DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

The 2024 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (PFS) Final Rule, set forth by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), brings pivotal updates in healthcare reimbursement. The implications of these changes extend to reimbursement strategies, service delivery methods, and overall patient care quality.

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Society for Participatory Medicine

APRIL 9, 2020

Health data exchange architectures, application interfaces, and standards enable data to be accessed and shared appropriately and securely across the complete spectrum of care, within all applicable settings and with relevant stakeholders, including by the individual.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 30, 2023

from 2019 to 2022 – or more than double the rate of increase for Medicare IPPS reimbursement (7.5%). over the same time period, Additionally, 74% of hospitals reported an increase in the number of administrative tasks related to health insurance policies, compared to just 2% who reported a decrease.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 22, 2022

We can expect value-based contracting in 2023 to embed health equity incentives, such as this contract struck between Independence Blue Cross and Jefferson Health to address health for residents of Philadelphia including the Accelerate Health Equity initiative. As health consumers, U.S.

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Henry Kotula

JULY 28, 2023

As we noted, this was due to such factors as higher-than-normal expenses for staff, supplies, and pharmaceuticals and lower revenues. Other notable consolidations include the finalization of tech-giant Amazon’s purchase of One Medical , a primary care network. billion in 2022, a 57 percent year-over-year drop.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Government Accountability Office (GAO) just looked at behavioral health and COVID-19 , identifying higher-risk populations and how Federal relief funding is trying to address these health citizens. affected by behavioral health conditions: mental health and substance use disorders,” GAO highlighted.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 12, 2018

Since the CVS+Aetna announcement last December, the Kaiser Family Foundation ran some numbers on how the merged organization could impact Medicare — a key payor for both health insurance and prescription drugs under Part D.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Consumers will also seek food-as-medicine support from grocery stores, with companies such as Kroger growing its Kroger Health identity recently announcing its entry into “value-based primary care in the Atlanta metro market. so please stay tuned for more on consumer health tech trends and the growing retail health ecosystem.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 25, 2018

Expect health care costs and access to be at least as important to U.S. A key health care cost focus of Congress will target prescription drug costs. This list, and other names we’ll see creating on-ramps to primary care and self-care to the consumer, will expand in 2019.

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