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Peer-to-Peer Review Pitfalls & Solutions

BHM Healthcare Solutions

Providers ask to speak with insurer as part of a prior authorization requirement asking for approval for care, like length of stay, prescriptions, level of care, and other options. Prior authorization upsets everyone in healthcare for various reasons, and ranks as one of the most divisive issues in the industry.

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Bonus Features – October 30, 2022 – 46% of Americans have gone into debt paying medical bills, 41% say retail and virtual care experiences are disjointed, and more

Healthcare IT Today

DoseData released an RFID-tagged drug database to help pharma companies monitor drug supplies within hospital inventory systems. Cohere Health expanded its relationship with Humana , which will now use the vendor’s tools to support cardiovascular and surgical service prior authorization.

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Privacy Consent on FHIR - looking for initial feedback

Healthcare Exchange Standards

So I have come up with four levels, each builds upon the prior: Implicit Consent -- simply that a system declares that it can handle a default policy to be used when there is no Consent on file. This default policy support would include: deny all, deny except for break-glass , permit for treatment only, permit for any otherwise authorized.

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What Are The Current Regulatory Changes And Compliance Requirements That ASCs Need To Be Aware Of In Their Billing Practices?

Healthcare IT Today

ASCA members can view an ASC-specific surveyor tag tool. They follow Medicare reimbursement policies, coding and documentation guidelines, HIPAA compliance, fraud, and abuse prevention, prior authorization, and state-specific regulations. ASCs can reduce errors and non-compliance by partnering with such providers.

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Gen Z and Millennials: What They Want from Healthcare

MeMD

A 2019 survey from the American Psychological Association (APA) showed 91% of Gen Z survey respondents reported a physical or emotional symptom due to stress and mental illness in the prior year. In fact, research from Oregon Health Authority shows that every $1 invested in primary care yields $13 in savings in downstream costs in healthcare.

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Healthcare is broken. Electronic prior authorization might be the first step in fixing it.

Redox

Payers, providers, regulators, and patients rarely agree, but they are united in their disdain for prior authorization. Prior authorization “is a non-computerized kabuki of payment” that “needs to get rethought.” What is prior authorization? It might, quite literally, be the worst.

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Segmenting Sensitive Health Topics

Healthcare Exchange Standards

It explains that some data is sensitive simply because of who authored it (Betty Ford Clinic), which is clear by looking at the author element. Back 20 years ago, there seemed to be an expectation that when a clinician recorded some fact, they would also tag that fact with a sensitivity tag.

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