Health Prime

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Running a successful medical practice requires more than providing excellent patient care. Reports are a great data-driven means of benchmarking the performance of specific processes or functions within your medical practice. Five essential reports every medical practice should run 1. At Health Prime, we can help!

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Health Populi

APRIL 2, 2025

ixlayer and Ipsos identified four key challenges addressing the UX/CX patient-centered views on dealing with biopharma for personal medical management; these covered, Communication Convenience Care support, and, Access barriers. households earning over $180,000 a year are now worried about medical bills in America.

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The HIPAA Journal

MARCH 28, 2025

On March 20, 2025, Pineland Community Service Board disclosed a security incident detected on January 20, 2025. The forensic investigation confirmed unauthorized network access between November 24, 2024, and January 20, 2025, during which time the threat actor viewed or copied information from its network.

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Health Prime

AUGUST 15, 2024

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released the ICD-10-CM code set update for fiscal year (FY) 2025. These changes will impact medical billing, coding practices, and healthcare administration.

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The HIPAA Journal

APRIL 1, 2025

All claims must be submitted by or be postmarked by June 30, 2025. The settlement has received preliminary approval from the court, and the final approval hearing has been scheduled for June 16, 2025. The deadline for objection to and exclusion from the settlement has passed. The post Azura Vascular Care Agrees to $3.15

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Health Populi

JUNE 11, 2024

between 2023 and 2024, according to the 2024 Milliman Medical Index. Milliman also calculated that the largest driver of cost increase in health care, accounting for nearly one-half of medical cost increases, was pharmacy, the cost of prescription drugs, which grew 13% in the year.

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Health Populi

MARCH 3, 2025

As HIMSS 2025, the largest annual conference on health information and innovation meets up in Las Vegas this week, we can peek into what’s on the organization’s CEO’s mind leading up to the meeting in this conversation between Hal Wolf, CEO of HIMSS, and Gil Bashe, Managing Director of FINN Partners. Drive population health.

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Insurance Billing Medication Hospital 71

The HIPAA Journal

MARCH 25, 2025

Data security incidents have been announced by Columbia Eye Clinic in Colorado, Meigs County Emergency Medical Services in Ohio, Cottrills Specialty Pharmacy in New York, and ALN Medical Management in Colorado. On January 21, 2025, Meigs EMS identified unauthorized access to an employee email account.

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Health Prime

JANUARY 15, 2025

Revenue cycle management (RCM) challenges are constant in the healthcare industry, and 2025 will be no exception. At Health Prime , our billing experts compiled a list of the top four RCM challenges healthcare businesses face in 2025 and some strategies for addressing some strategies to address them effectively.

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Health Prime

JANUARY 15, 2025

Revenue cycle management (RCM) challenges are constant in the healthcare industry, and 2025 will be no exception. At Health Prime , our billing experts compiled a list of the top four RCM challenges healthcare businesses face in 2025 and some strategies for addressing some strategies to address them effectively.

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Billing Patient Experience Hospital Medication 52

Health Populi

MARCH 20, 2025

First, I asked Harm about the origin story for Unvendor : I note that Harm has worn many professional hats in health care in his career, including those of a physician, a chief medical information officer, a healthcare informaticist, and a software developer. With this background, how did the idea for authoring the book gel?

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ACI Medical & Dental School

MARCH 27, 2024

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Note that patients falling into all four of these segments believe, in the words of Lavidge, that, “companies developing health care technology care more about making money than helping patients…All patients worry that a single medical bill could severely impact their financial security.”

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Valant

DECEMBER 13, 2024

Department of Health and Human Services has released new ICD-10-CM codes for the 2025 fiscal year, including important updates for categories F01F99: Mental, Behavioral, and Neurodevelopmental Disorders. 2025 ICD 10 CM Code Updates Announcement Update The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, a part of the U.S.

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Health Prime

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Running a successful medical practice requires more than providing excellent patient care. Reports are a great data-driven means of benchmarking the performance of specific processes or functions within your medical practice. Five essential reports every medical practice should run 1. At Health Prime, we can help!

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Medication Billing Documentation Appointments 52

Health Populi

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Another way to reduce costs of administration in health care operations is to move from paper to electronic formats — long overdue in the eyes of patients who are increasingly dealing with medical bill paying as payers for out-of-pocket expenses. Banks experience. The chart here illustrates U.S. AI can help here, too.

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Healthcare Law Insights blog

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Last fall, private equity and hedge fund investors were given a reprieve from the prospect of increased oversight of healthcare transactions when California Governor Gavin Newsom unexpectedly vetoed Assembly Bill 3129 (AB 3129). Rather it creates a basis for enforcement based on conduct which occurs after the bill becomes law.

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The HIPAA Journal

MARCH 20, 2025

These statistics and graphs were last updated on March 21, 2025, and are based on data obtained from OCR on March 19, 2025. CA Healthcare Provider 2,364,359 Hacking/IT Incident 57 2024 Medical Management Resource Group, L.L.C. This page is regularly updated to reflect the latest healthcare data breach statistics.

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Health Populi

MARCH 21, 2019

It feels like the vision industry is at an inflection point at this moment, I intuited during yesterday’s convening of Decoding the Consumer: The new science of customer behavior, the theme of the 13th annual global leadership summit hosted by Vision Monday, a program of Jobson Medical Information which is part of the WebMD family.

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Healthcare Law Insights blog

JANUARY 9, 2025

On January 8, 2025, a federal grand jury in Virginia returned an indictment against a hospital. This rare criminal event in healthcare alleges that Chesapeake Regional Medical Center conspired to defraud the United States and committed healthcare fraud. The hospital was not charged until January 2025.

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Relias

OCTOBER 28, 2022

The HHCAHPS Survey will determine 30% of an agency’s total performance score, and that score will in turn determine the agency’s payment adjustment for 2025. Documentation in the medical record. At a minimum, each patient’s medical record should reflect care team coordination at the following time points: Start of care.

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Valant

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

With the new regulations set to take effect January 1, 2025, many behavioral health practices will need to prepare for changes that could impact their reimbursement procedures, service delivery, and regulatory compliance. Most provisions of the rule will take effect on January 1, 2025, with some to be phased in by 2026.

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The HIPAA Journal

MARCH 13, 2025

It is common for medical records to be overlaid, where multiple patients records are merged into a single record. 2024, Black Book Research found that repeated medical care due to duplicate health records costs an average of $1,950 per patient (inpatient stay) and over $1,750 per ED visit. This is far from an isolated example.

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HIPAA Patient Safety Billing Insurance 53

Health Populi

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Complementing the Commonwealth Fund and CFPB data (discussed below) is another report out this week from Glassdoor addressing Worklife Trends 2025 published this week. consumers who had difficulty in making ends meet in home budgets, paying medical expenses were a challenge for 41% of people.

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Health Populi

MARCH 6, 2025

I’ll review these studies in this post, and discuss several potential impacts we should keep in mind for peoples’ health and care in 2025 and beyond. Start with the Ipsos Consumer Tracker for February 2025, which identified a rise in U.S. consumers feel most costs of living are up in the first quarter of 2025.

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Billing Medication Long Term Care Insurance 126

Health Populi

JANUARY 27, 2025

In researching several.gov websites from last Monday 20th January 2025, I had an ongoing frustrating user experience in being faced with 404 Error messages like this one from WhiteHouse.gov. The bar chart here presents the data from McKinsey’s 2024 survey to give you a sense of where health consumers value ad-based medical content.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 20, 2024

I generated four scenarios on health care consumers in 2030; the four alternative futures looked like this: As we enter 2025, my view for the next 1-3 years is that people in America feel like they live in the lower left matrix: where fragmentation meets bureaucracy, as health care castaways. Why The Rough Guide reference?

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Both Republicans and Democrats and congresses have strongly supported Ryan’s bill. The post How World AIDS Day 2024 Can Inform Healthcare in 2025 appeared first on HealthPopuli.com. Here is what Jeanne said yesterday at the event: “In many ways, personal grief has fueled the AIDS movement since the beginning.

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Billing Medication 62

Health Populi

APRIL 7, 2025

adults 18 and older between February 28 and March 4, 2025, so it was completed a month before the tariffs came to hit peoples’ 401(k) savings and employers’ company stock market caps. We’ve seen this in other studies that focus on medical bills and healthcare spending as a negative influence on seeking health care.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 31, 2025

How will we know if the life sciences sector is advancing in 2025? This is the question asked at the start of the report, a Research Brief: 2025 Indicators of Progress for the Life Sciences Sector, from the IQVIA Institute for Human Data Science (IQVIA). Kennedy, Jr., at the concluding minutes of the HELP meeting on 30th January.

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The Healthcare Blog

JANUARY 4, 2025

By MICHAEL MILLENSON January In a blistering commentary, the American Medical Associations flagship journal, JAMA , condemns the corrosive effect on patient care of the profit-seeking practices of health insurers. The editor of JAMA resigns after ChatGPT writes an editorial extolling the merits of MA plans run by for-profit companies.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 28, 2025

The Kaiser Family Foundation has hit the 2025 health policy ground running in publishing the January 2025 Health Tracking Poll last week and a poll on health care trust and mis-information yesterday. As of the second week of January 2025, the top priorities for health care among U.S.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

elections, on probably policy and market impacts that we can expect in 2025 and beyond. At the same time, one-half of people would likely take an additional medication were it covered by insurance. For health care, there are many uncertainties as we reflect, one week after the 2024 U.S.

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