Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

One challenge is finding the right patient payer information. Technology can help organizations identify more billable insurance coverage for self-pay patients, maximizing revenue, increasing efficiency and improving patient experience. The following is a guest post from Inovalon.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 3, 2024

Monitoring devices to measure vital signs Backup power supply and backup internet Patients can also access the technology for inpatient case management resources, home-delivered meals, infusion therapies, mobile imaging, physical and occupational therapies and more.

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BHM Healthcare Solutions

APRIL 10, 2018

Editor’s Note: Medicare Advantage organizations (MAOs) continue to do a poor job of maintaining accurate provider directories—and it’s landing some in hot water with the federal government. The Medicare Advantage program continues to grow in popularity with both consumers and health plans.

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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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BHM Healthcare Solutions

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

For Medicare plans providing health coverage, such as Medicare Advantage or Medicare Cost plans, each plan is given an overall summary rating based on how it performs across five main categories: Chronic conditions management. Plus, consumers can see the scores while shopping for insurance plans.

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Digital Health Global

OCTOBER 24, 2023

In the United States, they offer a wide range of health benefit programs for individuals, employers, Medicare, and Medicaid beneficiaries, partnering with over 1.6 The mission is upheld through the fusion of technology and a team that enables individually tailored patient experiences.

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Digital Health Global

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Early detection of kidney disease may reduce Medicare costs associated with CKD by 74% or $63.2 The patient experience is simple: program participants receive their easy-to-use at-home test kit, collect a sample, and mail it back in a pre-paid envelope. billion based on data collected by Everly Health.

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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

MARCH 12, 2024

I’ll leave you with thoughts on patients’ access to medicines, already a stress-inducing issue for families whether dealing with sick kids or older folks managing Medicare Part D and cash in retirement.

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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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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

The technique involves finding data from public sources such as Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). Medicare launched a payment system for in-home treatment during the pandemic, and now more than 200 hospitals have been approved by Medicare for the service. offering in-home treatment.

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FierceHealthIT

JULY 30, 2018

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is planning to eliminate a set of questions on pain management from its nationwide patient experience survey, just months after rolling out updates to the questions.

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BHM Healthcare Solutions

MAY 11, 2023

This can help reduce costs and im prove the overall patient experience. For example, if these organizations are incentivized to provide less care to patients in order to save money on insurance costs, this could compromise the quality of care that patients receive. However, there are also potential downsides to payviders.

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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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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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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 5, 2023

Although 90% of health systems face turnover rates of greater than 10% for roles in RCM and patient experience, only 25% of executives are looking at AI or workflow improvements to improve efficiency , an Experian Health survey found. That’s down from 34% last year.

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Digital Health Hub

DECEMBER 2, 2022

This increased cost burden is depleting the Medicare funding which will eventually go bankrupt. There will be difficulty in funding the tax-funded Medicare program. So there will inevitably be an imbalance in the Medicare funding inflow vs. expenses, affecting the healthcare system severely in the coming years.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 7, 2022

But ambulatory health care providers can also tap IT to improve their patient experience, work loads, and revenues. Cookeville Medical Clinic , a provider with four clinics in central Tennessee, proves this.

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Digital Health Global

MARCH 8, 2023

Campaigns can be executed quickly and in alignment with Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services guidelines. Care Angel deploys solutions that help payers, in addition to providers, health systems, and traditional and virtual healthcare delivery organizations, improve the patient experience and maximize the use of scarce resources.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 19, 2024

SDOH Data is Vital for ACO Reach CMS’ Accountable Care Organization Realizing Equity, Access, and Community Health (ACO REACH) model is designed to improve the quality of care for people with traditional Medicare. Collecting the SDOH data necessary for ACO REACH can be awkward and challenging,” said Weber.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

More than 85% of the patients served by Temple are covered by government programs, including Medicare and Medicaid. Patients dually eligible for both Medicare and Medicaid make up roughly half of the Medicare inpatient base. “The main metrics include volume, access, patient experience and total cost of care.”

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

In addition to highlighting the Patient’s Bill of Rights, NABIP’s keynotes and general sessions will speak to similar topics being brainstormed at VIVE this week — including mental health, maternal health, pharmacy and prescription drugs (pricing, PBMs), population health, and Medicare and Medicaid innovations.

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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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Lloyd Price

AUGUST 23, 2023

This ensures that patients receive the care they need, when they need it. VBC is still a relatively new approach to healthcare, but it has the potential to improve the quality of care, reduce healthcare costs, and improve the patient experience.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

"Nuvance Health's neurologists will use a digital platform to remotely monitor patients and keep them mentally active with consistent and intense brain activities," said Dr. Paul Wright, senior vice president and system chair of the Neuroscience Institute at Nuvance Health.

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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 Hub

DECEMBER 2, 2022

This increased cost burden is depleting the Medicare funding which will eventually go bankrupt. There will be difficulty in funding the tax-funded Medicare program. So there will inevitably be an imbalance in the Medicare funding inflow vs. expenses, affecting the healthcare system severely in the coming years.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 13, 2022

However, earlier this month, it enforced changes to the Medicare Benefits Schedule for telehealth items , including the termination of 128 items, which some healthcare leaders warned would bring major consequences to patients. million ($1.5 million) project is also led by Monash University and is expected to deliver solutions by 2025.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

The SMART Health standard thankfully makes the patient’s job simple. A payer such as Medicare could just put a card on its web site for each patient to download. Once you have a card, uploading a URL or QR code to a web site should take no more effort than typing in your Medicare number. Version 2.0

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Health Populi

JUNE 26, 2023

Note that one-third of people enrolled in Medicare or employer-sponsored insurance (ESI) self-rationed care due to cost in the past year. The top reason people in the U.S. The Qualtrics Study explored the views of over 1,000 U.S. For more details on this important study, you can check out my post here in Health Populi from November 2022.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 9, 2021

The combination of simple technology and good service is helping to make remote patient monitoring (RPM) a key part of keeping patients healthy for primary care physicians. The team at Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University rolled out RPM and has seen a drop in avoidable ED visits and improved patient experience.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 10, 2022

” 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. Why, that’s just some months away from “now.” The authors of the essay are part of Kearney’s Health Practice team.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 23, 2023

For example, as outpatient services such as infusions outpace projections , and as the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services open the door to more outpatient procedures by moving 11 procedures off its “inpatient only” list, ambulatory providers must have the financial strength to make the investments needed to support growth.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 21, 2023

Inflation will push Payers back into the Public Marketplace whether Statewide and Federal Health Exchanges, Medicaid and Medicare Before the pandemic, many payers left statewide health exchanges as they found more ways to become profitable outside of the public market.

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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

MARCH 12, 2020

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. That’s Medicare, Australia-style, adopting telehealth in this coronavirus era.

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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. Scene reaching a milestone of impacting more than 200,000 lives with over 40M engagements through its 360° model of care.

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