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Consumer / Employer
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3 Ways to Use an Engineering Mindset to Optimize Patient Access Workflows
In a day of vast innovation, expansion, and acquisitions, an engineering mindset can bring a unique and effective approach to thinking across the system, evaluating the current and future state, standardizing on best practices, and considering upstream and downstream workflows.
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Delivering Precision Care to Manage Neurodegenerative Diseases
Precision medicine for neurodegenerative conditions has the potential to radically change the way patients are treated and managed over time. As an industry, we must continue to expand our thinking and push the boundaries of science, technology, and data analytics to capture precision medicine opportunities in broader areas of unmet medical needs.
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Payer’s Place: Dr. Anil Singh
Dr. Anil Singh shares his insights into the strategies employed by the organization to identify the most effective digital solutions for their members.
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Integrating Workers’ Comp and Medical Benefits Makes So Much Sense
The current dual-system model is inefficient, wasteful, and inconvenient. There is a clear need to integrate workers’ comp and medical benefits programs to cut down on costs and alleviate the hassle of dealing with separate care silos. It’s possible, and its time has come.
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MedCity Influencers, Consumer / Employer
How Hospitals Can Meet New Requirements for Workplace Violence Prevention
When violence in general—including gun violence—goes unchecked in any hospital setting, the physical and psychological impact can be severe, lasting and even devastating. Beyond injuries and tragic loss of life, the fallout from unchecked violence creates worker anxiety, loss of productivity and workdays, and significant legal and reputational losses.
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Report: About Half of MA Beneficiaries Leave Their Plan After 5 Years
After five years of enrolling in a Medicare Advantage plan, 48.3% of non-dually enrolled beneficiaries left their contract and 53.4% of dually enrolled beneficiaries did, a new study found.
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CMS Requires States To Assess Medicaid Disenrollment Process
Some states may not be following federal requirements for the Medicaid renewal process, resulting in many individuals being wrongly removed from coverage, CMS said. Children may especially be affected.
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Technology is Great. But Does it Really Change Health Outcomes for the Better?
We must advocate for the positive impact that technology can have on healthcare outcomes, while also building solutions to create a more equitable health system. This includes traditional, less tech-reliant methods for those unable to embrace technology.
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HHS Drops First 10 Drugs for Medicare Drug Price Negotiation
HHS released the first 10 drugs selected for the Medicare Drug Price Negotiation Program. These drugs include Eliquis, Jardiance and Xarelto. Under the program, the federal government will be able to negotiate the price for selected drugs for the first time.
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Consumer / Employer, Devices & Diagnostics, Health Tech
Healthcare Moves: A Monthly Summary of Hires and Layoffs
Here is a selection of recent executive hires, promotions and layoffs occurring across the healthcare industry.
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Enhancing Efficiency in your Practices: Unleashing the Power of Greenway Health’s Optimization Services
Resolve your healthcare information technology concerns by optimizing your technology, boosting workflows, improving staff productivity, and driving revenue.
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Team-Based Primary Care Offers a Solution for an Underachieving Healthcare System
Team-based primary care is needed now more than ever as our “on-demand” and mobile lives, complicated by a primary care shortage crisis, have led to a more transactional and fragmented healthcare experience.
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Report: Many Employers, Consumers Don’t Understand Value-based Care
Although many employers and consumers don’t understand the difference between value-based care and fee-for-service, most are in favor of value-based care after being given the definition, a new survey found.
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Bon Secours Mercy Health Sues Anthem Health Plans of Virginia for Unpaid Claims
In a new lawsuit, Bon Secours Mercy Health Virginia alleges that Anthem Health Plans of Virginia owes the health system more than $93 million in outstanding unpaid and underpaid claims.
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Are New Primary Care Sites an Opportunity for Nurses?
As nursing remains the most trusted profession and NPs have long been accepted as primary care providers, nurses and NPs are uniquely qualified to guide patients through care interactions and bring the consistency associated with primary care to new places.
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Report: MA Enrollees Use Postacute Services Less Than Traditional Medicare
A new study found that between 16.2% and 17.7% of Medicare Advantage enrollees reported using post-acute care services, compared to 22.4% to 24.1% of traditional Medicare enrollees.
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MedCity Influencers, Health Tech
5 Ways Patient Access Software Solutions Can Transform Mental Health Care
By leveraging sophisticated patient intake forms, robust patient-provider matching algorithms, self-scheduling features, calendar management tools, and telehealth capabilities, healthcare providers can bridge the gap between consumer expectations and the current state of healthcare access.