Health Populi

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Among people who had used virtual care in the past year, telehealth-as-healthcare is now part of mainstream Americans’ expectations as a normal part of their medical care. would use virtual care to receive medical services in the future, J.D. Power Finds appeared first on HealthPopuli.com.

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NCQA

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Behavioral Health Organizations are struggling with workforce shortages, data challenges and workflows as they move toward implementing measurement-based care. Collaboration is key to building a better behavioral healthcare system—and we heard several success stories at the summit. appeared first on NCQA.

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HIT Consultant

AUGUST 7, 2023

Cameron Wood, Head of Client Services & COO at NGA Healthcare The healthcare landscape is constantly evolving, with changes in technology , patient care, and the business of medicine all occurring at a rapid pace. One common strategy is to reduce reimbursement rates for medical services over time.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 25, 2020

Quality of care not as good as in-person (among 67% of older people). 45% of older people did not feel personally connected to the virtual health care provider. Virtual care will be a lifeline for many older people who cannot leave home or do not want to do so. 25% had difficult seeing or hearing the clinicians.

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Health Populi

JULY 26, 2021

some aspects of “digital transformation” seem not to have fully transformed American healthcare, we learn in HIMSS’s annual 2021 State of Healthcare Report. The study assessed payors’ perspectives in 2021, finding their top three concerned were increasing costs, quality of care, and the prospects for another pandemic.

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 19, 2023

– The healthcare industry has become increasingly more competitive in the last five years. . – The healthcare industry has become increasingly more competitive in the last five years. According to Weave’s survey, 35% of healthcare providers are opting not to invest in their practice right now due to the economy.

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Healthcare Patient Experience Healthcare Providers Quality of Care 52

Healthcare ECONOMIST

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Ultimately, the model will test whether global payments for the healthcare needs of a population will lead to care delivery transformation and improved quality of care and lower costs for rural Pennsylvanians. A recent paper by Scanlon et al.

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Healthcare ECONOMIST

APRIL 11, 2023

Public reporting of hospital quality of care could improve the care patients receive through at least two pathways. First, patients (or their physicians) could send patients to higher quality hospitals (i.e., A key question is, how well does public reporting of quality of care actually improve outcomes.

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Healthcare ECONOMIST

APRIL 17, 2022

Potentially, changing management practices took time to roll down to staff in terms of how to discharge patients more quickly while minimizing any impact on patient quality of care.

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Hospitals Quality of Care Medical Services 98

HIT Consultant

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Nathaniel Arana, CEO at NGA Healthcare As a society, we should all be concerned about the increasing rate at which private equity firms are acquiring physician groups. Healthcare has shifted towards a profit-driven model where physicians have minimal influence on the treatment plans for their former patients. The consequence?

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Sheppard Health Law

JANUARY 2, 2024

FOOTNOTES [1] See links to Sheppard Mullin’s blog series re SB 184 and OHCA: California Office of Health Care Affordability: Another Regulatory Hurdle for California Healthcare M&A Transactions? published 3/3/23. OHCA’s Revised Regulations Following Comments from Industry Stakeholders , published 10/24/23.

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Etactics

APRIL 26, 2024

On average, a healthcare provider has between 16 and 20 payer contracts. These payer contracts, also known as payer agreements, ensure that healthcare providers receive proper reimbursement for the care they provide to patients that get covered by a payer. It’s between a healthcare provider and a specific patient’s payer.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 7, 2022

healthcare negatively. Entering the fourth quarter of 2022, several studies were published in the past week which reinforce the reality that Americans are facing high health care costs, preventing many from seeking necessary medical services, and hitting under-served health citizens even harder in the economic downturn that so many U.S.

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Medicare Prevention Quality of Care Medical Services 71

Home Health Care

OCTOBER 7, 2024

“In seeking a new CEO, it was essential to the board of directors to select a candidate that not only has the leadership and technical skills necessary to manage such a complex organization but also someone committed to providing high-quality health care to low-income seniors,” President of the Board of Directors, John Feehan said in a statement. “We

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Etactics

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Even if you’re new here, or just getting started in your career, the American healthcare system should speak for itself - nothing about it is straightforward. HCPCS (Healthcare Common Procedure Coding System) and CPT (Current Procedural Terminology) codes are similar in function, but with important differences which dictate their usage.

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 30, 2025

This trend leverages digital technology to benefit hospitals and medical facilities by enabling cost-effective remote patient monitoring. Rather than requiring frequent hospital visits, healthcare professionals can monitor health data from a distance, bringing patients in only when necessary.

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Pharmaceuticals Hospitals Quality of Care Medical Services 52

HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Once the electronic matching occurs, a human can make the wrong decision on which patient to select, leading to potentially adverse outcomes on the quality of care. healthcare providers reported an adverse event due to a matching patient issue. Patient matching isn’t a magic bullet to achieve interoperability.

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Quality of Care Accountability Medical Services Healthcare Providers 52

Icanotes

JULY 20, 2021

The ideal mental health crisis system should offer services with similar funding and intensity as other public services, like fire departments, emergency medical services (EMS) and law enforcement. Some mental healthcare providers do not focus on creating a welcoming, compassionate and trauma-free environment.

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Urgent Care Hospitals Prevention Quality of Care 86

Vie Healthcare

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Episode Introduction Geoffrey highlights the impact of the current staffing crisis in healthcare, and why leadership needs to evolve from a transactional to a heart-centered approach. Probably without question the most challenging time in our nation’s healthcare workforce is, as we speak today, certainly not that dissimilar from 2023.

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NASHP

AUGUST 23, 2021

In almost all of these 13 states a large portion of the population lives in rural areas, which are more likely than urban areas to have a shortage of primary care providers (PCPs). Rural Healthcare Workforce. www.ruralhealthinfo.org/topics/health-care-workforce#characteristics. [vi] Health Place. 2009 Sep;15(3):731-40.

Primary Care 64

Primary Care Medicaid Accountability Quality Improvement 64

Healthcare ECONOMIST

OCTOBER 11, 2023

There has been much research showing that fee-for-service (FFS) leads to increased provision of medical services and capitation leads to decreased provision of medical services. link] In terms of empirical strategy, the authors perform a difference in-difference approach.

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Medical Services General Practice Primary Care Quality of Care 113

Healthcare ECONOMIST

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Does EOM account for quality of care? EOM does this through Aggregate Quality Score (AQS). To not unduly disincentivize innovation, EOM includes a new therapy adjustment where oncology drugs are considered “new” for 2 years from FDA approval for that specific indication.

Accountability 105

Accountability Medicare Quality of Care Medical Services 105

Sheppard Health Law

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Proponents of APP independent practice focus on the overall healthcare system impact, emphasizing APPs’ ability to compensate for primary care provider shortages in underserved communities and to drive lower health care costs, as well as to free up physician time for more advanced medical services.

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Nursing Primary Care Patient Safety Quality of Care 52

HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

– The funding will support the NorthEast Advancement of Rural and Remote Emergency Medical Services (NEARR-EMS) program, an initiative to improve and expedite post-crash care in rural communities and tribal areas of Northeast Minnesota. Department of Transportation’s Safe Streets and Roads for All (SS4A) Program.

Telemedicine 97

Telemedicine Quality of Care Medical Services Nursing 97

Healthcare It News

JANUARY 6, 2025

In this world, many of these activities will be accomplished online by virtual providers and non-physician team members who are empowered to manage stable patients via evidence-based protocols and similar rules to help automate their care.

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Telemedicine Doctors Urgent Care Quality of Care 324

KHN

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Private equity-backed groups have even set up special “obstetric emergency departments” at some hospitals, which can charge expectant mothers hundreds of dollars extra for routine perinatal care. ” Kool Smiles billed Medicaid $2,604 for Zion’s care, according to the suit. Petris Center at UC-Berkeley.

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Patient Safety Movement

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Patients, children, and healthcare workers are killed and injured. These casualties are not from medical mistakes; these are from deliberate acts of war. We need to bring back the sanctity of healthcare facilities and our children and take them out of battle zones.

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KHN

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Private equity-backed groups have even set up special “obstetric emergency departments” at some hospitals, which can charge expectant mothers hundreds of dollars extra for routine perinatal care. ” Kool Smiles billed Medicaid $2,604 for Zion’s care, according to the suit. Petris Center at UC-Berkeley.

Doctors 52

Doctors Tricare Medicaid Medical Services 52

Health Populi

MAY 7, 2024

Among Americans 50 years of age and over, the top health-related concerns are Cost, Cost, and Cost — for medical services, for long-term and home care, and for prescription medications. AARP sponsors this study, which is published nearly every month of the year on the Michigan Medicine portal.

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