Fierce Healthcare
NOVEMBER 2, 2024
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is moving forward with a 2.9% cut to physician payments in 2025 despite protest from major industry groups. | The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is moving forward with a 2.9% cut to physician payments in 2025 despite protest from major industry groups.
Health Care Dive
NOVEMBER 4, 2024
Physicians will see their Medicare reimbursement fall 2.9% next year if Congress doesn’t stop the cuts. Meanwhile, reimbursement for hospital outpatient departments is rising 2.9%.
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Healthcare It News
NOVEMBER 7, 2024
A project at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center's new OpenNotes Lab aims to explore the opportunities and challenges of using artificial intelligence to generate patient visit summaries. WHY IT MATTERS The initiative, which will see OpenNotes collaborate with clinical genAI developer Abridge, will study how AI can enable collaboration between patients and clinicians, while advancing transparency and promoting health equity, they say.
HIT Consultant
NOVEMBER 3, 2024
Justin Sirotin, Founder and CEO of OCTO Amidst the backdrop of the United States being the world’s highest spender on healthcare, a sober reality emerges: despite this immense investment, the nation faces many alarming statistics on the state of public health. With the lowest life expectancy among developed nations, coupled with distressingly high rates of avoidable deaths, maternal and infant mortality, as well as an epidemic of chronic conditions and obesity, the current state of healthcare in
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Fierce Healthcare
NOVEMBER 4, 2024
How does a multiday mass gathering affect the local concentration of diseases like COVID-19? | Verily is working with the Las Vegas water treatment agency, water authority and health department to monitor the local wastewater for eight different pathogens. The pilot project was timed around the HLTH conference, with daily testing happening from one week before to one week after.
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Healthcare It News
NOVEMBER 8, 2024
Virtual reality holds huge potential, says Adam Hutchinson, founder and CEO of oVRcome, which recently ran a trial of its self-guided tool for social anxiety. He discusses the goal of closing the gap in access to VR treatment for providers and patients.
HIT Consultant
NOVEMBER 7, 2024
What You Should Know: – A new organization dedicated to accelerating the creation of smart hospitals has been established: the Alliance for Smart Healthcare Excellence (the Alliance). – The non-profit organization will champion the Smart Hospital Maturity Model (SHMM), a framework designed to guide hospitals in their adoption and utilization of advanced technologies.
Fierce Healthcare
NOVEMBER 4, 2024
Days before the 2024 presidential election, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released an unpublished version of the final calendar year 2025 physician fee schedule final rule | Digital therapeutics, telehealth, rural heath clinics and opioid treatment programs all got updates in the final 2025 Medicare physician fee schedule rule, but CMS was limited by its statutory authority to make many substantial changes to digital health policy.
Health Care Dive
NOVEMBER 8, 2024
During a meeting Thursday, commissioners debated different solutions to lackluster physician pay with one theme in common: linking doctors’ annual payment update to the Medicare Economic Index.
Speaker: Kaitlin Ruby Carroll
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Healthcare It News
NOVEMBER 5, 2024
MedStar Health announced Monday that its acute care at home is now available to Baltimore patients of its Franklin Square Medical Center, Good Samaritan, Harbor and Union Memorial hospitals. WHY IT MATTERS Through the collaboration, Dispatch Health offers pre-scheduled home visits daily, including weekends and holidays, following discharge from emergency departments and inpatient hospital units – typically within 72 hours – MedStar said.
Home Health Care
NOVEMBER 5, 2024
Choice Health at Home is acquiring the Oklahoma City-based Accentra Home Health and Hospice. The company has also closed on $260 million of new leveraged capital to continue expanding throughout the Southwestern U.S., Choice CEO David Jackson told Home Health Care News. Since its founding, Choice has executed nearly 50 deals. Since its recapitalization – it is backed by Coltala Holdings and Trive Capital – the company has executed 20 deals.
Fierce Healthcare
NOVEMBER 3, 2024
Under a final rule issued by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, outpatient hospital facilities and ambulatory surgical centers will get a 2.9% Medicare pay increase next year, up from | Under a final rule issued by CMS, outpatient hospital facilities and ambulatory surgical centers will get a 2.9% Medicare pay increase next year, up from the 2.6% boost in reimbursement that was floated in the draft rule.
Health Care Dive
NOVEMBER 5, 2024
Dramatic growth in an opaque Medicaid funding mechanism is exacerbating concerns about the program’s fiscal integrity — while spurring financial gains for the hospital industry.
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Healthcare It News
NOVEMBER 8, 2024
Collecting social determinants of health information at scale is just one challenge for providers. Others include training staff to collect that data sensitively and explaining what they need to do next in order to act on it at scale, says Dr. Hilary Hatch, a clinical psychologist and chief clinical officer at Phreesia, a patient-engagement technology provider.
HIT Consultant
NOVEMBER 7, 2024
What You Should Know: – Rula Health , a behavioral health company focused on improving access to mental healthcare, today announced a collaboration with Amazon Health Services to provide more ways for Amazon customers to find and receive essential mental healthcare. – With a network of over 10,000 providers representing more than 80 clinical specialties and a diverse range of backgrounds, Rula Health is the latest behavioral health provider to join Amazon’s Health Condition Progr
Fierce Healthcare
NOVEMBER 4, 2024
Senators Bill Cassidy, M.D., R-Louisiana, and Maggie Hassan, D-New Hampshire, published a policy paper advocating to impose site-neutral Medicare payments on hospitals. | The lawmakers argue that site-neutral Medicare payment reform would lead to lower healthcare costs for patients and save taxpayer dollars. However, hospital groups were quick to slam the proposal.
Health Care Dive
NOVEMBER 4, 2024
The payer joins several other insurers suing federal regulators over the 2025 quality ratings, which Elevance argues will cost it at least $375 million in bonus payments and rebates.
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Healthcare It News
NOVEMBER 5, 2024
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Home Health Care
NOVEMBER 6, 2024
Amid several recent developments at CVS Health (NYSE: CVS), Signify Health and Oak Street Health have been bright spots, according to company leaders. “Signify delivered another strong quarter,” CVS Health President and CEO David Joyner said during the company’s third-quarter earnings call. “Aetna members served by Signify have nearly doubled compared to last year, supported by our ability to utilize touch points across CVS Health.
Fierce Healthcare
NOVEMBER 8, 2024
LAS VEGAS — Employers' healthcare costs continue to rise, leading them to seek new alternatives to drive down expenses while avoiding steps to shift additional costs to workers. | In response to rising costs, some in the industry have been beating the drum for individual coverage health reimbursement arrangements, or ICHRA.
Health Care Dive
NOVEMBER 7, 2024
The health system will offer up to five weeks of back pay to staff that were denied religious exemptions for COVID-19 vaccine mandates.
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HIT Consultant
NOVEMBER 7, 2024
KLAS: Public Cloud Vendor Overview What You Should Know: – Over the past few years, healthcare organizations have increasingly turned to public cloud providers like AWS and Microsoft Azure to host their Epic electronic health record (EHR) systems. Driven by the promise of scalability, cost savings, and improved performance, this trend shows no signs of slowing down. – A new report from KLAS Research provides an updated look at the viability of Epic in the public cloud, highlighting b
Home Health Care
NOVEMBER 8, 2024
This article is a part of your HHCN+ Membership The home infusion industry is experiencing significant growth due to the increasing number of aging patients wanting to remain in their homes. However, like many areas of home-based care, reimbursement isn’t keeping up with the cost of care. Driven by an emphasis on cost-effectiveness, containment and the desire for patients to remain at home while recovering from illness, home infusion is cited as a $19 billion industry made up of more than 900 pr
Fierce Healthcare
NOVEMBER 6, 2024
CVS Health announced two key leadership appointments as it continues the push to improve its financial performance. | CVS Health announced two key leadership appointments as it continues the push to improve its financial performance.
Health Care Dive
NOVEMBER 6, 2024
Still, gross spending on the drugs increased by more than 500% from 2019 to 2023, according to the health policy research firm.
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HIT Consultant
NOVEMBER 8, 2024
What You Should Know: – Avaamo, a pioneer in healthcare AI solutions, today announced the launch of Avaamo Ambient™ , a groundbreaking Generative AI-powered ambient listening technology that promises to revolutionize clinical documentation and significantly reduce physician burnout. Ambient™ transforms natural patient-provider conversations into accurate, structured clinical notes in real-time.
The Rand Blog
NOVEMBER 4, 2024
Taking steps to prevent and prepare for violence always makes sense, but it should not be viewed as a suggestion that the United States is on the brink of civil war.
Fierce Healthcare
NOVEMBER 6, 2024
The U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments Monday in a case centered on Congress’ formula for calculating disproportionate share hospital payments. | The U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments Monday in a case centered on Congress’ formula for calculating disproportionate share hospital payments.
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