Health Care Dive
JULY 3, 2024
Experts predict a wave of litigation will follow the Chevron ruling, which raised the bar for healthcare agencies when implementing laws with unclear intent.
Fierce Healthcare
JULY 1, 2024
Digital primary care startup K Health raised $50 million in an equity funding round to build out its AI-powered medical services and fuel its growth, the company announced Monday. | Digital primary care startup K Health raised $50 million in an equity funding round to build out its AI-powered medical services and fuel its growth, the company announced Monday.
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Healthcare It News
JULY 1, 2024
Emory Healthcare constantly is evolving and innovating the care it provides. With regard to at-home physical therapy providers, the health system was intrigued to understand how it could expand its service offerings for outpatient care. THE PROBLEM Especially in the last few years, the COVID-19 pandemic accelerated the way Emory thinks about off-site care and forced the health system to reinvent not only how it diagnoses patients, but also how it treats them nonoperatively.
Healthcare Success
JULY 1, 2024
When my wife Clara met her new workout trainer, he asked, “What can I help you with?” She replied with a smile, “menopause.” She elaborated, “My doctor helps me with hormone therapy, and I work out five days a week at a boot camp. But I feel stuck with the way I look and feel. I want to lose fat, build muscle, and feel healthier.” When she shared this story with me, we laughed and remarked on how far things have come in recent years.
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
Health Care Dive
JULY 2, 2024
More employers than ever are focusing on mental health benefits. Congress must invest more and act soon to reauthorize telehealth extensions before it’s too late, argues the director of health policy at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.
Fierce Healthcare
JULY 3, 2024
To address behavioral health access barriers for students, California launched a program to offer incentive payments to Medi-Cal managed care plans to build capacity for behavioral health services in K-12 schools.
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Home Health Care
JULY 3, 2024
When it comes to recruitment and retention, disorganized processes are one of the main reasons home care providers often see a revolving door of caregivers. That was one of the key takeaways from Activated Insights’ — formerly Home Care Pulse — 2024 Benchmarking Report. The report found that home care turnover has increased by more than 12% over the past two years.
Health Care Dive
JULY 3, 2024
The survey, which included low-income people in Arkansas, Kentucky, Louisiana and Texas, found about half of those who were no longer enrolled in Medicaid became uninsured.
Fierce Healthcare
JULY 1, 2024
As its stack of unpaid vendor obligations climbed, now-bankrupt Steward Health Care paid private investigators millions of dollars to follow and uncover compromising information on individuals | An investigative report details a "spare no expenses mission" in which executives authorized intelligence firms to allegedly follow, data mine and disseminate damaging information about individuals viewed as opponents.
Healthcare It News
JULY 2, 2024
Virtual care is comparable to in-person substance use disorder treatment and lowers the cost of treatment for substance misuse, said Dr. Yusuf Sherwani, CEO and cofounder of Pelago.
Speaker: Kaitlin Ruby Carroll
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Healthcare ECONOMIST
JULY 3, 2024
The 340B Drug Pricing Program is a federal initiative designed to help certain healthcare providers, known as “covered entities,” stretch their resources to better serve vulnerable and underserved patient populations. Created in 1992, the program requires pharmaceutical manufacturers to sell outpatient drugs at significantly discounted prices (typically 25% to 50% off) to eligible hospitals, clinics, and health centers that care for a large number of uninsured and low-income patients
Health Care Dive
JULY 2, 2024
A former employee at vendor Nuance Communications accessed patient data two days after being terminated, according to the health system. The employee is facing federal charges.
Fierce Healthcare
JULY 3, 2024
A recent proposal to report prior authorization to insurance plans through CPT codes was withdrawn at the eleventh hour when its physician advocate made an unexpected discovery: For certain codes a | The advocate for a plan to reimburse physicians for time spent on rigorous claims learned that six CPT codes already include language about prior authorization.
Healthcare It News
JULY 3, 2024
A Mass General team has developed modified criteria that may help healthcare professionals more accurately identify anaphylaxis, a potentially life-threatening allergic reaction, in infants and young children.
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HIT Consultant
JUNE 30, 2024
Dave Bennett, Executive Vice President – Healthcare, pCare by Uniguest In the dynamic and ever-changing landscape of the healthcare industry, patient engagement continues to emerge as a pivotal element of the value-based care (VBC) model. Value-based care seeks to improve health outcomes by leveraging the Quintuple Aim framework – focusing on the patient experience, population health success, cost reduction, team wellbeing, and health equity.
Health Care Dive
JULY 2, 2024
The divestiture will only go through if UnitedHealth and Amedisys complete their merger, which was announced last summer but has been held up amid scrutiny from the Department of Justice.
Fierce Healthcare
JULY 1, 2024
OptumRx will pay $20 million to resolve claims the company violated the Controlled Substances Act by improperly filling certain opioid prescriptions, the Department of Justice recently announced.
The Rand Blog
JULY 3, 2024
Ann Marie Dailey, a policy researcher at RAND, is an expert on some of the most pressing questions now facing the United States and its global allies: How to help Ukraine. What to expect from Russia. How to position NATO for the next 75 years.
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
JULY 2, 2024
Kanwar Kelley, MD, JD, co-founder & CEO of Side Health The healthcare sector is rapidly adopting AI to help improve disease detection and patient care along with delivering efficiency gains. The technology’s potential is fueling an array of investments and innovations in everything from cancer diagnosis to AI nurses. With respect to AI nurses, many believe this application is the only way to ease the industry’s staffing shortages.
Health Care Dive
JULY 2, 2024
The federal investigation follows multiple state inquiries into Prospect’s business practices last year.
Fierce Healthcare
JUNE 30, 2024
As Walmart shutters its primary care clinics, the retail giant inked a deal to sell its MeMD telehealth business to healthcare technology startup Fabric. | The deal will significantly expand Fabric's reach in the employer market as MeMD provides virtual care services to 30,000 employers and 5 million employees.
The Rand Blog
JULY 5, 2024
As the fighting in Ukraine grinds on, Western policymakers and military officials are thinking ahead to the next war. Given how fast Russia is reconstituting its military, they are asking, when might it be able militarily to launch another large-scale offensive operation?
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Home Health Care
JULY 1, 2024
On late Friday, Amedisys Inc. (Nasdaq: AMED) announced that it had agreed to divest certain locations to VitalCaring , in a deal that would be a massive one for the home health industry. It could clear the way for UnitedHealth Group (NYSE: UNH) to finalize its takeover of Amedisys, and also turn VitalCaring into one of the largest providers in the country overnight.
Health Care Dive
JULY 2, 2024
The primary care chain is now focused on its Florida market, which includes 80 medical centers.
Fierce Healthcare
JULY 3, 2024
LAS VEGAS—Amazon is betting big on its pharmacy arm, with the retail giant aiming to bring its focus on ease of use for consumers to the prescription drug space. | LAS VEGAS—Amazon is betting big on its pharmacy arm, with the retail giant aiming to bring its focus on ease of use for consumers to the prescription drug space.
Healthcare ECONOMIST
JULY 1, 2024
A paper by Drummond et al. (2023) examines how health technology assessment bodies deal with the challenge of value assessment for cell and gene therapies (also known as Advanced Therapy Medicinal Products (ATMPs) in Europe). To do this the authors: …undertook i) a targeted review of the literature on the clinical and economic evidence needs for these therapies, and ii) an in-depth analysis of HTA reports from 8 major jurisdictions for 9 cell and gene therapies in 10 indications, together
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Home Health Care
JULY 2, 2024
This article is a part of your HHCN+ Membership The home health industry has a high concentration of nurses that are closer to retirement age. Providers see the advantages and the drawbacks of having an aging workforce. Broadly, the registered nurse workforce age varies based on practice setting. In home health and hospice, the amount of nurses who are at retirement age are set to surpass new RNs, according to data from the American Medical Group Association.
Health Care Dive
JULY 1, 2024
Discover what AI technology is and how it’s used in medical coding operations.
Fierce Healthcare
JULY 2, 2024
The House Ways and Means Committee advanced bipartisan legislation on Thursday that would grant Medicare coverage to novel medical technologies for four years while the Centers for Medicare & M | The House Ways and Means Committee advanced updated legislation to expedite Medicare coverage of breakthrough medical devices. The new version of the bill reduces its cost by 75%, according to co-sponsor Rep.
HIT Consultant
JULY 1, 2024
Ivor Campbell, CEO of Snedden Campbell Anyone who works in medical technology knows that the industry is currently focused obsessively on two prime targets – maximizing the availability of self-testing and playing its part in the common goal of achieving net zero. To those can now be added a third priority – attempting to find a way to make those twin targets mutually achievable rather than, what seems increasingly to be the case, of them canceling each other out.
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