Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 24, 2020

The Alliance for Integrated Care of New York (AICNY) oversees the healthcare needs of roughly 6,200 dually eligible Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD). Many AICNY beneficiaries reside in group homes and use Federally Qualified Community Health Centers. THE PROBLEM. MARKETPLACE.

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Hall Render

JUNE 10, 2022

As skilled nursing ‘teeters,’ leaders look to DC for help on pay rule and more. CMS updates Medicaid eligibility standards. Alabama doctors launch nation’s first follow up clinic for snakebites. Report: Mesa nursing home fined $500 after negligence leads to resident’s death. LA physicians avert strike.

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Med-Net Compliance

JULY 26, 2022

Additionally, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), Center for Program Integrity (CPI), announced that it took administrative actions against 52 providers involved in similar schemes. Often, these test results or durable medical equipment were not provided to the patients or were worthless to their primary care doctors.?.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

These may be technologies used from the home or that a doctor uses to improve or support healthcare services. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) began to allow for reimbursement for videoconferencing between healthcare provider and patient.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 5, 2022

An average doctor's appointment across the U.S. is about a two-hour encounter, including travel time, check-in, waiting, seeing the clinician, paying and traveling home. It's also costly to transport elderly patients from nursing homes or assisted living facilities to clinics or hospitals and back, and then to a pharmacy.

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Bill of Health

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

And we know that our prisons, jails, and detention centers employ doctors with suspended and limited licenses as the exclusive source for health care for incarcerated people. health law and policy is the exclusion of people in custody in prisons, jails, and detention centers from Medicaid. These voluntary standards, within the U.S.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 19, 2024

Laura Ferrara, Chief Strategy Officer at Intus Care The focus on healthcare delivered in the comfort of one’s home has surged in recent times, particularly in light of the pandemic. If an anomaly was discovered or an alert sent to the physician, the patient would need to go to the doctor’s office to address the alert.

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 6, 2021

It doesn’t even take you to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) website. Add to this the fact that patients with multiple chronic illnesses see multiple doctors – all creating care plans and prescribing medications to address their specialized areas. Try Googling the word “caregiving.”

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YouCompli

JANUARY 4, 2022

Unger, Chief of Medicaid Fraud Division, Office of the Massachusetts Attorney General; and Patrick Callahan, Healthcare Fraud Unit, US Attorney’s Office. When people defraud the system they don’t just defraud Medicaid, they also get Medicare and private insurance. Featured speakers: Toby R. Read a summary. Unger agreed.

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Hall Render

MAY 20, 2022

HHS Announces $15M in Funding For Behavioral Healthcare In Nursing Homes. State Actions to Address Nursing Home Staffing During COVID-19. California aims to tighten licensing of nursing homes after pandemic exposes deadly lapses. Shortage of in-home healthcare workers sparks creative solution.

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Hall Render

MAY 13, 2022

Doctor & Nurse Prevail at Trial Over Death of Patient Discharged From GA Emergency Department. Nursing Home Operator Leaving 8 Locations. COVID outbreaks strike 8 nursing homes as cases rise across Maine. Massachusetts to receive $250,000 from 5 nursing homes over patient neglect, inadequate care claims.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 16, 2020

” "Nearly overnight, as volumes dropped precipitously, the deadly pandemic thrust patients, doctors, pharmaceutical companies and payers headfirst onto virtual platforms and other digital technologies." For example, nursing homes were hit hard by the virus.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 6, 2020

A provider present with the patient at one location – a nursing home, community clinic, etc. Employers and payers may offer telehealth options that allow the team member to meet with their doctor via video. The system can be used to conduct telehealth visits between two or more clinics. iRhythm Technologies.

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Hall Render

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

Doctors: Pediatric COVID cases appear to be trending down. Aspen University investigation: Students vent frustration amid nursing board probe into private college. ‘I feel extorted:’ Former FMC nurses told to pay $5K after being fired for refusing vaccine. Nursing home staffing changes backed.

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Hall Render

MARCH 18, 2022

Former CMS Chief Seema Verma Blasts Nursing Home Reform Proposals. How the PE Nursing Home Crackdown Could Affect the Home Health Industry. New Bill Aims to Extend Acute Hospital Care at Home Waiver. Nursing home lobbyists request sit-down with Biden about reforms. CONNECTICUT.

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Hall Render

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

40% of Nursing Home Residents Haven’t Received COVID-19 Boosters, Analysis Finds. No COVID-19 boosters for 70% of nursing home staffs, AARP says. Contract Nurse Agencies Are Making Big Money in the Age of COVID-19. Nursing homes dealing with price gouging from staffing agencies. CALIFORNIA.

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Hall Render

APRIL 29, 2022

About 20K nursing home staff now have vaccine medical exemptions. More than 400 nursing home closures projected for 2022: report. Family nurse practitioners. Alabama Medicaid enrollment increases as pandemic requirement continues. Strikes averted at four Connecticut nursing homes but not in Windsor.

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Hall Render

OCTOBER 25, 2024

in 2023 100M hit by Change Healthcare breach AHA pushes for hospital-at-home changes Amazon One Medical, Cleveland Clinic partner on primary care Big systems looking ‘outside of the four walls of the hospital’ Calm Health, UnitedHealthcare form partnership: 3 notes Cigna-Humana merger talks are back on: report Doctors hate MIPS.

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Hall Render

MAY 10, 2024

Million CALIFORNIA California hospital dismisses CEO California physician pleads guilty to $2.5M million expansion ‘Very, very unusual.’ Million CALIFORNIA California hospital dismisses CEO California physician pleads guilty to $2.5M million expansion ‘Very, very unusual.’ million expansion ‘Very, very unusual.’

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Hall Render

MARCH 25, 2022

Hospital stays for nursing home residents down nearly 9%, federal data shows. Most doctors have patients affected by social drivers but feel ill-equipped to address them, survey finds. Alabama lawmaker’s push to extend postpartum Medicaid coverage. $12 Huntsville Hospital to launch new nurse training program.

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Hall Render

APRIL 22, 2022

GAO investigating private equity ownership of nursing homes. Supreme Court tosses Medicaid work requirement cases. This nursing home chain reported the highest COVID death rate. San Francisco’s Laguna Honda Hospital Loses Medicaid, Medicare Funding. Nursing Home Will Settle COVID-19 Death Suit.

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Hall Render

JUNE 21, 2024

Homer hospital bond ARIZONA After 24 years as CEO of Banner, Peter Fine pinpoints the most important traits for leaders Banner’s momentum blueprint Doctors speak out as U.S. Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly considers $38.5M Would a state law jeopardize them?

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Hall Render

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

NATIONAL 80 hospitals sue HHS over Medicare Advantage Days payment rule AHA op-ed in Medical Economics sets the record straight on 340B program growth and the role of drug companies As hospitals close obstetric units, maternity care deserts become more common At Catholic hospitals, a mission of charity runs up against high care costs for patients Bill (..)

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Hall Render

DECEMBER 22, 2023

governor pushes new Medicaid expansion proposal with work requirement Missouri state senator wants voters to have say in KU Health System, Liberty Hospital merger Kansas ACLU request to halt excessive wait times at Larned turned down by judge ‘Who cares about us? health care spending hits $4.5 health care spending hits $4.5

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Hall Render

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

CT’s Medicaid reimbursement rates lower than peer states: report Better safety training, reporting, escorts for CT home health care workers focus of new legislation D.C. Mary’s unveils new name, but mission remains unchanged UCHealth sues thousands of patients every year. What they say sets them apart.

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JULY 26, 2024

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JULY 26, 2024

celebrated by KidsABC for reaching key milestones Emory University and Emory St. celebrated by KidsABC for reaching key milestones Emory University and Emory St.

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Hall Render

MARCH 31, 2023

s Socially Determined aims to address potential gaps in Medicaid enrollment Lawsuits Mount Against DC Health Link Over Breach of Congress Members’ Data DC COVID-19 centers closing Friday Mayor Bowser Canceling $90 Million in Medical Debt for up to 90,000 DC Residents DELAWARE ChristianaCare CEO Dr.

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Hall Render

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

House report attacks, nursing homes fight back over allegations of deficient staffing, care and safe practices as pandemic hit. The Top Doctors Making a Difference in Delaware in 2022. A federal judge schedules a hearing on Florida’s Medicaid transgender rule. How Georgia is tackling its nursing shortage.

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Hall Render

JUNE 3, 2022

Doctors, nurses risked their lives to battle COVID. Doctors in Arizona are trying to rewrite the surprise billing law to boost their own pay. AZDHS not protecting nursing home residents by reviewing complaints. Valley doctor, pharmacy, volunteer among 2022 ‘Health Heroes’ ILLINOIS.

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Hall Render

JUNE 7, 2024

Owners say it’s getting harder to stay open BCBS of Louisiana plans further Epic expansion Is Louisiana’s abortion ban costing the state future doctors? list includes 3 from Arizona ARKANSAS Children’s Miracle Network Raises $5.4M acres in Roseville for future primary care center U.S. health care is in a crisis. New data shed light.

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Hall Render

DECEMBER 1, 2023

1 Mass General Brigham to build AI products with Australian health tech company Mass General Brigham hospital workers to receive average 21% raises Mass General Brigham to integrate triage AI across system Mass General Brigham sued over infection control lapse Nurse practitioner pleads guilty to $7.8M

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Hall Render

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

ALABAMA American Family Care opens new health care center in Northeast Birmingham doctors secure $13.9M ALABAMA American Family Care opens new health care center in Northeast Birmingham doctors secure $13.9M Newsom announces distressed hospital loan program Kaiser Permanente frontline workers strike could begin Oct.

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Hall Render

OCTOBER 6, 2023

government grant for maternal health care Alabama slides to 50th on nursing home and long-term care report card Ascension sells Alabama hospital Ascension St.

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Hall Render

OCTOBER 6, 2023

government grant for maternal health care Alabama slides to 50th on nursing home and long-term care report card Ascension sells Alabama hospital Ascension St.

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Hall Render

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

What’s next when they want to retire? in repairs Sutter Health faces possible $519M payout in alleged double billing case COLORADO Denver Health sued by sons after father’s jail death How a Kaiser Permanente worker strike could affect Colorado patients Kaiser names regional president Medical Office Building in Littleton Sells for $6.1M

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Hall Render

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Vincent Partners With Park Plaza Mall on Community Health Programs Former Arkansas Medical Board Chair Brian Hyatt Arrested for Medicaid Fraud New Provider in Arkansas Focuses on No-Rush Health Care Walker Foundation Pledges $1M to UAMS Radiation Oncology Center Five nonprofits to split $5.9 health care startup Ounce raises $5.2M

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