care innovations

DECEMBER 12, 2018

Changes to policy regarding telehealth and remote patient management (RPM) — and, specifically, changes affecting the reimbursement for these services offered by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) — are having an effect on the usage of digital delivery on the larger healthcare industry.

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CMS.gov

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

2018 Medicare Fee-For-Service improper payment rate is lowest since 2010. Administrator, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. 2018 Medicare Fee-For-Service improper payment rate is lowest since 2010 Significant progress in saving $4.59B in estimated improper payments for the Medicare Fee-For-Service program.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

And that the costs (estimated at $754 million in 2015) were mostly paid by Medicare and Medicaid (the latter likely in nursing homes.) Did you know that medical costs from falls was $50 billion in were projected to be $52 billion in 2020? Read more. .

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Health Populi

JUNE 13, 2018

Even with moderating medical trend growth, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) expect that healthcare spending will account for 20% of the U.S. PwC notes that consumer income had a “dramatic drop” in 2015 and 2016, which will lead to a dampening impact on healthcare spending in 2019. economy by 2026.

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GlobalMed

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Senior leadership at a research think tank or a chain of skilled nursing facilities may not understand virtual care’s value. Medicare, Medicaid and commercial payers can pay the same service differently. Without top-down commitment to new care delivery models, telemedicine adoption won’t thrive where it’s needed most.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Fortunately, it has become easier in recent years, with Medicare now offering reimbursements for CCM services. The program is offered through Medicare and is available to beneficiaries who have been diagnosed with one of these chronic conditions and who meet certain other criteria. registered nurses, etc.)

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Kaiser Permanente Center for Total Health

MAY 9, 2016

Patti Harvey, senior VP, Medicare Clinical Operations and Population Care, and executive director, Care Management Institute, has been a nurse for years, but nothing in her training prepared her for her role as her mother’s caregiver. My mother passed away in November of 2015, so this will be my first Mother’s Day without her.

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American Well

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

implementing the technology in 2015. The federal government has pegged the cost of hospital readmissions for Medicare patients at $26 billion annually, with $17 billion accounting for readmissions that result in patients not receiving the right care. Readmission Reduction. In 2011, hospitals spent $41.3 Better Staff Utilization.

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Lloyd Price

OCTOBER 16, 2018

It may be too early to start imagining a world where health care is truly owned by Big Tech — you order prescription drugs with your Amazon Prime account, see a nurse at the Apple Clinic, get your benefits statements from Google, and call an Uber instead of an ambulance when you need to go to the hospital. But something is happening here.

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American Well

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

implementing the technology in 2015. The federal government has pegged the cost of hospital readmissions for Medicare patients at $26 billion annually, with $17 billion accounting for readmissions that result in patients not receiving the right care. Readmission Reduction. In 2011, hospitals spent $41.3 Better Staff Utilization.

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Health Populi

MAY 20, 2022

108,405 for a private room in a skilled nursing facility. The American Psychological Association recently polled Americans in the perennial Stress in America study , finding that stress about money is the highest the APA has observed since 2015. For additional context and potential sticker-shock, note that long-term care in the U.S.

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Henry Kotula

JANUARY 24, 2018

Doctors and nurses leave and buildings are shuttered, maybe demolished. In 2015, the most recent year of data, these service reductions accounted for nearly half of the hospital closures recorded around the country, according to the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission. (By When most hospitals close, it’s plain to see.

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Henry Kotula

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

This has been especially true in ACA exchange plans and Medicare Advantage (MA). In fact, a recent Kaiser Family Foundation study found that 35% of MA enrollees were in narrow-network plans in 2015, while only 22% were in broad-network plans. Bentley said narrow provider networks haven’t had a huge impact yet.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 22, 2023

The following is a guest article by Amy Hester, PhD, RN, BC, FAAN, Chairwoman and CEO at HD Nursing The growing use of artificial intelligence (AI) across a number of industries, particularly in healthcare, has shown both great promise as well as cause for alarm. She is an adjunct faculty at UAMS College of Nursing.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 3, 2023

Louis, Missouri, embarked on amplifying a new digital-first frontier in 2015: A new virtual care model of remote patient monitoring for patients living with complex conditions. "We knew we would be unable to continue this growth rate or we would risk encountering a shortage of nurses and advanced practitioners in the St.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 16, 2020

The pandemic generated uneven experiences for millions of Americans as physicians, therapists, nurse practitioners, hospitals and other caregivers – all coming to telehealth with varying levels of experience themselves – tried suddenly to meet patients where they were, said PwC researchers.

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HIStalk Weekender

JUNE 29, 2018

A JAMA-published study finds that Medicare-insured seniors were in 2015 less likely to die in hospitals instead of their homes compared to 2000. Contribute regularly as a provider CIO, IT director, or informatics nurse (anonymous or not). Monday Morning Update 6/25/18. Get Involved. Be interviewed (providers).

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American Well

MARCH 17, 2016

The term marks the seismic shift in the healthcare industry’s focus on telehealth in 2015, which had been previously focused almost exclusively on delivering urgent care treatment to patients. Telehealth 2.0: Telehealth 2.0 is a term coined by Roy Schoenberg, our co-founder and CEO of American Well.

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American Well

MARCH 17, 2016

The term marks the seismic shift in the healthcare industry’s focus on telehealth in 2015, which had been previously focused almost exclusively on delivering urgent care treatment to patients. Telehealth 2.0: Telehealth 2.0 is a term coined by Roy Schoenberg, our co-founder and CEO of American Well.

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American Well

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

Lack of understanding about how each of the three major payer types—Medicare, Medicaid, and commercial payers—reimburse for telemedicine visits has understandably prevented many providers and delivery systems from making informed decisions about adopting this technology. A Final Note – Medicare Advantage. Patient Setting.

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American Well

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

Lack of understanding about how each of the three major payer types—Medicare, Medicaid, and commercial payers—reimburse for telemedicine visits has understandably prevented many providers and delivery systems from making informed decisions about adopting this technology. A Final Note – Medicare Advantage. Patient Setting.

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Redox

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Perhaps more importantly, Meaningful Use spurred adoption on the provider side, requiring that providers use certified EHRs to receive Medicare and Medicaid funds. Suddenly, EHR usage was nearly universal and the immunization documentation process was electronifying at the point of care. EHR vendors geared up to take on this new challenge.

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HIStalk Weekender

AUGUST 24, 2018

Anthem settles its huge 2015 data breach for $115 million. Payments models are complex and in flux; Medicare and Medicaid future uncertain, human factors play a huge role in these processes. I wonder if all this has contained the rate of Medicare spending? Best Reader Comments. ROI is challenging. ( Ann Farrell ). Mipsvendor ).

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Henry Kotula

JULY 15, 2018

Advocate Health Care, one of Chicagoland’s largest employers, has more than 35,000 associates, including 11,000 nurses and nearly 6,300 affiliated physicians. The health system provides employees opportunities to take part in global mission trips, and its wellness program offers incentives for maintaining a healthy lifestyle.

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Docnotes

JANUARY 30, 2022

In a global model, the lead health system VBP entity—whether part of an integrated delivery system or clinically and financially integrated IPA or ACO—would extend successes and performance across payor types, including Medicaid fee-for-service (FFS), Medicaid managed care, Medicare FFS, Medicare Advantage, and/or commercial plans.

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Henry Kotula

APRIL 14, 2023

But hospitals argue the fees cover the cost of nurses, lab technicians, medical records and equipment — and that limiting them could reduce patient care. Connecticut is updating a 2015 law that required notifications when facility fees were being charged by hospitals.

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Henry Kotula

MARCH 29, 2023

From 2015 to 2020, our health system team added 0.6 Not surprisingly, congressional lobbying was intense during the last two weeks of 2022 in a partially successful effort to ameliorate spending cuts for Medicare payments for physicians and hospitals. To avoid a nurse labor strike, KP gave 21,000 nurses and nurse practitioners a 22.5%

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ACA Times

JUNE 14, 2017

For many Americans, the understanding of healthcare when it comes to senior citizens is that their benefits are derived from Medicare. million) in 2015. However, as the KFF points out, nursing homes and home health care are pricey; in 2016 the former cost an average of $82,000 a year, the latter $46,000 a year.

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Henry Kotula

JANUARY 21, 2019

At Riverside Health System, a rural health network in Newport News, Virginia, a long-term telebehavioral health initiative has improved coordinated care among psychiatrists and clinical social workers, as well as replaced a chunk of services offered at the system’s nursing homes. Medicare Advantage still lucrative, popular.

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