Minority Nurse

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

According to the Joint Commission (2022), 1,441 sentinel events were reported in 2022, a 19% increase from 2021. Financial Constraints and Budgetary Cuts Healthcare institutions often face financial constraints, with shrinking budgets and reduced reimbursements from insurance companies and government programs.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Health Populi’s Hot Points: Everyone of Manatt Health’s ten imperatives are spot-on in this moment as we segue from Our Covid Year of 2020 to the Covid Year of 2021. Given the emergence of the virus variants emerging all over the world, we know our pandemic lifestyles, workstyles, school-styles, et al.,

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Valant

APRIL 17, 2024

Not only is it a map for treating a client, it is necessary for compliance with insurance and governmental mandates. If you’re struggling to manage the logistics of treatment plan documentation and wondering how you’ll cope in light of practice growth, be encouraged. Automated workflows and documentation tools.

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Minority Nurse

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Nurses Service Organization (NSO) and CNA have published the new edition of the Nurse Practitioner Professional Liability Exposure Claim Report analyzing 232 closed professional liability claims against NPs, student NPs, and NPs covered through a CNA-insured healthcare business over five years (2017-2021).

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Vital Signs Documentation Diagnostics Patient Safety 98

Health Populi

APRIL 19, 2021

While self-rationing care due to cost has still been a feature of American health care economics during the COVID-19 pandemic ( documented by The Commonwealth Fund , among other research studies), HealthLine found that between February and December 2020, fewer consumers were likely to consider the cost of care before a visit to the doctor.

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Healthcare Law Insights blog

MARCH 12, 2024

5] MHPAEA requires covered individual and group health plans and issuers of health insurance (collectively “Health Plans”) to collect and evaluate data and address the material differences between access to MH/SUD benefits when compared to medical/surgical benefits. for Disease Control Prevention, Youth Risk Behavior (2011 – 2021), [link]. [3]

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Valant

JULY 29, 2024

Altered mental status, unspecified (R41.82) is a billable ICD-10 diagnostic code under HIPAA regulations from October 1, 2020, to September 30, 2021. This code is acceptable to insurers when used to describe a marked change in mental health status not attributable to other factors. Clinicians should only use the R41.82

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Diagnostics HIPAA Insurance Medication 97

ACMA Blog

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Their knowledge of insurance coverage, regulations in patient assistance, and health policy empowers healthcare providers with tools that reduce hurdles in treatment access. Reactive case management occurs when prior authorization for treatment is denied, affecting timeliness of patient treatment (Braxton, 2024)(DeMarzo & Ayoub, 2021).

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Relias

MARCH 13, 2023

The cost of healthcare in America is high, and the price for services can vary widely by region, a patient’s access to insurance, and even by insurance provider. As a result, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) public rule on price transparency requirements for hospitals came into effect on January 1, 2021.

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Hospital Documentation Billing Insurance 52

The Healthcare Blog

DECEMBER 18, 2024

If you missed it read Part 1 & Part 2 By JEFF GOLDSMITH Two major changes in health insurance ensued as the US health system entered the 21 st century- a strategic shift of health cost risk from providers to patients and the emergence of machine driven managed care. Some 60% of hospital bad debts are now from patients with insurance.

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Healthcare Law Insights blog

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

The good news for administrators is that they are permitted to submit affidavits or other documents from outside the administrative record that show that the conflict of interest played no role in the decision-making. A documented history of arbitrary claims denials by the administrator. Reliance Standard Life Insurance Co. ,

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Documentation Follow-Up Medication Insurance 52

ACMA Blog

MAY 21, 2024

Through enhanced coding and charge capture, these algorithms analyze clinical documentation to propose precise medical codes, minimizing the risk of undercoding or overcoding while ensuring comprehensive coverage of billable services. Published online April 28, 2021. Why we should not mistake accuracy of medical AI for efficiency.

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Minority Nurse

MAY 5, 2022

Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Oncology Center of Excellence “ Conversations on Cancer ” held on July 29, 2021. The authors state that culturally competent oncology care is required to improve access to health insurance/health care. There is a myth that Asian Americans don’t get cancer, but that is far from the truth.”.

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Documentation Insurance Medication 52

Relias

AUGUST 22, 2023

However, the realities may include long work hours, an organizational focus on billing and insurance reimbursement, lack of respect from colleagues and leadership, a lack of autonomy, and other common challenges. Put together, this resulted in 330,000 healthcare workers leaving their jobs in 2021 alone.

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Teamwork Documentation Billing Insurance 52

Relias

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

At our 2021 Impact Nation conference , we sat down with three experts in the field of behavioral healthcare and its intersection with racism and racial trauma. They were property to be purchased, insured, and then transferred to relatives after the death of the master. Africans were generally enslaved their entire life.

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Arkenea

DECEMBER 2, 2024

According to a report published by Chime, 83 percent of acute care organizations stated high use of patient portals by users in 2021, as compared to 74 percent in 2020. The appointment scheduler can link patient records including insurance data, treatment history, and other records. at any given time.

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Relias

AUGUST 5, 2022

After being married one year, the Baieras were excited to find out they were expecting during the summer of 2021. They were also able to take time away from their jobs, and they had good health insurance coverage. They learned it was nothing to be alarmed about and returned home relieved. And they had each other.

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Pulmonology Advisor - Practice Management

OCTOBER 13, 2023

From 2020 to 2021, the mean score decreased by 17.6%. In total, 79% of physicians take a total of 4 weeks or less of vacation annually. Shanafelt and colleagues surveyed physicians to rate their professional fulfillment on a scale from 0 to 10. 7 Currently, physicians are reporting high rates of burnout, with 62.8%

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Doximity

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

You can learn about ChenMed by visiting chenmed.com , or visit the upcoming ChenMed Physician Career Fair on November 18, 2021. I said, well, what about the people who don’t have insurance because, at the time, almost a third of my patients did not have any insurance. Dr. Novinson: Well, good morning, good afternoon, everybody.

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Unit Organization and Environment Billing Follow-Up Medication 52

Health Populi

APRIL 10, 2021

also has sustained among the highest death rates per 100,000 people due to COVID-19, based on epidemiological data from the World Health Organization’s March 28, 2021 , update. with housing prices increasing in the pandemic, many of these folks could not afford to become home-buyers in 2021 at higher price-points.

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Accepted Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

DON’T MISS Linda Abraham’s 2021 interview with Dr. Kristen Goodall: All About BU School of Medicine, a Social Justice-Minded Med School [Episode 405]. Massachusetts passed a law five years before the Affordable Care Act that said everybody has to have insurance, and we hugely expanded Medicaid. Plus, it’s all free.

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The HIPAA Journal

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

An investigation was launched and on September 6, 2024, it was confirmed that unauthorized actors had accessed its network and exfiltrated copies of documents that contained some patient information. As previously announced, suspicious activity was identified within its computer network on August 28, 2024.

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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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Hospital Patient Satisfaction Insurance Follow-Up 71

The Healthcare Blog

DECEMBER 18, 2024

If you missed it read Part 1 By JEFF GOLDSMITH The late 1990s crash of HMOs opened the door to a major consolidation of the health insurance market controlled largely by national and super-regional health plans. HIPAA markedly accelerated the use of electronic data interchange (EDI) in healthcare, to the great advantage of health insurers.

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The Healthcare Blog

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Jackson Women’s Health Organization in 2021, Dr. Albert Priddy, activist director of the Virginia State Colony for Epileptics and Feebleminded , teamed up with radical Virginia state senator Aubrey Strode to hand pick and literally make a “federal case” out of a young institutionalized teen resident named Carrie Buck. citizens per year.”

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Sterilization Documentation Medication Insurance 52

Sensible Medicine

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

in 2021, only 1,390 (3%) of gender dysphoric minors took puberty blockers and 282 (0.7%) received a mastectomy. According to a conservative estimate by Dr. Sapir, over 1,000 minors received a double mastectomy for gender dysphoria in 2021. Most patients have to wait years to receive any kind of treatment, including puberty blockers.

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