Fierce Healthcare
JUNE 28, 2024
The U.S. Supreme Court, by a vote of 6-3, has overturned the Chevron deference, stripping power from federal agencies to interpret and enforce regulations. | The U.S. Supreme Court is overruling long-standing precedent. Here's how it could affect healthcare policy.
Health Care Dive
JUNE 28, 2024
Steward has been gunning for the deal since March. Without Optum at the table, it’s unclear who will buy the struggling health system’s medical clinics.
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Healthcare It News
JUNE 28, 2024
Dr. Geeta Nayyar – known by many as "Dr. G" – has a long track record as a physician IT leader, who thinks creatively about the intersection of technology and healthcare. Her jobs over the years have included serving as chief medical officer of tech giants such a AT&T and Salesforce and AT&T. She sits on the board of the American Telemedicine Association.
Health Care Dive
JUNE 28, 2024
The court’s controversial decision raises the bar for healthcare regulators when they’re implementing laws with undefined terms — and opens the door for stakeholders in the industry to sue when they’re unhappy with an agency’s reading of statute.
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Healthcare It News
JUNE 28, 2024
Patient intake, and the associated manual tasks that come upfront before a medical visit, represents a key component of a health system's operational efficiency and clinical quality. As a result, some hospitals and primary care clinics are experimenting with artificial intelligence and large language models to focus on note-taking and scribe work.
Health Care Dive
JUNE 28, 2024
The reorganization could create a new source of potential customers for primary care chain One Medical.
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Health Care Dive
JUNE 28, 2024
The telehealth vendor’s stock price has declined significantly since 2020. It received a warning this spring that its stock was trading below minimum standards, and could be removed from trading.
Healthcare It News
JUNE 28, 2024
The HIMSS AI in Healthcare Forum is scheduled to take place September 5-6 in Boston. Learn more and register.
Health Care Dive
JUNE 28, 2024
The UnitedHealth pharmacy benefit manager did not have to admit guilt as part of the settlement, which amounts to a minuscule fraction of its annual revenue.
Fierce Healthcare
JUNE 28, 2024
Attorney General Merrick Garland announced Thursday a two-week operation in which 193 people across the country, including 76 licensed healthcare providers, were charged for their alleged participa | The cases highlighted by law enforcement involved medically unnecessary amniotic wound grafts, diverted HIV medications, online distribution of Adderall and other telemedicine schemes.
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Healthcare It News
JUNE 28, 2024
The HIMSS AI in Healthcare Forum is scheduled to take place September 5-6 in Boston. Learn more and register.
Fierce Healthcare
JUNE 28, 2024
UnitedHealth Group’s Optum is walking away from its tentative deal to purchase the bankrupt Steward Health Care’s physician group, according to a Massachusetts healthcare regulatory body. | Optum has informed the Massachusetts Health Policy Commission that it is "no longer working to finalize an agreement" with the bankrupt Steward Health Care, a spokesperson for the regulator said.
HIT Consultant
JUNE 28, 2024
What You Should Know: – Noom , the leader in digital health coaching for chronic disease prevention, is revolutionizing its platform with the launch of two cutting-edge AI features: AI food logging and Welli, their new AI personal health assistant. – The launch of AI food logging and Welli reinforces Noom’s commitment to leveraging technology for sustainable behavior change.
Home Health Care
JUNE 28, 2024
On Friday, the U.S. Supreme Court upended the Chevron doctrine precedent. For home health industry purposes, that means a potentially weakened Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) moving forward. The news comes just two days after the home health proposed payment rule was released, which included significant cuts for the third straight year.
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The Rand Blog
JUNE 28, 2024
Fighting often requires multiple capabilities and innovative or flexible use. More of both will be needed to enable Ukraine to defeat the Russian glide bomb threat.
Home Health Care
JUNE 28, 2024
Amedisys Inc. (Nasdaq: AMED) filed paperwork Friday with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission saying it has agreed to divest “certain” locations to an affiliate of home health and hospice company VitalCaring. The divestiture was a way for Amedisys to avoid further antitrust concerns from regulators prior to it joining UnitedHealth Group (NYSE: UNH).
NCQA
JUNE 28, 2024
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently announced two major updates to Medicaid regulations. This blog will delve into their significance and key policy implications for states and managed care organizations (MCO). What Happened CMS released the Ensuring Access to Medicaid Services Final Rule (“the Access Rule”) and the Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program Managed Care Access, Finance, and Quality Final Rule (“the Managed Care Rule”) to enhance and stan
Home Health Care
JUNE 28, 2024
The National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC) hasn’t given up on efforts to push back on Medicare home health payment calculations. NAHC has re-filled its lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). The lawsuit focuses on the home health PDGM budget neutrality adjustment, which imposed both permanent and temporary calculations with a methodology that NAHC believes is noncompliant with the law.
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HIT Consultant
JUNE 28, 2024
What You Should Know: – The Garage , a leading population health management technology company, announced a strategic partnership with Adventist Health , a prominent non-profit integrated health system. Adventist Health will leverage The Garage’s Bridge platform to further its value-based care initiatives across its diverse patient population. – The Garage, headquartered in Orlando, Florida, is a population health management leader dedicated to improving healthcare delivery.
Home Health Care
JUNE 28, 2024
Elara Caring has acquired Caregivers Home Health in a transaction that allows the company to enter the Iowa market and expand its footprint in Kansas. The deal falls in line with Elara Caring’s strategy of acquiring companies that will facilitate footprint growth in their existing markets, and its expansion goals in the Midwest. “There is significant growth potential in their current markets and Caregivers adds to our existing hospice operations in Kansas,” Elara Caring CEO Scott Powers told Hom
HIT Consultant
JUNE 28, 2024
What You Should Know: – 23andMe Holding Co., a leading player in preventative health and therapeutics, and Nightingale Health , a pioneer in biomarker testing, announced a collaboration to pilot Nightingale’s blood metabolomics panel with a group of 23andMe members. – This pilot program represents a significant step forward in personalized health assessment.
Healthcare ECONOMIST
JUNE 28, 2024
Gene editing without CRISPR ? RCTs in economics. Claude and GTP4o on bias-adjusted nearest neighbor matching. Opioid prescriptions falling in workers comp. Since 2010, 149 rural hospitals have closed.
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HIT Consultant
JUNE 28, 2024
What You Should Know: – Inovalon , an innovator in cloud-based healthcare data solutions, announced a strategic partnership with the MEDITECH Alliance. – The strategic collaboration empowers thousands of healthcare providers using MEDITECH’s electronic health record (EHR) systems to leverage Inovalon’s end-to-end revenue cycle management (RCM) solutions.
The Rand Blog
JUNE 28, 2024
It is important that NATO not allow human security to slip down its political agenda. The 2024 NATO Washington summit will be a timely opportunity to reiterate the alliance's commitment to its human security–centered approach.
HIT Consultant
JUNE 28, 2024
What You Should Know: – Fabric , a healthcare technology company focused on care enablement, announced today the acquisition of MeMD from Walmart Inc. (NYSE: WMT). MeMD is a recognized leader in virtual healthcare, offering behavioral, urgent, and primary care services to millions of individuals. – This strategic acquisition positions Fabric to be a major player in the virtual healthcare landscape.
The Rand Blog
JUNE 28, 2024
In the absence of fully fledged national service, the United Kingdom should consider alternative avenues for strengthening societal links with the armed forces, contributing to societal resilience, and encouraging engagement in national security and defence.
Speaker: Dr. Ugo Uwaoma, MD, MBA
Due to the impact of COVID-19, integrating telehealth software into practices and organizations has become the new normal. In turn, this has increased the effectiveness of collaborative healthcare by strengthening communication amongst healthcare workers and helping combat the woes of burnout. Communication between patients and healthcare providers has also improved, allowing patients to reach their providers easily and decreasing turnaround time.
HIT Consultant
JUNE 28, 2024
Arnab Sen, Chief Strategy Officer, Omega Healthcare Every year, hospitals across the United States, regardless of their size or type, face significant financial losses amounting to hundreds of billions of dollars due to uncompensated care. This staggering figure does not even consider the additional losses incurred by hospitals as a result of underpayments from government-funded healthcare programs such as Medicare and Medicaid.
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