Download Slides Wasted healthcare spending due to ED overutilization continues to rise, with a 51% increase in spend from 2012-2019. Health organizations continue to pour money and resources into ED diversion initiatives, but despite best efforts, utilization is at an all-time high with nearly 1 in every 3 ED visits categorized as avoidable or…
Quality issues are still the number one reason for drug shortages, and in an effort to address this, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is debuting a quality management maturity (QMM) program intended to incentivize drugmakers to invest in quality measures. The program will be run by the FDA’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research…
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has announced two initiatives set to launch in July 2024 that could help move the needle away from fee-for-service payments. One focuses on supporting family caregivers of dementia patients to forestall their admission to a nursing home and the considerable costs that accompany that decision. Another makes it…
Download Slides HCC Version 28 is just around the corner, and if you don’t start preparing now, the consequences will be costly. Join this webinar with Credo for a conversation about what’s changing in 2024 and how you can best prepare to maximize your revenue through accurate, compliant coding. Credo CEO Carm Huntress will…
A new study out of Harvard University links vertical relationships between primary care physicians (PCPs) and health systems to “steering,” in which providers refer patients to specialists and other care providers within the system. This steering led to higher utilization and spending on patient care, researchers found. Full Article
Patient-provider communication is at the forefront of the healthcare experience. Good communication has far-reaching impacts ranging from poor patient satisfaction to a misunderstanding of treatments and low patient engagement. Full Article
Interoperability and related compliance mandates are not new, though the landscape is ever changing. Without these two key components, progress is at stake. No one wants to return to the Wild West of health data and record keeping. Fortunately, the health care industry has been hard at work to put a national standard in place…
Download Slides Provider burn out is at an all-time high and the cost of healthcare is on the rise. Value based care arrangements are inevitable. How do risk-bearing entities know if they are succeeding? Health Data Analytics Institute (HDAI), a predictive analytics company headquartered in Dedham Massachusetts, has built a suite of predictive…
The health care industry is constantly evolving, and value-based care (VBC) has emerged as a transformative force in the pursuit of better patient outcomes. While VBC is not new, technological advances in recent years have made it possible to identify risks and opportunities for individuals and entire patient populations. Technology also facilitates early interventions that…
The Covid-19 public health emergency (PHE) prompted an industry-wide shift in healthcare delivery. Most notably, virtual care technologies that were slowly gaining traction pre-pandemic skyrocketed, and now, most healthcare provider organizations offer some form of virtual care. But, with the withdrawal of the PHE declaration in May, the urgent need for deploying telehealth-enabled care services…