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What Home Health Providers May Change Due To Final Rule

Home Health Care

Now that the final payment rule for the home health care industry is officially out, providers and advocates will take the long-awaited next step. For advocates, that will mean continuing legislation efforts. Although the final rule includes a 0.7% aggregate payment bump for home health agencies , behavioral adjustment cuts are still being implemented.

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Improving the patient experience is a two-way street

Healthcare It News

While healthcare needs technology to drive heightened patient experiences, technology can be a hinderance to the clinician experience. This is because of increased administrative burden and a lack of interoperability between electronic health records themselves and with other forms of health IT. In fact, more than half of clinicians feel overwhelmed by administrative burden and frustrated by the challenges of accessing a patient's clinical information.

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Monthly healthcare job gains stronger this year than last

Health Care Dive

Healthcare employment has risen by an average of 47,000 new jobs a month this year, compared to 9,000 a month on average in 2021, according to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

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Uncover Hidden Consumer Insights & SEO Opportunities with Google Trends

Healthcare Success

Google Trends is a powerful but underutilized tool that helps healthcare marketers. Conduct search engine optimization (SEO) research, Identify current trends, Find out what people are interested in, And build better, more relevant campaigns. It also allows marketers to analyze search term popularity over time, explore related keywords, and compare how search terms vary across different geographical areas.

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From Diagnosis to Delivery: How AI is Revolutionizing the Patient Experience

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

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RCM Solutions in Healthcare are Need for Better Practice in 2023

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RCM Solutions in Healthcare ease up the providers more preferably as they assure the financial stability for their secret practicing future. A provider’s performance is not only dependent on the service they deliver but also on the equipment they use, the time they spend on treating the patients, and the fair and efficient dealing and healthy hospital environment they provide.

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Nuvance Health develops new memory care-at-home platform

Healthcare It News

Patients with mild cognitive impairment being treated at Nuvance Health Neuroscience Institute practices in New York and Connecticut, as well as their caregivers, have access to a new virtual neurological specialty care support program. WHY IT MATTERS. MCI is an early stage of memory loss or other cognition problems, such as difficulty with language and thinking.

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CMS Backs Off Severe Cuts, Finalizes 0.7% Increase To 2023 Provider Payments

Home Health Care

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released its FY 2023 home health final payment rule late Monday. It comes with an estimated increase to 2023 home health payments of 0.7%, or $125 million, compared to 2022 aggregate payments. Although it sets up certain financial challenges moving forward, the final rule is better news for providers than what was previously expected. .

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How & Why You Should Become a Clinical Psychologist in 2023?

p3care

People in today’s world have upgraded their standard of living and are striving hard to maintain their lifestyles. They have chosen very hectic daily routines which have deprived them of their mental peace. Their unending desires have no limit. As a result, we have affected our mental health more than our physical health and without noticing it, we are actively creating more problems for ourselves.

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ONC launches SDOH interoperability pilot

Healthcare It News

This new group can use various Fast Health Interoperability Resources resources as they pilot how to best adopt the SDOH Clinical Care FHIR Implementation Guide (SDOH CC IG) in screening, diagnosis, goal setting and interventions. WHY IT MATTERS. The pilot, funded under a cooperative agreement by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) and Health Level Seven International (HL7), focuses on applying FHIR Gravity social risk terminology – to exchange information.

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Cigna faces questions about M&A strategy amid ‘arms race’ for deals

Health Care Dive

One analyst asked whether not pursuing deals will pose a disadvantage in future years. CEO David Cordani said he is open to M&A but does not think acquisitions are a “silver bullet.

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How to Make The Best Benefits Decisions for 2025's Workforce: An HR and Total Rewards Guide

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

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Nuclear Weapons and Putin's 'Holy War'

The Rand Blog

Russia's nuclear saber-rattling has shifted the stakes of the war in Ukraine. But enabling Russia's blackmail doesn't prevent the catastrophic costs of nuclear escalation. It merely shifts those costs away from Russia and into the future, inviting other nuclear states to pull the same move for their conquests.

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wRVU Calc in the Medical Billing Industry

p3care

US healthcare is operating on an excellent performance by rendering services of their practicing providers in an extensive healthcare system. Therefore, CMS has devised several modules to not only maintain their tradition of trust in healthcare services but also introduced several laws and systems to support their providers in every possible way. wRVU calc is such an initiative by CMS to give the providers their RVU compensation based on the service they cater to their patients. wRVUs basically

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Telehealth summit debrief: staffing shortages, wider acceptance but expansion barriers

Healthcare It News

Telemedicine technology and services vendor Avel eCare recently launched its inaugural annual Customer Forum and Innovation Summit focused on driving innovation in virtual care. This first event featured healthcare leaders from across the country and took place in Nashville. Topics included the workforce shortage and burnout , increasing access to telebehavioral health , expanding critical and emergency care on demand, cybersecurity, and telehealth waivers and licensing.

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CMS to ease Medicare ACOs into risk models in bid to boost participation

Health Care Dive

Beginning in January 2024, ACOs that don’t have experience with performance-based risk will be able to stay in a one-sided risk arrangement for up to seven years before transitioning to two-sided risk.

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Why Every Small Business Needs an HCM Solution: A Comprehensive Guide

Managing HR tasks like payroll, compliance, and employee data can overwhelm small businesses. That’s where a Human Capital Management (HCM) solution comes in. Our eBook, Why Every Small Business Needs an HCM Solution: A Comprehensive Guide , shows how an HCM system automates tedious processes, ensuring your business stays compliant and efficient. You’ll learn how to simplify payroll, eliminate costly errors, and empower your employees with self-service tools.

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Consumers Rank Healthcare Experiences in the Bottom-Third of All Industries – the ACSI 2021-2022 Index

Health Populi

While consumers’ satisfaction with inpatient care experiences improved a few points over the past year, health insurance and hospitals still fall in the bottom-third of all industries with which people interact, according to the American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI) Insurance and Health Care Study 2021-2022. “With visitor restrictions relaxing and more elective procedures going forward, hospitals are slowly coming out of a COVID-induced satisfaction slump,” the study pres

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How To Deal with Sebaceous Hyperplasia Treatment

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Our entire body is covered with skin, which is the biggest organ in our body. It always protects us from harmful environments and weather changes. However, the aging factor came with several risks. One of them is sebaceous hyperplasia which calls for appropriate sebaceous hyperplasia treatments. Although we have a myriad of new treatments for sebaceous hyperplasia, all of them act differently on different skin types from person to person.

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Roundup: Queensland virtual ED now available statewide and more briefs

Healthcare It News

Queensland expands virtual ED service statewide. Queensland Hospital and Health Services is expanding access to the Virtual Emergency Department service to all individuals in the state. The telehealth service, which was developed and launched by Metro North Health during the height of the pandemic in 2020, is being made available for all Queenslanders needing urgent non-life threatening care.

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CVS agrees to pay $5B to resolve opioid-related lawsuits

Health Care Dive

Walgreens and Walmart also have reportedly reached deals. If they become final, it could end much of the yearslong litigation over the pharmacy companies’ role in the opioid epidemic.

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Best Practices to Streamline Compensation Management: A Foundation for Growth

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.

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How Veterans Fare in the Civilian Labor Market

The Rand Blog

Around 200,000 service members transition to the civilian labor market every year. They often find it's like falling into another dimension, one where employers don't even speak the same language. More than a decade of RAND research has sought to ease that transition.

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Smoking Weed (Cannabis): Does it Mess Up Your Liver?

p3care

The world is familiar with the adverse utilization of smoking week in various forms. For instance, addicts smoke Cannabis (Marijuana) in joints (hand-rolled cigarettes), cigars, bongs, and blunts. However, research on its impacts on the human liver and other body parts is in-process. Despite this, the growing research on Cannabis and the human liver has more nuanced findings.

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Grand challenges and opportunities for patient-centered CDS

Healthcare It News

Clinical Decision Support Electronic Health Records (EHR, EMR) Government & Policy Patient Engagement AHRQ is helping the transition towards evidence-based recommendations to guide clinical decision-making that incorporates patients' needs and preferences. Dr. Prashila Dullabh Dr. Prashila Dullabh is vice president and senior fellow at NORC at the University of Chicago, and Director of NORC’s Health Implementation Science Center.

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Cigna partners with in-home primary care provider Heal

Health Care Dive

The provider, which focuses on care for seniors, is collaborating with Cigna to offer house calls and remote monitoring to Medicare Advantage customers in four states.

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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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How our independent healthcare system launched a state-of-the-art precision medicine program

Meditech

I still remember the day three years ago when our President & CEO, Tom Kleinhanzl, visited my office and tasked me to lead one of our organization’s most technologically advanced new initiatives — the development of a precision medicine program that would enable all providers at Frederick Health to leverage the power of genetics. Little did I know at the time that the initiative would launch Frederick Health to the forefront of genomic medicine.

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Urgent Care Medical Billing for an Improved Profit Margin

p3care

The patient always visits a related physician to get treatment for whatever illness they are dealing with. On the other hand, a physician always attends to them and performs tests and processes to restore their health. However, the more patients flow in a healthcare center, hospital, or clinic, the more will be the cash flow, and this upgrades the medical billing profit margin.

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Data linkage project seeks to improve First Nations maternal and child health outcomes

Healthcare It News

A new project led by indigenous community leaders, together with researchers from the University of Queensland, seeks to link disparate health records of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders across health facilities to improve maternal and perinatal health outcomes. The Digital Infrastructure For improving First Nations Maternal and Child Health (DIFFERENCE) project has been awarded A$3 million in funding from the federal government's Medical Research Future Fund.

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Healthcare lobbying rose 70% over past two decades

Health Care Dive

U.S. healthcare lobbying expenditures totaled almost $714 million in 2020, compared to $358 million in 2000, according to new research.

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How To Empower Your Workforce With Modern Fertility Benefits

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.

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PBJ Staffing Submission Deadline Approaching!

Briggs Healthcare

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. Monday, November 14, 2022. That’s the deadline for submission of 4 th quarter fiscal PBJ (Payroll Based Journal) data. Submissions must be received by the end of the 45th calendar day (11:59 PM Eastern Standard Time) after the last day in each fiscal quarter to be considered timely.

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How Does Prozac Feel When it Starts Working for Anxiety

p3care

In the class of Antidepressants, Prozac is a well-known and fast-working medicine. It’s the most sought-after selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI) drug. The question that comes into mind is the same as with the other medication: does Prozac work on the first day? Let’s read the whole article to get the answer. Well, for anxiety, it’s the most helpful remedy.

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How to promote equity when connecting providers and patients

Healthcare It News

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CMS finalizes requirements for rural emergency hospital designation

Health Care Dive

The conditions of participation include maintaining an average length of stay of no more than 24 hours and having emergency care available 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

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Enhance Healthcare Efficiency With Top Payroll & HCM Services

Running a healthcare facility requires precision and care, not just for patients but also for your staff. Our guide, "A Buyer’s Guide to Payroll & HCM Services," helps healthcare providers choose the best provider. Efficient payroll management ensures timely, accurate payments, critical for maintaining staff morale and trust. Compliance support helps navigate complex healthcare regulations and avoid costly fines.