin Ruby Carroll
Retaining top talent in 2025 means rethinking benefits. In a competitive job market, fertility benefits are more than just offerings - they are a commitment to your team’s well-being. Gain critical insights into the latest fertility benefits strategies that can help position your organization as an industry leader. Our expert will explore the unique advantages and challenges of each model, share success stories from top organizations, and offer practical strategies to make benefits decisions tha
CDC
OCTOBER 18, 2023
Two hospitals in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, are demonstrating that even when access to resources is limited, commitment to infection prevention and control (IPC) practices makes combating antimicrobial resistance (AR) possible. Antimicrobial-resistant bacteria can cause severe, hard-to-treat infections. They were associated with almost 5 million deaths worldwide in 2019.
Fierce Healthcare
OCTOBER 18, 2023
Conquering 5 Common Healthcare Marketing Challenges | Healthcare marketing is tough. Learn about 5 common healthcare marketing challenges and how health education content helps you face them head-on.
Home Health Care
OCTOBER 18, 2023
While many health systems offloaded ancillary service lines following the pandemic, Advocate Aurora Health and Atrium Health doubled down on home-based care. Those companies merging, and creating “Advocate Health,” has created one of the largest health systems in the U.S. But the merger has also formed an organization with a strong and wide commitment to home-based care.
Fierce Healthcare
OCTOBER 18, 2023
Bicycle Health, a virtual provider of opioid use disorder (OUD) care, is teaming up with Override Health, a virtual chronic pain management clinic, for a bidirectional patient referral relationship | Bicycle will refer patients to Override for chronic pain care, while Override will refer patients in need of OUD treatment to Bicycle. The partners’ goal is to increase access to chronic pain care and OUD treatment, two areas they say have a lot of patients in common.
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HIT Consultant
OCTOBER 18, 2023
Hilton Hudson, MD, FACS, and CEO of HPC International In May 2022, a California doctor was sentenced to nearly eight years in prison for his involvement in a $12 million Medicare fraud scheme. His crime: performing unnecessary vein ablation procedures on patients, and using incorrect billing codes to receive larger reimbursements. He received $4.5 million in reimbursements from Medicare over a three-year period.
Fierce Healthcare
OCTOBER 18, 2023
On Wednesday, World Menopause Day, two healthcare partners unveiled their collaboration to help patients going through midlife hormonal transitions. | Patients will be able to access Midi’s telehealth services directly through Midi or by getting a referral from their Memorial Hermann-affiliated physician. All services are covered by insurance in Texas under major PPO plans.
Home Health Care
OCTOBER 18, 2023
For patients and providers, working through the post-acute health care system in the U.S. is a tall task. It often involves a wide range of providers and vendors. There’s lots of talk around interoperability in these circles, but that goal of seamless coordination is generally not met on the ground. Generally, interoperability refers to the ability of different health care information systems to communicate, exchange data and leverage that information in a way that provides effective care across
Fierce Healthcare
OCTOBER 18, 2023
Waymark, a Medicare-focused provider enablement company, has secured $42 million in fresh funding that it plans to use to continue scaling its offering. | Waymark, a Medicare-focused provider enablement company, has secured $42 million in fresh funding that it plans to use to continue scaling its offering.
Speaker: Joe Sharpe and James Carlson
Payroll optimization can be one of the most time-consuming and complex factors of small business management. Yet, organizations that crack the code on streamlining employee compensation often discover innovative avenues for growth. With the right strategies in place, outsourcing and streamlining payroll processes can result in substantial time and resource savings.
HIT Consultant
OCTOBER 18, 2023
What You Should Know: – InfoBionic , a digital health company focused on virtual telemetry and cardiac remote patient monitoring closes its Series D financing round. The series D funding round includes participation by Security International Investments (SII), Mayo Clinic and Excel Venture Management while distinguished existing investors like Blue Cross Blue Shield of MA (Zaffre Investments), Blue Cross Blue Shield of Kansas and Safeguard Scientifics remain actively involved. – The
Fierce Healthcare
OCTOBER 18, 2023
Family premiums for employer plans are set to rise by 7% on average this year, one year after virtually no growth, according to a
HIT Consultant
OCTOBER 18, 2023
Jason Kang, Co-founder & Chief Innovation Officer at Kinnos Concerns about deadly fungal infections are growing nearly as fast as the outbreaks themselves. From popular television shows to recent articles in the Wall Street Journal and Fast Company , the attention has been swift and breathless. Unfortunately, lost in the scramble to highlight their potency and develop a cure has been any agreement on an effective strategy for cutting into their spread.
Health IT Analytics
OCTOBER 18, 2023
An automated, AI-based pain recognition system may provide an unbiased approach to assess patients’ pain and decrease hospital length of stay.
Speaker: Andrea Wuchiski
In an era where a workforce spans multiple generations, HR managers and Total Rewards leaders face the unique challenge of designing benefits packages that cater to diverse employee needs. This session will delve into how comprehensive fertility benefits can bridge generational gaps, support employees’ health, and enhance workplace satisfaction. Join us for an insightful session that highlights the strategic importance of fertility benefits in today’s competitive job market.
HIT Consultant
OCTOBER 18, 2023
Chris Oskuie, VP, State & Local Government &Education Sales at Software AG Government Solutions As a result of the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA), Medicaid programs were required to keep citizens continuously enrolled through the COVID-19 public health emergency (PHE). These continuous enrollments ended on March 31, 2023, resulting in what many call the unwinding of Medicaid.
Home Health Care
OCTOBER 18, 2023
WellBe Senior Medical is expanding its footprint, this time through an entrance into Oregon. “We’re working on additional expansions, likely to come in 2024, that will bring us into Washington, and a couple other states out in the Pacific Northwest,” Mike Stuart, chief growth officer at WellBe, told Home Health Care News. “We’re excited to get started in Oregon.
Healthy Debate
OCTOBER 18, 2023
No system can cover all the health needs of every person all the time. It's time for difficult conversations about our health-care system.
Healthcare Leadership Council
OCTOBER 18, 2023
After over a decade of projecting that the models initiated by the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) would reduce Medicare spending, eyebrows were raised in health policy circles when the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) issued a recent report estimating that in its first decade of operation, CMMI’s efforts had actually elevated federal spending by $5.4 billion between 2011 and 2020.
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Cloud Blogs
OCTOBER 18, 2023
In the face of an ever-changing and dynamic market, Microsoft Industry Clouds are helping customers and partners across multiple industries thrive. We’re delivering technological innovation to help every organization build resilience to weather uncertainty and accelerate digital transformation. New capabilities within the 2023 release wave 2—coming available from October 1, 2023, to March 31, 2024.
HIStalk
OCTOBER 18, 2023
News OpenAI adds voice capabilities to the ChatGPT mobile app,
Healthcare ECONOMIST
OCTOBER 18, 2023
That is the title of a study presented this week at the Obesity Week conference. This is work used a distributional cost effectiveness analysis approach for measuring the value of semaglutide 2.4 mg for the treatment of patients with obesity and overweight. It was conducted with co-authors Joshua Toliver, Mads Faurby, Jaehong Kim, Sanjana Muthukrishnan and Sean D.
HIT Consultant
OCTOBER 18, 2023
What You Should Know: – Avidex , a provider of audiovisual and interactive patient care solutions, and Artisight , an AI-powered smart hospital platform announced a strategic partnership. – Avidex and Artisight will harness the strengths of both companies to provide a turnkey virtual care solution. Avidex will take on the role of the in-room technology integrator, leveraging its expertise to install and support the solution’s essential AV equipment and platform integration of i
Speaker: Sean Raible
Picture a workplace where physiological safety is not just an aim but a reality, driven by thoughtful employee benefits that prioritize mental health, wellbeing, and DEI. 🤔 ✨ Achieving this vision requires more than just occasional training sessions and employee assistance programs. Moving beyond the basics, this vision calls for a holistic approach that integrates these elements into your company culture as well as your HR and benefits strategy.
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