CMS.gov

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

Administrator, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Leadership. Approximately 60 million people live in rural areas – including millions of Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries. Also, Medicare will now pay separately for Remote Evaluation of Recorded Video and/or Images Submitted by the Patient. Jeremy.Booth@c….

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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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Health Populi

MARCH 19, 2019

Payors have begun to recognize the value of nudging consumers toward over-the-counter products under Medicare Advantage plans. Keech Combe Shetty, granddaughter of Ivan and Co-CEO of Combe, bolstered the importance of women’s leadership in the health care industry as both a role model and supporter.

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CMS.gov

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

Thu, 11/30/2017 - 15:28. Leadership. Medicare and other payers are rapidly moving toward a healthcare system that rewards high quality care while spending more wisely. CMS releases its Measures Under Consideration List for 2018 pre-rulemaking. keya.joy-bush@…. Kate Goodrich, M.D., Initiatives. End-Stage Renal Disease.

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care innovations

JANUARY 2, 2019

2018 began with a bang, as the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) officially “unbundled” CPT code 99091 to give eligible practitioners the ability to receive separate reimbursement for certain remote care services. I believe the common denominator in successful programs is courageous leadership,” he writes. “I

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 30, 2021

In 2017, the health system – which has 100 continuing care locations, including home care, hospice, PACE programs and senior living facilities – was in a bind, facing double-digit hospital readmissions of 16% across its high-risk Medicare population. Trinity Health has 94 hospitals across 24 states. THE PROBLEM.

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Lloyd Price

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

If you consider its leadership team (led by surgeon and best-selling writer Atul Gawande) and Amazon’s yearslong gesturing toward healthcare and previous comments by Berkshire Hathaway founder Warren Buffett, some clues come into focus. KPMG’s Shehata views Haven’s leadership hirings as proof that it’s taking data concerns seriously.

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Henry Kotula

JULY 15, 2018

The organizations featured on this list offer benefits and opportunities for employees to build successful careers above and beyond the average healthcare provider or company; they encourage professional development and promote leadership from within. Adventist Health System (Altamonte Springs, Fla.). Boca Raton (Fla.) Regional Hospital.

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HIStalk Weekender

AUGUST 10, 2018

CMS releases a draft rule that would overhaul the Medicare Share Savings Program. DoD will be first in line once it’s ready, so as to exhibit “leadership,”right?) percent from 1988 to 2017 – largely driven by technology companies such as Epic — while Milwaukee County had just a 1.5 Weekly News Recap. percent increase.

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Henry Kotula

MARCH 29, 2023

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. Changing leadership doesn’t change the new environment. That’s unsettling.

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ACA Times

OCTOBER 4, 2017

This, despite what seemed to be openings to support a bipartisan effort from the White House and Republican leadership in the Senate. KFF notes: “…of the 42 states (including DC) that provided an estimate of when they will run out of their FY 2017 CHIP allotment, 10 anticipate exhausting funding by the end of 2017.

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HIStalk Weekender

MAY 25, 2018

A KLAS report on hospital EHR market share finds that most new sales in 2017 were to hospitals of under 200 beds, Epic led by far in overall net hospital count change, and CPSI and Allscripts lost more than 30 net hospitals each last year. It’s just an incredibly lazy lack of leadership/stewardship. Weekly News Recap. Vaporware? ).

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Health Populi

AUGUST 3, 2018

The Kaiser Health Tracking Poll has measured this sentiment over time, with this survey (shown in the bar chart) from 2017 finding the vast majority of Americans favoring Federal government negotiation to lower prices of drugs for people on Medicare. This is how it’s done in other nations. But this is simply sanctioning U.S.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

“Let’s get this thing f-ing done,” Martha McSally passionately asserted on May 4, 2017. In this case, I feel it’s important to capture the Zeitgeist of the Republican Party’s commitment to cutting down the ACA since President Trump took office in January 2017. Paul Ryan said, on the floor of the U.S.

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