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4 Years into the COVID-19 Pandemic: Where We Stand

Bill Of Health

By Jennifer S. Bard The White House is preparing to shut down their COVID Task Force this May, in conjunction with ending the public health emergency — the latest in a series of astounding and shortsighted decisions that put individual Americans at as great a risk from serious harm as a result of catching COVID-19 as at any stage in the pandemic. By declaring the pandemic over by fiat, the government is giving up the fight when they should be redoubling their efforts.

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AWS announces healthcare workforce accelerator cohort

Healthcare It News

The companies selected for the newest AWS Healthcare Accelerator will focus on three critical needs in the healthcare space: retention, deployment and training, says Dr. Rowland Illing, chief medical officer and director of International Public Sector Health & the Global Healthcare Venture Capital and Startups team at AWS. WHY IT MATTERS AWS accelerators are technical, business and mentorship programs that help startups advance their digital solutions using the cloud, such as last year's

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How Much Does SEO Cost?

Healthcare Success

Search engine optimization (SEO) is a powerhouse for long-term revenue generation. It should never be an afterthought in your marketing strategy. Businesses across every industry must capture relevant, organic traffic opportunities to stay competitive and grow. Focusing on value over cost is crucial when researching the best SEO agency or consulting firm for your business, industry, and company stage.

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Medical Billing Services Are the Only Part of Revenue Cycle Management

p3care

Medical Billing Services: Claim Submission and Follow-up According to the HBMA, the process of submitting and following up on claims with health insurance companies to get paid or receive money is a medical billing process. Without the timely submission of clean claims, you will not be successful. It doesn’t matter how many patients you see or how many services you render.

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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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Hospital margins stabilizing after year in negatives, Kaufman Hall says

Health Care Dive

Expenses were still high in February, though rising prices for goods and services were more to blame than costly labor, according to the report.

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CMS to raise Medicare Advantage pay rates by 3.3% in 2024; phase in risk adjustment changes

Fierce Healthcare

CMS to raise Medicare Advantage pay rates by 3.

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What Is the Medical Billing for Digital and Telehealth Services?

p3care

Final Rule for Telehealth and Digital Services The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued the 2023 Physician Fee Schedule (PFS) final rule on 1st November 2022. The final rule for telehealth and digital service providers includes significant changes. Starting new codes that will impact the future growth of these areas. Moreover, medical billers and coders need to answer questions related to their digital and telehealth services.

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Lawmakers to reintroduce federal nurse staffing ratio bill

Health Care Dive

The bill mirrors California’s nurse staffing law which took effect in 2004 and outlines exactly how many patients a nurse in specific hospital units can care for at one time.

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Uber Health rolls out same-day prescription delivery with plans to ship healthy food, OTC meds

Fierce Healthcare

Uber Health rolls out same-day prescription delivery with plans to ship healthy food, OTC meds hlandi Thu, 03/30/2023 - 12:54

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Virtua Health improves patient and caregiver experiences with 2-way text messaging

Healthcare It News

Virtua Health, the largest health system in South New Jersey, saw an uptick in virtual care appointments and digital communications during the pandemic as patients sought care at home. With this shift in patient engagement, many health systems, including Virtua, saw an incredible influx of messages to the care team. THE PROBLEM The increase in patient interactions created additional friction in clinical workflows that weren’t optimized to deal with the volume, said Dr.

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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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Monday Morning Update 3/27/23

HIStalk

Top News ProPublica says that Cigna’s reviewing doctors use “auto-denial”.

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UnitedHealthcare cuts back prior authorization requirements

Health Care Dive

Provider groups applauded the move, but said they’d need to see how the requirements are rolled back before passing judgment on whether the step would ease documentation burdens on physicians.

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Capital Rx exec to senators: Here's how to fix the PBM industry

Fierce Healthcare

Capital Rx exec to senators: Here's how to fix the PBM industry fdiamond Thu, 03/30/2023 - 15:36

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What learning home dialysis can offer patients

Healthcare It News

Dr. Shelly Nash will offer more details during the HIMSS23 session "Creating Technology to Empower Patients and the Home Dialysis Experience." It is scheduled for Wednesday, April 19, at 2:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. CT at the South Building, Level 4, room S406 A.

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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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Techquity: Getting Healthy Through Equity-by-Design

Health Populi

The U.S. spends more on health care than any other nation in the world. Yet Americans’ health outcomes rank relatively low compared with other wealthy peer nations on Planet Earth, manifesting a low return-on-investment for this huge financial spend. Nowhere is this more evident than in America’s place in equity compared with nine countries, shown in the graph on health care system performance from The Commonwealth Fund’s perennial study, Mirror, Mirror – the latest versi

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Uber Health launches same-day prescription delivery

Health Care Dive

The service is made possible through integrating Uber Health’s dashboard with ScriptDrop, a tech platform Uber first partnered with in 2021 for prescription delivery.

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UnitedHealthcare to begin reducing prior authorizations this summer

Fierce Healthcare

UnitedHealthcare to begin reducing prior authorizations this summer pminemyer Wed, 03/29/2023 - 17:02

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VR use in medicine in the spotlight at IVRHA 2023

Healthcare It News

Enterprise Taxonomy: Node settings: Exclude from Accelerate RSS feed

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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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America's Dangerous Short War Fixation

The Rand Blog

Americans have long been fixated on the idea of the short, decisive war. And the United States' adversaries bank on Washington's strategic impatience. If the United States' objective is to win, the only thing worse than fighting a long war may be thinking it's possible to avoid one.

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Fair Health finds 76% drop in telehealth use from 2020 to 2021

Health Care Dive

Although telehealth use declined overall compared to the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, virtual visits still comprised the highest percentage of medical claim lines in 2021.

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Signify Health CEO says CVS deal will 'turbocharge' home health provider's roadmap

Fierce Healthcare

Signify Health CEO says CVS deal will 'turbocharge' home health provider's roadmap hlandi Wed, 03/29/2023 - 19:57

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Personify Care's digital patient pathway project to go SA-wide

Healthcare It News

Health IT company Personify Care has bagged a A$5.6 million ($3.7 million) contract from SA Health to extend its digital patient pathways project across the entire state over the next two years. THE LARGER CONTEXT The project started in 2021 as a proof of concept between Personify Care and the Central Adelaide Local Health Network (CALHN) with support from the SA government's Go2Gov programme.

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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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News 3/29/23

HIStalk

Top News HL7 publishes FHIR Release 5. I will break.

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Judge tosses ACA preventive care mandate

Health Care Dive

The Thursday ruling means that, effective immediately, health plans nationwide are no longer required to fully cover certain preventative medical services like cancer, HIV and diabetes screenings.

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Carrot Fertility expands benefits with hormone replacement therapy coverage

Fierce Healthcare

Carrot Fertility expands benefits with hormone replacement therapy coverage agliadkovskaya Tue, 03/28/2023 - 14:43

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Patients armed with telehealth tools help Baptist Health deliver better care

Healthcare It News

After the near emergency ramp-up of video visits across the organization when the COVID-19 pandemic struck, Baptist Health, a health system based in Louisville, Kentucky, that serves Kentucky and Indiana, evaluated some of its outcomes, including willingness to do more video visits in the future. THE PROBLEM One of the challenges was with the lack of a significant physical exam.

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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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News 3/31/23

HIStalk

Top News Senators Patty Murray (D-WA), Jon Tester (D-MT), and.

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Medicaid redeterminations will restart Saturday. Here’s what we know

Health Care Dive

States can begin disenrolling ineligible beneficiaries from Medicaid on April 1, in an event the CMS has called the biggest health coverage transition since the first ACA open enrollment.

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ViVE 2023: Amazon Pharmacy integrates coupons in latest bid to target affordability of branded drugs

Fierce Healthcare

ViVE 2023: Amazon Pharmacy integrates coupons in latest bid to target affordability of branded drugs hlandi Tue, 03/28/2023 - 15:24

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How telemedicine increases access to care for the underserved

Healthcare It News

Howard Rubin will offer more detail during the HIMSS23 session "Increasing Access to Care for Rural and Underserved Communities." It is scheduled for Tuesday, April 18 at 3 p.m. – 4 p.m. CT at the South Building, Level 1, room S105A.

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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.