Healthcare IT Today

MAY 16, 2024

This strategic acquisition aims to improve the patient experience and expedite access to vital specialty medications, such as infusions and in-office injectables primarily covered by medical benefits. These challenges lead to avoidable resubmissions and delays, frustrating healthcare providers and patients alike.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 23, 2023

Technology has became culturally accepted as an integral part of the patient experience as telemedicine gained popularity. government passed the Advancing Telehealth Beyond COVID-19 Act of 2022, which allows Medicare patients access to telehealth services, including audio-only services, through 2024. For example, the U.S.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Technology can help organizations identify more billable insurance coverage for self-pay patients, maximizing revenue, increasing efficiency and improving patient experience. As Medicare Beneficiary Identifiers (MBIs) only relate to Medicare coverage, providers need tools that will go beyond MBIs and caps from payer searches.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 15, 2019

Patients’ experiences with the health care industry fall short of their interactions with other industries — namely online retail, online banking and online travel, a new survey from Cedar, a payments company, learned. 33% of patients would like digital payment options.

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BHM Healthcare Solutions

MAY 11, 2023

In other words, these companies offer both insurance coverage and healthcare services to patients. This concept is a relatively new development in the healthcare industry, and it has the potential to significantly impact the way that healthcare is delivered and paid for. However, there are also potential downsides to payviders.

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Health Populi

MARCH 12, 2024

Today marks 20 days in the post-Change Healthcare environment, with some health executives already hypothesizing in Becker’s how this, the largest such health industry security breach ever, could re-shape American health care. The Department of Health and Human Services finally weighed in on the situation on March 5th.

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Health Populi

MARCH 12, 2020

Q2 – – Some industry observers have called this, “telehealth’s big moment.” For example, only health care providers that have an existing relationship with a Medicare patient would be eligible per the requirements in the legislation. Check out this last public health poster about Medicare and COVID-19.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

NABIP, whose members represent professionals in the health insurance benefits industry, drafted and adopted a new American Healthcare Consumer Bill of Rights launched at the meeting. There have been many versions of so-called “patient’s bills of rights” over the years.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 6, 2023

“We are confident that Wellvana’s solution-oriented model is best positioned to continue supporting physicians’ transition to a modern value-based care system that lowers costs, expands access, improves the patient experience, and enhances outcomes for all.”

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Health Populi

JUNE 6, 2021

The “digital front door” has become increasingly important to health care organizations, as well, with 63% of providers enabling patients to make appointments through their portal, and 61% providing online bill payment. Health Populi’s Hot Points: June 2021 is an auspicious month: first, it’s Pride Month! .”

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Iris Telehealth

JUNE 5, 2023

Every day, we see first-hand how telehealth improves access, bridges care gaps, and enhances patient experiences and outcomes. With the great demand for timely, high-quality care for many Americans, telehealth has changed how patients receive care and how health systems, community clinics, and providers facilitate care.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 23, 2020

As patients returned to in-person, brick-and-mortar health care settings after the first wave of COVID-19 pandemic, they re-enter the health care system with heightened consumer expectations, according to the Beryl Institute – Ipsos Px Pulse report, Consumer Perspectives on Patient Experience in the U.S.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 10, 2022

trillion healthcare industry. ” McKinsey is talking about Medicare’s spending that could be shifted home in just two+ years, ranging from $180 to a quarter of a trillion dollars. To CVS, the Signify purchase isn’t a wager on home health. It’s a missing piece—an investment in becoming a dominant player across the entire $4.1

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 21, 2023

Inflation, the COVID-19 pandemic, and healthcare staffing shortages have reshaped the industry landscape. Introduced to Congress on April 3 the “Strengthening Medicare for Patients and Providers Act,” is intended to help Medicare payments keep pace with economic challenges like inflation.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Caravan Health President and CEO Tim Gronniger previously was chief of staff and director of delivery system reform at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. In 2019 and 2020, its partners earned $300 million in Medicare savings, more than $120 million in shared savings, and quality scores exceeding 97%, the company reported.

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Henry Kotula

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Industry experts expect significant changes to shake up the healthcare landscape in the next few years, which will affect both health insurers and providers. The upward trend in value-based payment models is also influencing this shift, with the goal of reducing the cost of care and improving the overall patient experience,” Timoni says.

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Health Populi

MAY 16, 2019

David Asch of the University of Pennsylvania’s Penn Medicine Center for Health Care Innovation, and fellow researchers, recognize the fact that industries outside of health care that have lowered their cost structures have enabled consumers to DIY some of their consumption or service access.

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Health Populi

APRIL 16, 2024

Presidential elections to that point, and that the last retiring Baby Boomer enrolls in Medicare that year. Let’s take a walk with “Quincy” through each of the four worlds to see how their health care experience might play out across the key driving forces. In 2030, every Boomer will have been eligible for Medicare.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 19, 2022

Canvas provides a full-stack ambulatory EMR and digital health developer platform, enabling both established and startup healthcare providers to launch new patient experiences and business models faster. Founded in 2015, Canvas is reimagining the EMR for the future of healthcare.

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Health Populi

JULY 26, 2022

Iora Health has focused on the Medicare-enrolled population, distinct from ONEM’s target patient market of younger, employed consumers. “If Amazon’s data expertise can reduce that waste, this in theory can lower costs for patients,” Laz optimistically forecasted. bn and MGM Studios for $8.5 billion. .

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 22, 2022

The updated ACO Reach payment model from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) sets forth a value-based model of capitated payments to physicians who meet quality and spending targets – combined with a plan to deal with health equity. Getting to health equity is a team sport and requires collaboration.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 6, 2022

With a revolutionary new platform, an industry leading compensation, benefits and equity package, and a mission-driven culture, Rippl will empower and enable its clinicians to deliver exceptional, personalized mental health care to seniors and their families. These patients cost Medicare 2.5

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 21, 2023

Series B funding proceeds will enable Scene to further accelerate its ability to serve Medicaid and Medicare managed care plans, pharmaceutical companies, and clinical research organizations. ABS Capital: building emerging growth businesses into industry leaders. For more information, visit  abscapital.com.

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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. The Academy convened a team with experience and gravitas to inform this report.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 12, 2023

With patients shifting toward a digital-first approach for care navigation, health plans will need to embrace a broader set of care delivery mechanisms and make the full spectrum of specialist options easier to find. Health consumers demand better care experiences. Ted Shannon, CFO at Strive Health.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Medicare Advantage programs are vaunting their support for “wellness,” and you see wellness campaigns at pharmacies, employers, and elsewhere. Process indicators are the basis of the Medicare’s Star ratings , probably the most important measures clinicians pay attention to. Do these programs give us what we seek?

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Xealth

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Health systems know engaging the unengaged and underserved populations is a huge challenge, especially with economic factors like widespread inflation taking their toll on more patients. Now you are talking about adding value to your healthcare system — and the patient experience.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 4, 2024

In the next year, we’ll see further evolution of hybridized care models where parts of virtual care are leveraged to improve access and patient experience. Second, virtual care teams can help busy health system specialists manage chronic care patients, freeing up more of their time for new and/or more complex patients.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

They know that modern platforms will improve their internal operations, help increase revenue collection, and improve the patient experience. The healthcare industry has an amazing opportunity to revolutionize the tools it uses in delivering next-level healthcare.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 16, 2022

Sadly, unless the industry’s economic model changes, all but the wealthiest Americans could find this type of support out of reach. A combination of severe staffing challenges, rising costs, and tightening reimbursement spell a perfect storm for the industry. This dynamic leaves the industry with a herculean task.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 13, 2024

Providers not using certified EHR may face downward payment adjustments to their Medicare reimbursements in the affected payment year. Yet, the benefits in decision-making, patient care, and the avoidance of medical errors are significant. Non-compliance with predictive DSI requirements may result in penalties or loss of certification.

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Health Populi

JUNE 6, 2023

In health care, one of the “gifts” inspired by the coronavirus pandemic was the industry’s fast-pivot and adoption of digital health tools — especially telehealth and more generally the so-called “digital front doors” enabling patients to access medical services and personal work-flows for their care.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 1, 2023

Founded in 2006 by healthcare leaders, NYeC works to help New York State achieve the Triple Aim of improving the patient experience of care, delivering better health outcomes, and reducing costs. As always, you can search our Health IT job board for a variety of jobs from leading companies in the industry.

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Health Populi

MARCH 1, 2018

“Health agencies will have to become at least as sophisticated as other consumer/retail industries in analyzing a variety of data that helps uncover root causes of human behavior,” Gartner recommended in 2017. That’s because “health” is not all pre-determined by our parent-given genetics.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 18, 2023

By addressing health problems before they require emergency intervention, both patients and the health system save money and see better outcomes. Value-based care makes care more affordable for patients while rewarding clinicians for improved care, and the industry recognizes the value.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 5, 2023

That’s a huge win for nurses and patients alike, and I think more organizations will be investigating and deploying solutions like this in the coming year. Staffing issues, record losses, and burnout continued to plague the healthcare industry in 2022. Emily Goetz, Vice President of Commercial at Bright.md.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

healthcare spending, with curves moving up and to the right, and the Medicare Hospital Insurance Trust Fund moving into the opposite direction toward insolvency by 2033. The Report synthesizes a database covering |300M American lives and 2.7M practicing providers” largely found in Trilliant Health’s data trove.

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