Healthcare Law Insights blog

JANUARY 15, 2025

From 2018-2023, OCR observed a 102% increase in breaches affecting 500 or more individuals, with 167 million affected in 2023 alone. Comments should be identified by RIN Number 0945AA22 and can be submitted by any of the following ways: Federal eRulemaking Portal. Follow the instructions at: [link] for submitting electronic comments.

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The Healthcare Blog

APRIL 2, 2024

United channeled almost $52 billion of that cash into buying health-related businesses, nearly all of which end up housed inside Optum. However, Optum Health’s profit margin declined from more than 10% in 2018 to about 6.6% It is a sprawling nationwide roll-up of healthcare assets. billion since 2019. Optum Health is a $95.3

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The HIPAA Journal

APRIL 27, 2025

OCR stepped up enforcement of compliance with the HIPAA Rules in 2016, more than doubling the number of financial penalties imposed. The following three years saw similar numbers of financial penalties; however, there was another major increase in HIPAA fines in 2020 when 19 HIPAA violation cases were settled with OCR.

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Practice Index

JUNE 20, 2024

The campaign was launched following a survey of practices undertaken in December. The LMCs’ Medical Director, Dr Elliott Singer, said: “The document covers steps practices can take to reduce the chances of patient behaviour escalating into abuse or violence. The Foundation intends to update the data quarterly.

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ACMA Blog

OCTOBER 8, 2024

The goal of PAs is to ensure patients receive the most appropriate care for their medical needs in agreement with the most up-to-date medical evidence and guidelines 1. Prior authorizations can be very time-consuming, as they require documentation and paperwork from healthcare providers to show why the patient would need the treatment.

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ACMA Blog

JUNE 25, 2024

This process can include patient demographics, charts, labs, and any clinical documentation that will aid in proving the necessity of the medication or service. This can include verifying information with the pharmacy and obtaining all required documentation from the patient’s health record, as mentioned above.

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ACMA Blog

OCTOBER 16, 2023

This process can include patient demographics, charts, labs, and any clinical documentation that will aid in proving the necessity of the medication or service. This can include verifying information with the pharmacy and obtaining all required documentation from the patient’s health record, as mentioned above.

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Valant

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Sanacora & Katz, 2018 ) supports its effectiveness for severe depression in patients where other treatments have fallen short.Another promising new medication is a pill called Auvelity that combines dextromethorphan with bupropion. Recent research (e.g.,

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Walker Info - Patient Experience

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Often overlooked, coming up with a good list of customers can be a painstaking task. Hear from one of the authors The CX Leader Podcast #Frankensurvey Released: June 12, 2018 How did we do? How do we stack up? Wrap it up. Following up on these can go a long way to enhancing a customer relationship.

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Sensible Medicine

MARCH 11, 2025

A 2014 follow-up study by de Jonge analyzed 743,070 low-risk planned home and hospital births and found no significant difference in perinatal or neonatal mortality. Similarly, a 2018 meta-analysis by Scarf et al. Finally, a smaller 2018 meta-analysis by Rossi et al. A notable example was a paper by Pang et al.

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Sensible Medicine

MARCH 27, 2024

Pages 119 through 125 do a great job of explaining how atherosclerosis develops insidiously in the coronary arteries and how you can build up substantial plaque without symptoms. The 2018 American guidelines recommend an LDL-C level <100 mg/dl for primary prevention. I keep my own apoB and LDL-C levels in the 40s. Medicine 2.0

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Sensible Medicine

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

With mammography or PSA screening, the follow-up testing for the many false positives ranges from incredibly painful to dangerous. ” Identifying an abnormally high CAC score in a middle-aged individual should be immediately followed by an in-depth discussion of its meaning with an enlightened physician.

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Accepted Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

In 2017, she was appointed Assistant Dean of Admissions at the Boston University School of Medicine and became Associate Dean in 2018. We can look up stuff. If it’s just facts, we can look them up. But I would assume that the scores on the step two should go up. We break up into teams of four or five.

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Setting Sights

AUGUST 11, 2021

But, my colleagues’ wellbeing isn’t hanging in the balance just because of the taboo that comes with opening up on their mental health struggles, or that there is little time to address it on top of the day-to-day work pressures – it’s hanging in the balance because we are simply not supported full-stop. I called for help in person.

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Health Populi

JULY 1, 2019

This data would not go to waste and patients had a forum to act on their own desires to carefully document and share their experiences for the benefit of themselves and others. Following a review by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS), the government mandated that iCarbonX divest its ownership in PLM.

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Sensible Medicine

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

If you picked up on it, you’re seeing a much bigger trend. It all started when the Supreme Court overturned the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act in 2018 , effectively legalizing sports betting across the United States by offloading their regulation to states. billion in 2017 to $121.1 million searches nationally.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

While customer satisfaction with health insurance plans slightly increased between 2018 and 2019, patient satisfaction with hospitals fell in all three settings where care is delivered — inpatient, outpatient, and the emergency room, according to the 2018-2019 ACSI Finance, Insurance and Health Care Report.

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The Healthcare Blog

MARCH 11, 2024

By MIKE MAGEE In our world where up is down, and black is white, there is a left and a right – it’s the middle we appear to be missing. Brett Kavanaugh, was nominated by Donald Trump and confirmed by the Senate on July 31, 2018. Does it exist, or was it make believe all along? Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 9, 2018

This is not the first time I’ve mashed up popular culture into a post on health care here on Health Populi. The story, The Shadow Rulers of the VA , broke the evening of 7 August 2018 in ProPublica. The column was researched and written up by reporter Isaac Arnsdorf. David Shulkin, then head of the Veterans Administration.

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Sensible Medicine

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

” Turning up the temperature in this combustible debate is counterproductive. This month, my reporting revealed that since 2018, the policy at Boston Children’s Hospital has been to provide kids a single two-hour assessment appointment.

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