FierceHealthIT

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

The need for Medicare marketing regulations was crystal-clear 10 years ago. But a slew of changes to CMS' Medicare marketing guidelines this year expanded what plans can do at educational events, in providers' offices and more. Do these revisions create room for growth or opportunities for manipulation?

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Medicare 86

Digital Health Global

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Kicking off next week at the 14 th Annual RISE Star Ratings Master Class in San Diego, California, strategic partnerships with non-profit organizations (NPOs) will replace unnecessary branded swag at industry events. Conferences and events generate an estimated 600,000 tons of trash per year in the U.S.

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Digital Health Medicare 88

Digital Health Global

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Award Winning AI-Powered Risk Stratification – Free For All Medicare ACOs The first new product launching is ClosedLoop’s ACO-Predict , the industry’s first free solution for AI-powered population health risk stratification. With ACO-Predict we are bringing AI-powered prediction to every Medicare patient in the country.

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Medicare Accountable Care Digital Health 88

Insulin Nation

JULY 23, 2019

I quickly realized my primary care doctor was not very knowledgeable of T1D and despite the often-disliked Medicare insurance I had, I was fortunate to find an endocrinologist who had studied at the world-renowned T1D Barbara Davis Center in Denver. As noted, I am on Medicare and I had to fight to get an OmniPod pump.

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Health Populi

JUNE 18, 2021

with employer-sponsored health insurance worry that a major health event in their household could lead to bankruptcy, according to research gathered by West Health and Gallup in Business Speaks: The Future of Employer-Sponsored Insurance. One in two people in the U.S. Health Populi’s Hot Points: U.S.

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Public Health Medicare 334

Morning eHealth

JANUARY 17, 2019

Verma’s extremely online price transparency push — Event dispatches

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Medicare 77

FierceHealthIT

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

HHS won’t be able to bring down prices in Part D without “pitting drugs against each other,” Secretary Alex Azar said Tuesday at an AMA event.

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Medicare 107

Digital Health Global

OCTOBER 17, 2023

1 Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). Public Use Files (Medicare Claims) – Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners – by Geography and Service 2013-2020. 2 Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). Standard Analytical Files (Medicare Claims) – LDS 2021.

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Medicare Medical Technology Life Science Digital Health 88

Health Populi

MARCH 11, 2021

health care, patient assistance programs, Medicare Advantage plans, and the bundling of proven high-value preventive services into the Affordable Care Act. In the case of Medicare Part D, the drug benefit, Chandra said, “If you’re sick enough to fall into the donut hole, you may have higher mortality.”

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Health Policy Medicare Pharmaceuticals Life Science 245

Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

The number of Medicare TPEs and commercial payer take-back audits alone is skyrocketing. They also look to flag “items and services that have high national error rates and are a financial risk to Medicare.” Meanwhile, Medicare also has a Fee for Service Recovery Audit Program. Tricare and Medicare).

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 28, 2022

The health system said that patients on Medicare will pay fees ranging from $3 to $10, while consumers with Medicare Advantage or private insurance might face co-pays similar to those paid for video visits or in-person consultations. Private pay consults for patients without insurance will cost $35.

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Medicare EHR Telehealth Patient Experience 85

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Among the allegations are that Wolfe and her conspirators submitted well over $400 million in illegal durable medical equipment claims to Medicare and the Civilian Health and Medical Program of the Department of Veterans, relying on the guise of "telemedicine" to explain the unusually high volume of claims. THE LARGER TREND.

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Telemedicine Medicare Telehealth Healthcare IT 185

Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 10, 2023

These datasets, which are critical to patient care, workflow processes, quality reporting, financial claims, and operational tasks, are encoded with granular medical event data and are represented using common data standards such as HL7, FHIR, EDI, and 837s, among others.

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Life Science FHIR Accountable Care Interoperability 77

Health Populi

MAY 21, 2020

Among those covered with insurance, one-half had employer-sponsored insurance, 1 in 4 Medicare, and 13%, individual cover. There are other forms of fear taking hold of the COVID-19 era health consumer: namely, financial anxiety in the wake of the pandemic. Nearly every respondent in the study reported having health insurance coverage.

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Telehealth Medicare Patient Experience Mental health 398

Health Populi

APRIL 16, 2024

Presidential elections to that point, and that the last retiring Baby Boomer enrolls in Medicare that year. In 2030, every Boomer will have been eligible for Medicare. Then Medicare goes bust. This is your bite-sized version, which I’ve created as a “thinker-toy” for you to consider in your planning efforts….looking

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 4, 2023

Medicare: Medicare is a government health insurance program for people over 65 and for certain younger people with disabilities. Medicare does not generally pay for long-term care in a nursing home, but it may cover a limited stay in a nursing home under certain circumstances, such as after a hospitalization.

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Nursing Medicare 122

Digital Health Wire

JANUARY 30, 2023

The Pearl Platform assists primary care providers participating in Medicare’s ACO REACH model with identifying patients who are driving expenses, then incentivizes them to deliver high-value care. Unlike many competing platforms, Pearl doesn’t require an EHR integration.

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EHR Medicare Primary Care Digital Health 52

Health Populi

MARCH 12, 2020

The article returns to the advent of the SARS epidemic in China in 2003, which ushered in a series of events: people stayed home, and Chinese social media and e-commerce proliferated. For example, only health care providers that have an existing relationship with a Medicare patient would be eligible per the requirements in the legislation.

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Telehealth Medicare Telemedicine Public Health 292

ACA Times

AUGUST 17, 2021

People who experience either a disability determination, second qualifying event, extension under State mini-COBRA following a reduction in hours, or involuntary termination, during the time frame in which they were initially eligible for COBRA essentially have their COBRA eligibility period extended. .

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Medicare 98

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Furthermore, questions of post-discharge patient activity are likely to loom large in the coming weeks, as the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services require hospitals to send electronic notifications to other healthcare facilities when a patient is admitted, discharged or transferred.

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Health Populi

MAY 25, 2021

As we consider what the next slope of that curve could look like, we should think in terms of scenario planning: considering certainties, uncertainties, and wild cards (those potential events that disrupt our forecasts and are of relatively low-probability of happening). Access to care, covering both availability (e.g.,

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Telehealth Digital Health EHR Medical Technology 193

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 11, 2021

They're not submitting a telehealth claim to Medicare. Instead, sophisticated criminal organizations are partnering with telemarketing companies and sometimes unscrupulous doctors to essentially cold call Medicare beneficiaries, get them online with a doctor. Email the writer: mike.miliard@himssmedia.com. HIMSS21 Coverage.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 25, 2024

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services just released data on its Acute Hospital Care at Home initiative , which thus far has admitted 11,159 patients suffering from respiratory infections, heart failure and severe sepsis.

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Digital Health Patient Experience Healthcare IT Nursing 167

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Structural challenges, especially painful due to EHR barriers — with the promise of APIs (application programming interfaces) and the ongoing development of clinical decision support tools.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 5, 2020

In March, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services released new guidance regarding remote patient monitoring. You're heading off events before they become acute. If you do roll out RPM, pretty much these are the results you should expect," said Iance. "You're being very proactive with your patients.

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Public Health Medicare Healthcare IT 177

Health Populi

JUNE 6, 2023

A just-breaking report from the CDC explores the demographics of patients between 18 and 64 years of age (that is, not children and not folks of Medicare-age) who avoid prescription drugs due to cost, in Characteristics of Adults Age 18-64 Who Did Not Take Medication as Prescribed to Reduce Costs: United States, 2021. The proportion of U.S.

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Medical Billing Telehealth Digital Health Medicare 156

CMS.gov

MAY 13, 2021

On April 30, CMS announced the winner and runner-up of the CMS Artificial Intelligence (AI) Health Outcomes Challenge (“AI Challenge”), a prize competition for innovators to demonstrate how artificial intelligence tools can be used to accelerate the development of AI solutions that predict patient health events for Medicare beneficiaries for potential (..)

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Medicare 34

Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 23, 2020

Consider an upcoming HIMSS event in Orlando with the charming title: Monitoring Grandma: Adoption of Connected Health Tech by Seniors. The 2017 Harvard article indicates that 1 million had signed up for these home nurse visits – but there were 19 million people covered by Medicare Advantage plans in 2017. With persuasion?

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mHealth Connected Health Medicare Nursing 100

Health Populi

JUNE 24, 2021

For Medicare Part B programs alone, the drug could consume one-half of the total $57 billion of medicines spending… as much as the U.S. spends on NASA. The economic impacts of COVID-19 will impact how health care spending, and spending for families and households, for some years to come.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Orlando Health's program is the first in Central Florida to be approved by Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, and represents an expansion of a federal enhanced care model created during the pandemic to extend the scop of hospital resources. 15 and 16 from noon-4 p.m. THE LARGER TREND.

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Nursing Connected Health Medicare Hospital IT 111

Aging in Place Technology Watch

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Optimize event beginning today in Louisville: Duos. " The DUOS platform aggregates more than 100,000 unique Medicare benefits, local community resources, and government programs, alongside data and programming specific to your plan. Here are five exhibitors from the Aging 2.0

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Nursing EHR Medicare Telehealth 53

Aging in Place Technology Watch

MAY 26, 2022

Telehealth vs. in-person: the Covid-19 public health emergency declaration to reimburse doctors for providing telehealth services for Medicare recipients has been repeatedly renewed. Acute care delivery at home for Medicare recipients has been endorsed by the American Hospital Association – and bills supporting it may pass.

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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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Telehealth Medicare Telemedicine Public Health 40

GlobalMed

JANUARY 21, 2020

In addition to witnessing events like car wrecks, motorcycle decapitations and child abuse, they can suffer injuries from lifting obese patients, be stabbed with dirty needles or assaulted in the middle of a domestic dispute. Dire medical events and ambulance rides are often the most intense hours of a patient’s life.

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Telemedicine Medicare Nursing Primary Care 72

Aging in Place Technology Watch

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Medicare Advantage consumers will increasingly expect a smooth digital experience. As Medicare Advantage penetration expands beyond 51%, the plans’ offerings will begin to focus on ways to keep consumers healthy, or at least healthier over time. Unlike financial industry customers, health plan customers have had low expectations.

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Nursing Medicare 69

Health Populi

JUNE 6, 2021

One counter-force that would motivate providers to adopt virtual care as normal “healthcare” flow is value-based care.

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Telehealth Telemedicine Patient Experience Accountable Care 203

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Those patients trying to stay medication-adherent tried various strategies such as stretching out their prescriptions, skipping doses, or reducing those doses — not sticking to the prescribed regimen, which can result in an adverse event or compromise the intended health outcome.

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