Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 17, 2021

According to the indictment , starting in May 2014 the defendants and their co-conspirators allegedly used telehealth to generate prescriptions for compounded medications and durable medical equipment, regardless of medical necessity.

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HIPAA Journal

APRIL 5, 2024

A lawsuit against CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield that was filed in response to a 2014 data breach has had a contract class certified by a federal judge, 9 years after legal action was initiated. In June 2014, hackers gained access to CareFirst systems, which contained the data of around 1.1

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HIPAA Journal

AUGUST 9, 2023

Those files included names, contact information, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, and health insurance information. TGH experienced a data breach in 2014 which was reported to the HHS’ Office for Civil Rights as an unauthorized electronic medical record access incident affecting 675 patients.

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Health Populi

JUNE 10, 2021

” Health Populi’s Hot Points: HIPAA, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, was signed into law in 1996 by President Bill Clinton. Eleven years later, Steve Jobs launched the first iPhone.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 22, 2020

Health Populi’s Hot Points: Since CVS/pharmacy morphed into CVS/health when it quit tobacco five years ago in 2014 , I began to intuit a shift in the U.S. where private sector organizations began to more visibly take on public health objectives and missions.

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Health Populi

MARCH 22, 2018

The concept of “ financial toxicity” for cancer patients was raised by concerned clinicians at Sloane-Kettering Medical Center, who discussed the topic on 60 Minutes in 2014 and have published papers on the issue. health citizens of the economic hardship of high-cost health problems.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 28, 2020

Smartphone adoption among older people grew by 50% since 2014, rising from 48% adoption among people 50+ to 79%. Most older Americans would share data collected through a wearable tech device with their health care provider, but a minority (35%) would share that information with a health insurance company.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 8, 2018

In March 2014, Danny Wegman, patriarch of the family-held Wegman’s grocery chain, came out in support of Governor Andrew Cuomo’s proposal for a statewide health information network in New York, where Wegman’s headquarters sits in Rochester. Beyond the local economic effects, think about the larger region or State.

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Later this year, FemTec Health will be announcing the company’s innovative consumer offering including the re-launch of Birchbox, shifting the focus from beauty product discovery to curated personalized skin and healthcare products utilizing the BiomeAI™ platform. FemTec Health currently has over 150 employees and is growing rapidly.

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HIT Consultant

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Many patients experience “crossroads moments” in their healthcare journey – windows of time where appropriate and swift action by providers and insurers is essential to optimize outcomes. Such opportunities to intervene often occur at care transitions.

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HIPAA Journal

MARCH 28, 2024

Fernald Developmental Center campus in Waltham, MA, which was sold to the city of Waltham in 2014. The documents had been improperly stored in the buildings since 2014 and many had degraded, so it was not possible to tell the exact types of information that had been exposed.

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 2, 2023

– In 2014, Accenture Federal Services was awarded a prime contract to take over management of the Federally-Facilitated Exchange (FFE). FFE is the backbone of Healthcare.gov, the federal government’s online marketplace connecting people and small businesses with available public and private health insurance options.

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CMS.gov

MAY 1, 2019

Ever since the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act’s (PPACA) main requirements were implemented in 2014, individual health insurance markets across the country have been struggling. Premiums have doubled and even tripled in some states.

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Medisys Compliance

OCTOBER 19, 2022

In the US, millions of teenagers and adults struggle with behavioral health concerns, with 1 in 5 persons (18 and older) suffering from a mental disease. Only around 45%, or 20 million, of the roughly 44 million mature Americans with mental illnesses in 2014 obtained mental health care in the previous year.

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Health Populi

APRIL 2, 2018

It’s important to note that equal numbers of Democrats and Republicans were worried about healthcare between 2014 and 2016 as the Affordable Care Act was being implemented. I covered EBRI’s poll here in Health Populi earlier this year, explaining that, “Workers dissatisfaction with U.S. Gallup interviewed 1,041 U.S.

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Kaiser Health News

MARCH 15, 2022

But the new benefit for people enrolled in Medi-Cal, the state’s Medicaid health insurance program, has been delayed twice as the state and doulas — nonmedical workers who help parents before, during, and after birth — haggle over how much they should get paid. Minnesota has been offering a doula benefit since 2014.

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The Health Law Firm

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

If you are not already preparing for the fall 2014, implementation, you should be. The mandatory implementation date is October 1, 2014. This switch applies to all Health Insurance Portability Accountability Act (HIPAA) compliant health care providers.

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HIPAA Journal

JANUARY 31, 2024

In 2014 I was involved in an accident that fractured my neck and injured my spinal cord. He wanted to work with patients who needed a certain surgical intervention and ideally had non-government health insurance. Tell the readers about any significant event in your career. Physicians can target and attract ideal patients.

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HIPAA Journal

MAY 18, 2023

The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights is the main enforcer of HIPAA compliance; however, state Attorneys General also play a role in enforcing compliance with the Rules of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA).

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HIT Consultant

JULY 16, 2024

In January 2024, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) ruled that Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs) and Rural Health Centers (RHCs) can now bill for RPM under new global coding. Since the company’s inception, they have raised over $40M.

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

New Jersey’s largest health insurer. – Founded in 2014, Pager’s unique approach to virtual care guides users through the entire healthcare journey and provides turnkey support, including nurse triage, telehealth, e-prescribing, follow-up care, and customer service, all in one platform.

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Healthcare Compliance Blog

MARCH 31, 2022

It can also include health insurance, pension plans, or educational assistance. million to New York State for conduct between 2014–2017. The other agency has agreed to pay $560,000 to the United States and $840,000 to New York State for conduct that occurred in 2014–2018. The base wage must be paid in cash.

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The Health Law Firm

MARCH 6, 2014

In an effort to do so, the agency is temporarily blocking several home health agencies (HHAs) and ground ambulance suppliers in fraud hot spots around the country from enrolling in and receiving reimbursements from Medicare, Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) programs.

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Health Populi

JUNE 1, 2018

I’ve mined Meeker’s report for several years here on Health Populi: 2017 – Digital healthcare at the inflection point, via Mary Meeker. 2015 – Musings with Mary Meeker on the digital/health nexus. 2014 – Healthcare at an inflection point: digital trends via Mary Meeker.

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HIPAA Journal

JUNE 2, 2023

An Arizona man has been sentenced to 54 months in jail for aggravated identity theft and criminal violations of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA).

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Health Populi

JUNE 27, 2021

Pre-pandemic, we saw the likes of CVS/pharmacy morph into CVS/health in 2014 with their abolishing the sale of tobacco products, rebranding and reorganizing as a vertically integrated health/care company.

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Health Populi

APRIL 16, 2018

Walmart is enhancing about 500 of 3500 stores, and health will be part of the interior redecorating. Here’s a New York Times article from 2014 discussing the company’s vision for expanding primary care. Walmart has had ambitious plans in healthcare since those $4 Rx’s were introduced.

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 14, 2024

Revolutionizing Healthcare Data Management: The HiLabs Story and Partnership with Denali Growth Partners Founded in 2014, HiLabs is dedicated to ensuring timely access to clean data for payers, providers, and patients, especially as healthcare organizations globally shift towards data-driven decision-making.

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HIPAA Journal

OCTOBER 21, 2022

A pharmaceutical sales rep has pleaded guilty to conspiring to commit healthcare fraud and wrongfully disclosing and obtaining patients’ protected health information in an elaborate healthcare fraud scheme involving criminal HIPAA violations.

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Healthcare Law Blog

MARCH 25, 2022

Various smaller health insurance issuers have challenged the risk-adjustment program under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), alleging, among other things, that its underlying methodology favors larger insurers. New Mexico Health Connections v. United States Dep’t of Health & Human Servs. ,

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HIPAA Journal

JULY 3, 2024

During the 1970s and 1980s, an increasing number of organizations in the healthcare and health insurance industries adopted Electronic Data Interchanges (EDIs) to accelerate manual healthcare processes such as eligibility checks, treatment authorizations, and remittance advices.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Since its launch in 2014, AngelEye has built a diverse portfolio of resources designed to support the current and future needs of the highly specialized NICU and PICU. She joined One Medical as part of the acquisition of Iora Health as the Vice President of Operations for Colorado and Texas.

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HIT Consultant

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Companies owned or managed by private equity firms have been obligated to pay fines exceeding $500 million since 2014 to settle at least 34 lawsuits under the False Claims Act, a federal law penalizing fraudulent billing submissions to the federal government. In most cases, private equity owners have managed to evade liability.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 27, 2022

But trust is in short supply when it comes to consumers openness to share their personal information we learn through a new study published in JAMA , Consumer Willingness to Share Personal Digital Information for Health-Related Uses. Remember that in 1996, there were no smartphones, mobile apps, or Internet clouds. .”

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Jane Sarashon

AUGUST 12, 2024

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.

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CMS.gov

AUGUST 23, 2018

But did you know that you can also enroll in an HSA-eligible High Deductible Health Plan (HDHP) in the individual health insurance market through HealthCare.gov? Coupling an HSA-eligible HDHP with a Health Savings Account is often something that employers offer to provide for their employees.

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CMS.gov

MARCH 6, 2013

Did you know that the United States spends more than $150 billion annually on health care administration, and for the average physician, two-thirds of a full time employee is needed to carry out billing and insurance related tasks? And be sure to check out the ACA website and sign up for Administrative Simplification Updates.

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