BHM Healthcare Solutions

AUGUST 7, 2018

Editor’s Note: Increasing costs for prescriptions is creating a long-term financial impact on Medicare Part D and its beneficiaries. With the cost of drugs a critical issue in healthcare, health insurance companies and government payers need to understand how new and existing drugs compare in terms of benefits and risks.

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Health Populi

JUNE 27, 2022

Employers covering workers with health insurance are now dealing with employees and families who are “sicker than they were pre-pandemic,” Castlight asserts in its report. Based on their analysis of medical claims, insured workers’ clinical risk scores increased by 9.3%, from 1.18

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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. Stopping scope creep. Fixing prior authorization burdens. Reducing physician burnout.

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Digital Health Global

AUGUST 24, 2023

Trilliant Health opens access to its dynamic provider directory, making information about America’s 2.7 An application programming interface (API) and open-source toolkits will support third-party development and analysis, with basic access to the directory available at no cost. million providers publicly available for the first time.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 25, 2020

This drove health consumers to virtual care platforms in the first months of the public health crisis — including lots of older people who had never used telemedicine or even a mobile health app. Once adjusted for volumes, the higher expenses are more evident as hospitals struggle to hold down per-patient costs.”

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Data can be spotty, according to Eye, who says for instance that data from Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) often lacks racial identifications. According to vice president Ted Hill, it can modernize how public health agencies serve today’s needs. Casetivity can ingest, standardize, and share health data.

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Connected Health Initiative

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Millions of Americans turned to live audio and video visits with healthcare providers during the COVID-19 pandemic, and Congress needs to make decisions that will permanently affect how Americans, in particular Medicare patients, may access these telehealth services on a permanent basis. Postal Service—to detect these schemes and stop them.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

"Continued availability and promotion of telehealth services might play a prominent role in increasing access to services during the public health emergency." It follows on the heels of new numbers from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, which reported that 34.5 " WHY IT MATTERS.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 29, 2023

We heard about the benefits of access to real-time data, the importance of data standards, and the need for mature data analysis and data management infrastructures. Read more… Public Health Transparency Improves Outcomes in San Bernardino County. Concierge care platform Gradia Health secured $4.2

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Continue Education Journal

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Reimbursement: Some reimbursement changes from the pandemic have been made permanent, such as the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ expansion of reimbursable telehealth codes for the 2021 physician fee schedule. There is still uncertainty of the fate of other services as the public health emergency ends.

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BHM Healthcare Solutions

MAY 29, 2018

CLICK HERE and let us discuss how BHM’s clients benefit from our in-depth data-based reporting, analysis, and consultations. New research released by WellCare Health Plans, Inc. New research released by WellCare Health Plans, Inc. WellCare Health Plans, Inc. About USF College of Public Health.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

of health spending per person. Three factors will drive healthcare costs to 2026: prices for medical goods and services, changes in income growth, and shifting enrollment from private health insurance to Medicare — driven by the aging of Boomers. That equates to 18.4% of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and $12,230.40

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BHM Healthcare Solutions

AUGUST 27, 2019

Editor’s Note: Increasing costs for prescriptions is creating a long-term financial impact on Medicare Part D and its beneficiaries. Increasing costs for prescriptions is creating a long-term financial impact on Medicare Part D and its beneficiaries.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 7, 2023

News CMS has opened the Hardship Exception application period for eligible hospitals and critical access hospitals (CAHs) that participated in the Medicare Promoting Interoperability Program in 2022. The analysis also found that Z-codes are most frequently used in behavioral health and acute care settings.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 24, 2022

These are shown in the first diagram from the report, breaking out factors that have exacerbated challenges on both the demand and supply side of the American health economy. Many of these were already in motion before the COVID-19 pandemic emerged; the public health crisis exacerbated several of them. In the U.S.,

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Position Summary: This dynamic team is seeking a Data Scientist for the Analytics team within NYeC to use directly contribute to moving the needle on New York’s pressing healthcare needs you will leverage HIE and savvy data analytics to serve public health needs, address health inequities, and mature NYeC’s analytics capacity.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 28, 2023

Mimi Winsberg, Co-Founder and Chief Medical Officer at Brightside Health We have been in an uncertain time for regulation around telemedicine, and there are a few key trends to watch. Many organizations are conducting a full analysis of their sites and some have found more than 50 tools that create privacy risks.

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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. So there's a time limit on it.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 31, 2018

In 2016 at CES, I spoke with Ranndy about the company’s project #GoingforZero, a public health education campaign aiming for “zero” incidence of stroke. In this growing era of healthcare collaboration, Omron worked with AliveCor on the BP/EKG technology; here’s more detail on AliveCor’s website here.

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Health Law Blog | Telehealth

APRIL 24, 2020

The initial $30 billion was allocated based on the providers’ 2019 Medicare fee for services payments. The next $20 billion will also reach providers who receive only a small amount of Medicare revenue, e.g., children’s hospitals. Distribution will begin next week based on operating expenses. Care for Uninsured.

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Health Law Blog | Telehealth

APRIL 24, 2020

The initial $30 billion was allocated based on the providers’ 2019 Medicare fee for services payments. The next $20 billion will also reach providers who receive only a small amount of Medicare revenue, e.g., children’s hospitals. Distribution will begin next week based on operating expenses. Care for Uninsured.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

FEBRUARY 11, 2023

For example, patients with diabetes may use a glucose meter to regularly check their blood sugar levels, and then securely transmit this data to their healthcare provider for monitoring and analysis. This allows Medicare beneficiaries to receive medical treatment and consultation from the comfort of their own home.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

JANUARY 26, 2023

The survey results showed that behavioral health, particularly mental health, remained a top service category in the state fiscal year (FY) 2022. This is supported by data from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), which confirms the increased access and utilization of behavioral health services during the pandemic.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 3, 2021

Before joining Geisinger, she served as Pennsylvania’s secretary of health, where she developed an innovative payment and delivery model for rural hospitals. Before that she served as director of the State Innovation Models Initiative at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. CIO, Delaware Valley Community Health.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 8, 2018

With “Economy” embodied in the law’s name, a rationale for including HITECH in ARRA was, in part, to help stimulate the nation’s economy beyond the revenues of health IT companies many of whom, in the short-term, directly benefited from the law. Some historical perspective is useful for context.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

"These enforcement actions demonstrate that the telehealth industry should not only consider the law from a policy and operations perspective, but should also invest in a robust compliance infrastructure," wrote report authors in the 2021 Telemental Health Laws Survey analysis. WHY IT MATTERS.

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Henry Kotula

MAY 9, 2020

Federal officials have taken some steps to help small practices, including advancing Medicare payments and reimbursing doctors for virtual visits. Federal officials used last year’s payments under the Medicare program to determine which groups should get the initial $30 billion in funds. We will quickly go broke at this rate,” he said.

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Health Populi

JUNE 7, 2018

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 16, 2020

“Regulators, for their part, have tried to smooth the way for a pivot to virtual during the public health emergency. "Early on, CMS relaxed several administrative requirements; that resulted in physician relief, at least for the duration of the public health emergency."

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Sherri Onyiego, Medical Director for the Texas Market at Equality Health. They also obtain public health data by ZIP code and data from a Health Information Exchange (HIE). Spatially Health applies geospatial analysis to expand a provider’s understanding of SDoH data.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 28, 2023

The Acute Hospital Care at Home waiver program from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has grown to 125 health systems and 289 hospitals in 37 states in less than three years. A number of other health systems and hospitals have secured waivers but haven't yet implemented a program.

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Health Populi

MARCH 26, 2020

.” These factors come out of the 2019 Medicare Trustees Report and include but aren’t limited to tax policy, the state of insurance marketplaces, and employer-sponsored health insurance assumptions. As a public health person, I’m especially drawn to bolstering my “Quaranteam.”

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Henry Kotula

JULY 28, 2023

The series covered broad issues related to the healthcare workforce, economy, and health policy, and highlighted internal industry changes and trends in service delivery, quality, and equity. The most notable impact of the non-renewal of the PHE was the end of continuous Medicaid public health insurance coverage.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 18, 2021

CES 2021 featured some obvious quick-pivoting products that had the pandemic written all over them, with sessions invariably speaking to the way the public health crisis impacted companies and strategic plans. During the pandemic, inpatient hospital beds have been in short supply in various communities across the U.S.,

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Henry Kotula

MAY 18, 2021

Nationally, more than one in three people delayed or skipped care because they were worried about exposure to Covid-19, or because their doctor limited services, according to an Urban Institute analysis of a September 2020 survey. Public health messages early in the pandemic urged people to avoid public places, including doctor’s offices.

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Docnotes

JANUARY 30, 2022

Those with political power will retain it, and true public health decisions will be elusive. . Investments in Social Determinant of Health Networks (SDHNs) Development and Performance. We need front-line, agile program definition, rapid-cycle outcome analysis and the ability to change course when the evidence directs us.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 14, 2023

The administration says it seeks to bolster the IT posture of federal agencies by making "intentional investments at the right time" as well as address cybersecurity, health disparities and public health infrastructure needs. Increasing public health resilience For the U.S. Discretionary funding of $10.5

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