Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

We like to regularly feature a healthcare IT job that might be of interest to readers. Today, we’re featuring the Healthcare Data Analyst position that was recently posted on Healthcare IT Central. Looks like a great opportunity for those with experience with healthcare data analysis.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 17, 2024

healthcare organizations, which analyzes auditing, charge analysis, and denial assessment data from MDaudit’s network of more than 650,000 providers and 2,200 facilities. Those are the high-level findings of MDaudit’s 2023 Benchmark Report on the trends, challenges, and opportunities encountered by U.S.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 13, 2022

As outlined in court documents , marketers identified Medicare and TRICARE beneficiaries to target for expensive medications – such as pain creams, scar creams, eczema creams and migraine medication – and durable medical equipment, including wrist, shoulder, knee and ankle braces. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 5, 2023

We like to regularly feature a healthcare IT job that might be of interest to readers. Today, we’re featuring the Healthcare Data Analyst position that was recently posted on Healthcare IT Central. Looks like a great opportunity for those with experience with healthcare data analysis.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 2, 2020

Secretary of Health and Human Services Alex Azar and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator Seema Verma to provide a written plan for permanent changes to Medicare, Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program rules around telehealth. Kat Jercich is senior editor of Healthcare IT News.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Reforming Medicare payment. Job regrets are greatest in hospital settings among doctors aged 31-50 working in emergency medicine, according to an analysis of 170 studies involving more than 239,000 doctors by the University of Manchester in England. " Andrea Fox is senior editor of Healthcare IT News. Stopping scope creep.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 6, 2023

Welcome to our Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup. Each week, we’ll be providing a look back at the articles we posted and why they’re important to the healthcare IT community. Technology can play a valuable role in making healthcare more convenient, but on if it’s affordable and accessible.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 29, 2024

A Congressional bill would promote behavioral therapy for obesity and extend Medicare coverage for drugs treating obesity. Arcadia has done research on disparities in GLP-1 treatment for diabetes among Medicare patients, which mirror familiar problems in other areas of health care.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

The number of Medicare TPEs and commercial payer take-back audits alone is skyrocketing. Medicare’s Targeted Probe and Educate audits use data analysis to identify clinics who have high claim error rates or unusual billing practices. Meanwhile, Medicare also has a Fee for Service Recovery Audit Program.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 30, 2021

The report, based on Trilliant Health's national all-payer claims database , found that about 38 million Americans, excluding traditional Medicare users, generated approximately 96 million video visits during COVID-19. Kat Jercich is senior editor of Healthcare IT News. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

Welcome to the weekly edition of Healthcare IT Today Bonus Features. Because there’s so much happening out there in healthcare IT we aren’t able to cover in our full articles, we still want to make sure you’re informed of all the latest news, announcements, and stories happening to help you better do your job.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 5, 2023

The following is a guest article by Erin Rutzler, Vice President of Fraud, Waste, and Abuse at Cotiviti In Delaware, more than 250 Medicare patients underwent unnecessary genetic testing based on telehealth consultations that often lasted less than two minutes— costing Medicare thousands of dollars per patient.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 6, 2020

As Kelly told Healthcare IT News , when the bill was introduced in June, the legislation required the Secretary of Health and Human Services to conduct a study within a year of the end of the emergency period that would summarize healthcare utilization patterns during the coronavirus. Otherwise telehealth won't work."

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 29, 2023

Welcome to our Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup. Each week, we’ll be providing a look back at the articles we posted and why they’re important to the healthcare IT community. We asked members of the Healthcare IT Community to share their thoughts on the growing role of the Internet of Medical Things in managing healthcare data.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

Welcome to the weekly edition of Healthcare IT Today Bonus Features. Because there’s so much happening out there in healthcare IT we aren’t able to cover in our full articles, we still want to make sure you’re informed of all the latest news, announcements, and stories happening to help you better do your job.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 17, 2023

Welcome to the weekly edition of Healthcare IT Today Bonus Features. Because there’s so much happening out there in healthcare IT we aren’t able to cover in our full articles, we still want to make sure you’re informed of all the latest news, announcements, and stories happening to help you better do your job.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 7, 2023

Welcome to the weekly edition of Healthcare IT Today Bonus Features. Because there’s so much happening out there in healthcare IT we aren’t able to cover in our full articles, we still want to make sure you’re informed of all the latest news, announcements, and stories happening to help you better do your job.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 29, 2022

Healthcare IT News sat down with Chirichigno to get an inside look at how a national telemedicine platform works, and why bilingual service is so important to the company. Please describe how you deliver virtual healthcare. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication. Spanish speakers. Galileo operates across all 50 states.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 4, 2022

Welcome to the weekly edition of Healthcare IT Today Bonus Features. Because there’s so much happening out there in healthcare IT we aren’t able to cover in our full articles, we still want to make sure you’re informed of all the latest news, announcements, and stories happening to help you better do your job.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Welcome to the weekly edition of Healthcare IT Today Bonus Features. Because there’s so much happening out there in healthcare IT we aren’t able to cover in our full articles, we still want to make sure you’re informed of all the latest news, announcements, and stories happening to help you better do your job.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 4, 2022

Welcome to the weekly edition of Healthcare IT Today Bonus Features. Because there’s so much happening out there in healthcare IT we aren’t able to cover in our full articles, we still want to make sure you’re informed of all the latest news, announcements, and stories happening to help you better do your job.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 30, 2023

While it made "significant" changes to the Medicare Benefits Schedule (MBS), the expanded telehealth services were "only partly supported by sound implementation arrangements." FINDINGS Based on the state audit , the department fell short in governance, risk management, and evaluation of the telehealth expansion.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

"First, the data in this analysis are from a sample of four large national telehealth providers and do not represent all virtual encounters conducted during the study period. It follows on the heels of new numbers from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, which reported that 34.5 Twitter: @kjercich.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 26, 2022

Welcome to the inaugural edition of Healthcare IT Today Bonus Features. Because there’s so much happening out there in healthcare IT we aren’t able to cover in our full articles, we still want to make sure you’re informed of all the latest news, announcements, and stories happening to help you better do your job.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

The highest rates of telehealth visits were among Medicaid and Medicare users, along with Black patients and those earning less than $25,000 a year. Kat Jercich is senior editor of Healthcare IT News. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication. Although telehealth use rates were similar – ranging from 21.1%

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 19, 2024

So let’s take a deeper look into healthcare at home to see how it has evolved over time, the technology that is driving this change, and how it is impacting our patients and providers. We reached out to our brilliant Healthcare IT Today community to get their insights into this topic. The following is what they had to say.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 17, 2023

It also represents one of the largest deployments of Generative AI within healthcare. HDAI has additional collaborations with over 40 Medicare Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) through which it collectively generates 50 million weekly predictions for one million patients.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 8, 2023

By Bill Siwicki | June 15, 2023 News How one practice's EHR helped offset its declining Medicare reimbursements The all-in-one practice management system reduced the amount of time a patient needs to spend in.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 13, 2023

Although this focus started with attention to the population covered by Medicaid, the healthcare field has recognized that health equity is a relevant issue to populations covered by Medicare, Commercial, and other health insurance coverage. We are defining VBC as a methodology to align incentives between a Payor and a Provider.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 23, 2023

Social Determinants of Health (SDoH) Data Analysis will Gain Traction Once again, SDoH generated a lot of buzz over the past year. Medicare saved $1.6 In addition, Medicare has a goal for 2030 whereby all beneficiaries are to be treated by a VBC provider. We’re excited to see where this goes.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 19, 2022

Maulik Majmudar, chief medical officer and cofounder at Biofourmis, a vendor of personalized, predictive health IT – who prior to that served as Amazon’s medical officer who led the launch of Halo – sat down with Healthcare IT News to discuss the crisis and potential solutions. Twitter: @SiwickiHealthIT.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 11, 2021

In November, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services took several new steps to help U.S. Previously with Medicare, programs like mine had no way to bill for care. Now this is the opportunity to bill Medicare for home hospital-level care, and this is going to be offered all across the country."

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

We like to regularly feature a healthcare IT job that might be of interest to readers. Today, we’re featuring the Data Scientist position that was recently posted on Healthcare IT Central. This position was posted by New York eHealth Collaborative and is in New York. Other duties as assigned. Tableau, ggplot).

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

While there are countless problems and struggles in healthcare, there are a lot of ideas and technologies right now that are working to make things better. We reached out to our wonderful Healthcare IT Today Community and asked them: which health IT trend has you most excited and why is it exciting?

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

For example telehealth utilization increased 63x (in Medicare alone!) Additionally, an Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation report found that Medicare visits conducted through telehealth skyrocketed from approximately 840,000 in 2019 to 52.7 between the beginning of 2019 and the end of 2020.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Andrew Eye, CEO of the healthcare data science company ClosedLoop , estimates that about 15% of physicians collect SDoH-related data from patients and use it to assess their needs. Data can be spotty, according to Eye, who says for instance that data from Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) often lacks racial identifications.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 23, 2021

" The group plans to lobby policymakers to broaden coverage for care services in the home – including extension and expansion of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services' Hospital Without Walls provisions – advocate for bundled-payment models, home-based care and more. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS publication.

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