As President Biden promised in his State of the Union address, the Department of Justice has appointed a prosecutor for pandemic fraud. The DOJ on Thursday named Associate Deputy Attorney General Kevin Chambers as director for COVID-19 Fraud Enforcement.
The Department of Health and Human Services, through the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration and the Office of Minority Health, will provide close to $35 million in funding toward strengthening and expanding mental health services and suicide prevention programs for children and young adults. Of the total, $9.2 million comes from the American […]
After a $150 million Series D funding round announced in December, Papa CEO and founder Andrew Parker has plans for the senior-care startup.
As a concept, Medicare Advantage isn’t new. Originally known as Medicare Plus Choice, it was passed with bipartisan support under the Clinton Administration with an eye toward giving seniors another option for receiving Medicare benefits. Flash forward to 2022, and the program has evolved into a full-blown force: Payers love it, patients report high satisfaction […]
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.