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Medicare Patients Win the Right to Appeal Gap in Nursing Home Coverage

Kaiser Health News

A three-judge federal appeals court panel in Connecticut has likely ended an 11-year fight against a frustrating and confusing rule that left hundreds of thousands of Medicare beneficiaries without coverage for nursing home care, and no way to challenge a denial. But it can have serious repercussions.

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Integrated EHR enables shift to virtual post-discharge follow-up

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The research team studied nearly 250,000 hospital discharges in patients with diabetes from 2005 to 2011. From 2006 to 2010, they explained, an integrated delivery system staggered implementation of an integrated EHR across 17 hospitals. WHY IT MATTERS. ON THE RECORD.

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Physician burnout is at an all-time high, says AMA

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Reforming Medicare payment. Job regrets are greatest in hospital settings among doctors aged 31-50 working in emergency medicine, according to an analysis of 170 studies involving more than 239,000 doctors by the University of Manchester in England. physicians was 62.8% in 2021, compared with 38.2% in 2020, 43.9% in 2017, 54.4%

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More than 2,000 Hospitals, Including 131 in Florida, will be Penalized by Medicare for Excess Readmissions

The Health Law Firm

Lower Medicare reimbursement rates are coming in October of 2012, to 2,211 hospitals around the country, including 131 in Florida. This is allegedly due to excessive readmission rates in these hospitals between July 2008 and June 2011, according to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).

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Healthcare Data Breach Statistics

HIPAA Journal

WI Business Associate 4,112,892 Hacking/IT Incident 24 2023 Colorado Department of Health Care Policy & Financing CO Health Plan 4,091,794 Hacking/IT Incident 25 2013 Advocate Health and Hospitals Corporation, d/b/a Advocate Medical Group IL Healthcare Provider 4,029,530 Theft 26 2024 Concentra Health Services, Inc.

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The Unbearable Heaviness of Inflation: Will Consumers’ Financial Stress Erode Their Health?

Health Populi

By April, one-half of people living in America said their financial situation was getting worse, a reversal of fortune from several steady years of personal financial improvement which kicked off in 2011 as the U.S. emerged from the Great Recession of 2008. Yes, that Mark Cuban).

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The Health Care Costs for Someone Retiring in 2024 in the U.S. Will Reach $165,000 – Fidelity’s 23rd Annual Update

Jane Sarashon

I’ve covered this study every year since 2011 here in Health Populi, continuing to add to this bar chart; in the interest of space and legibility, I started this year’s version of the chart at 2014, when the cost for a couple was gauged at $220K. The average person in the U.S.