The HIMSS EHR Association this week sent a letter asking the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to extend the comment period on its Advancing Interoperability and Improving Prior Authorization Processes proposed rule by…
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By Hannah Nelson
February 28, 2023 – Two new proposed rules from The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) aim to advance health information exchange (HIE) interoperability and streamline prior authorization processes.
The proposed…
By Sara Heath February 28, 2023 – Family caregivers looking for a good hospice experience might want to consider a not-for-profit hospice provider over a for-profit provider, with new data from the…
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By Shania Kennedy
February 28, 2023 – New Jersey-based AtlantiCare is deploying pre-operative artificial intelligence (AI) assessment tools and robotic bronchoscopy techniques to support early lung cancer diagnosis and treatment.
The health system will leverage…
Welcome to our Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup. Each week, we’ll be providing a look back at the articles we posted and why they’re important to the healthcare IT community. We hope this gives…
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Medicare Advantage enrollment grew to 29.5 million people for the 2023 plan year, now representing 46% of total Medicare enrollment, according to a Tuesday report from The Chartis Group. However, enrollment is growing at…
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There’s widespread consensus that payments to Medicare Advantage Organizations (MAOs) are a mess. These programs, which care for more than 30 million of the nearly 64 million Medicare enrollees, operate on the cutting edge…
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The home is re-emerging as the preferred place for patient care. Accelerated by the pandemic, a growing number of patients view the home as a more comfortable, safe, and convenient environment in which to…
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Ashish Kachru, CEO, DataLinkThe new healthcare realm of value-based care (VBC), designed to reward healthcare providers with incentive payments for the quality of care and patient outcomes not simply the volume of services provided,…
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Editor’s note: This story is based on discussions at Abarca Forward, a conference in San Juan, Puerto Rico, hosted by Abarca Health, a pharmacy benefit manager. MedCity News’ Editor-in-Chief Arundhati Parmar and Senior Reporter Katie Adams were invited to attend and speak at the conference. All travel and related expenses for…
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