In his State of the Union address, President Joe Biden called for Medicare to set higher standards for nursing homes. The most controversial is the president’s call for “sufficient” staffing.
Dr. Patrick J. Guffey, chief medical information officer at Children’s Hospital Colorado, is on a mission to get rid of pagers. Most are not HIPAA compliant. There’s no link from pager to the EHR without manual transcription. It’s another device physicians have to carry in addition to their smartphones, Guffey said. But most physicians carry […]
A little over a month ago, Scripps Health made a plea to patients in San Diego: Be kind to healthcare workers. They’re exhausted, they’re burned out, and they increasingly have to deal with demeaning and verbally abusive comments from patients.
Healthcare groups urge DEA to allow physicians to prescribe controlled substances through telehealth
A group of 72 healthcare organizations, including the American Telemedicine Association and the American Psychiatric Association, has penned a letter to the Drug Enforcement Administration and Department of Health and Human Services asking the agencies to permanently waive the requirement that patients receive an in-person evaluation prior to being pre
In our last column, we took a look at how U.S. health plans operate in a world of rising expectations based on: value-based reimbursement; consumerization; healthcare cost management; and regulatory compliance. In this second part of the series, we’ll give the best strategic plan of attack for each of these four trends.
In the first part of this series, we looked at a transformative year in healthcare and presented the ongoing shift from the Risk Adjustment Processing System to the Encounter Data Processing System. Here we present submission deadlines and what success does, and doesn’t mean, so plans are not surprised when a high acceptance rate results […]
Earlier this year, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services released the results of the first year of the reinsurance and risk adjustment provisions of the Patient Protection & Affordable Care Act.
Finding the path to success in the post-Affordable Care Act world of healthcare represents a great opportunity and challenge for payer organizations. Part of that journey is changing the relationship dynamic between payers and providers.
U.S. health plans today operate in a world of rising expectations. They must work to contain rising healthcare costs, while at the same time catering more to consumers as the ultimate users of their products, rather than solely satisfying the demands of employers.
