Fierce Healthcare
JULY 31, 2024
Humana affirmed its guidance for the year as it continues to face headwinds in the Medicare Advantage (MA) space. | Humana affirmed its guidance for the year as it continues to face headwinds in the Medicare Advantage space.
Health Care Dive
JULY 31, 2024
The insurer shrank its plan footprint for 2025 in a bid to improve margins. Now, Humana is giving market watchers loose guidance into how that reduction could affect its enrollment along with second quarter results.
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Healthcare It News
AUGUST 1, 2024
Staffing for urgent care sites has always been a challenge at Baptist Health, which is headquartered in Louisville, Kentucky, and serves that state and Indiana. THE PROBLEM Staff at Baptist Health can look at prior patterns but still struggle at times to predict correctly for specific days and times. Further, with today's healthcare staffing challenges, even if Baptist Health recognizes a need for extra workers, it may not have the resources to upstaff appropriately.
p3care
JULY 30, 2024
Since 2017, MIPS (The Merit-Based Incentive Payment System) has been an integral part of physicians’ professional life. At least for eligible physicians. And with penalties getting more tangible, healthcare professionals have no way out other than being serious about MIPS 2024 reporting services. CMS MIPS services, although, cover quality outcomes across the board but the specifics have always remained an issue.
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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.
Fierce Healthcare
JULY 30, 2024
The U.S. healthcare system remains complex and inaccessible, leaving many seniors feeling uninformed, according to a new survey from digital health company DUOS. | Seniors are growing more comfortable with technology, but many still don't understand key differences between major health programs.
Health Care Dive
AUGUST 1, 2024
David Cordani’s comments to investors Thursday come as the payer blew past Wall Street’s expectations for the second quarter, helped by significant growth in its health services division — including PBM Express Scripts.
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NASHP
AUGUST 2, 2024
Respite is planned or emergency care provided to a child or adult with special needs to provide temporary relief to family caregivers. To recruit and train the respite workforce, ARCH National Respite Network and Resource Center , in partnership with NASHP and the Respite Care Association of Wisconsin , piloted a competency-based respite provider training and recruitment initiative in 10 states.
Fierce Healthcare
JULY 30, 2024
Ochsner Health is going all-in on ambient AI voice technology for its thousands of doctors and has inked an enterprise agreement to roll out DeepScribe's technology across its health system. | Ochsner Health inked an enterprise-wide agreement with DeepScribe to roll out its AI medical scribe across its 46-hospital system for 4,700 providers.
Health Care Dive
JULY 30, 2024
The research, which found socially vulnerable counties were more likely to have MA plans rated under 3.5 stars, is the latest highlighting the importance of location in healthcare access.
Healthcare It News
JULY 28, 2024
Community care partners of the National Healthcare Group in Singapore have been provided access to a digital platform for managing health programmes and potentially creating digital records. WHAT IT'S ABOUT Recently, the NHG partnered with credentials platform provider, Accredify, to develop the NHG Cares Partners Portal. According to a press statement, the portal simplifies the management of health programmes, which are automatically synced with NHG 's health and social care marketplace
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HIT Consultant
AUGUST 2, 2024
Mike Battista, Director, Science & Research at Creyos The COVID-19 pandemic made the word “virtual” a part of our everyday lexicon. Many services that were previously done in person—even schools—quickly made the transition to being virtual. Today, our world is forever changed as many services that once were only in-person continue to be virtual due to convenience, accessibility, and technological advancements that enable everything online.
Fierce Healthcare
AUGUST 1, 2024
CVS Health has launched an environmental health impact program to help vulnerable Americans during extreme weather events. | Using advanced environmental data analytics and patients' medical and pharmacy data, CVS Health offers timely excessive heat alerts and outreach to at-risk patients up to a week before the event.
Health Care Dive
AUGUST 2, 2024
Hospitals still weren’t happy with the final rule despite the bump from the CMS’ proposed rates, citing cuts to long-term and disproportionate share facilities.
Healthcare It News
AUGUST 1, 2024
From enhancing efficiency to helping organizations strengthen essential face-to-face human interactions, artificial intelligence holds significant promise for healthcare. But strong regulation and clear definitions of the technology's use and capabilities will be required. WHY IT MATTERS Those were among the conclusions drawn from a roundtable discussion , featuring two dozen leading experts on healthcare AI, hosted this summer by Epic and UW Health, the integrated health system of the Unive
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Home Health Care
JULY 29, 2024
Maxim at Home has a new name. Now dubbed Villi, the Dallas-based company integrates technology with traditional companion care to keep adults at home, living independently. Villi’s on-demand platform connects individuals with caregivers around the clock, whether it’s a senior needing personal care services or a new mother requiring an extra hand.
Fierce Healthcare
JULY 31, 2024
In its first quarter with new CEO Chuck Divita, national telehealth provider Teladoc Health posted a net loss of $838 million in Q2 that included a nearly $800 million impairment charge a | Teladoc said on its earnings call on Wednesday that challenges with BetterHelp and increasing advertising costs led its revenue to decline in Q2.
Health Care Dive
AUGUST 1, 2024
Though expenses declined since last year, healthcare is still the costliest industry for data breaches — a spot the sector has held since 2011.
Healthcare It News
JULY 30, 2024
Palo Alto, California-based Stanford Health Care is often ahead of the curve when it comes to technology innovation. As a result, health IT leaders at provider organizations across the country can look to Stanford for lessons to be learned. That is the goal of a case study educational session the health system will be leading at the HIMSS AI in Healthcare Forum, scheduled for September 5-6 in Boston.
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Home Health Care
JULY 30, 2024
This article is a part of your HHCN+ Membership After Honor acquired Home Instead in 2021 , many Home Instead franchisees were not sold on the strategic direction they were given. They believed Honor’s model lacked a “proof of concept,” and were unwilling to alter operations to appease their new parent organization. But, over the last few years, a lot of the friction between Honor and Home Instead franchisees has eroded.
Fierce Healthcare
JULY 30, 2024
As artificial intelligence rapidly makes inroads in healthcare, federal agencies already have the authority to regulator AI at the hospital bedside, according to some healthcare researche | An article published in JAMA Health Forum argues that through the conditions of participation in Medicare and Medicaid, CMS has the authority to oversee how hospitals are implementing AI into patient care.
Health Care Dive
AUGUST 2, 2024
The deal with private equity firms TowerBrook and Clayton, Dubilier and Rice comes months after New Mountain Capital announced its own takeover bid, which some analysts thought undervalued the company.
Healthcare It News
JULY 31, 2024
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Home Health Care
AUGUST 2, 2024
This article is a part of your HHCN+ Membership Three years after Honor acquired Home Instead, its goal is not to grow through franchise expansion or acquisition. Instead, it’s trying to find ways for current locations to double, triple and quadruple their current censuses. In part, it plans to open up that opportunity through advanced technology, including artificial intelligence.
Fierce Healthcare
JULY 31, 2024
There are 75,000 homeless people in Los Angeles County, a county that is the size of Delaware and Rhode Island combined and has a population that is larger than 40 states. | L.A. Care Health Plan is sending social workers to temporary housing sites in Los Angeles County to find more permanent housing solutions.
Health Care Dive
JULY 30, 2024
The health benefits administrator said a vendor’s user accounts were compromised, and information like contact details, Social Security numbers and medical information could be exposed.
Healthcare It News
JULY 30, 2024
The founder and CEO of Billy, Cody Coonradt, discusses how the company's app, which displays hospital pricing data by location, can help patients and advocates negotiate prices for medical procedures.
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HKLaw
JULY 28, 2024
A group of fiscal intermediaries (FIs) on July 22, 2024, filed a lawsuit against the New York State Department of Health (DOH) and its commissioner, Dr. James McDonald, alleging that the defendants disregarded established administrative procedures, acted arbitrarily and misused their discretion in formulating and implementing a new reimbursement methodology for the Consumer Directed Personal Assistance Program (CDPAP).
Fierce Healthcare
AUGUST 1, 2024
The Bipartisan Policy Center released a report on Wednesday that recommends that C | The Bipartisan Policy Center released a report on Wednesday that recommends Congress extend the Medicare Acute Hospital Care at Home waiver for five years to increase uptake.
Health Care Dive
JULY 30, 2024
The share of Americans who were either “cost insecure” or “cost desperate” when it comes to healthcare have both increased since 2022, a Gallup and West Health survey found.
Home Health Care
JULY 30, 2024
This article is sponsored by Viventium. In this Voices interview, Home Health Care News sits down with Navin Gupta, Chief Executive Officer, Viventium, to talk about their new research study, the 2024 Caregiver Onboarding Experience Report. He provides an overview of the report and its objectives and delves into the key findings, including the most surprising results.
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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.
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