By Anuja Vaidya
May 18, 2023 – In a Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) document, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) stated that hospitals could continue to bill for various outpatient therapies delivered via remote…
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There are new cybersecurity tools for protecting patient safety that every healthcare organization should know about. In this video, two leaders in the field discuss two recent initiatives: The Healthcare Cybersecurity Benchmarking Study, co-led…
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What You Should Know:New and more stringent regulations have increased documentation burden for long-term care (LTC) provider organizations, and this combined with other factors (COVID-19, staff turnover, increased LTC demand) has intensified clinician and…
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MITRE has released a comprehensive report addressing healthcare cybersecurity and patient safety. The report focuses on improving national cybersecurity, modernizing regulations, developing the healthcare cybersecurity workforce, enhancing the cybersecurity capabilities of healthcare organizations, emergency…
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For the 54th episode of the CIO podcast hosted by Healthcare IT Today, we are joined by Natalie Pageler, MD, CMIO at Stanford Medicine Children’s Health to talk about patient information privacy! To kick…
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There has been an incredible rise in technological advancements in the world of healthcare recently due to our sudden need for everything to be digital when COVID hit. While the cases of COVID have…
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Hospital medical claims denial management is preventing, identifying, and appealing denied insurance claims to ensure accurate and timely reimbursement. It is essential for maintaining a healthy revenue stream and avoiding financial losses. This blog…
The following is a guest article by Erin Rutzler, Vice President of Fraud, Waste, and Abuse at Cotiviti
In Delaware, more than 250 Medicare patients underwent unnecessary genetic testing based on telehealth consultations that often…
By Sarai Rodriguez
April 28, 2023 – Although buprenorphine prescribing regulations were relaxed to increase opioid treatment access, medication rates remained unchanged between 2016 and 2022; researchers suggested that additional barriers beyond buprenorphine availability may…
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The agency recently posted new recommendations for AI developers who want to update their software as a medical device (SAMD). The document offers what we hope will be a less burdensome way to manage…
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