The Healthcare Blog

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Following the surge, investment plummeted. What were left with entering into 2025 are a smorgasbord of solutions clamoring to attach themselves to traditional enterprise incumbents (Health Insurance Providers, Electronic Health Records, Hospital Systems). Those regions are ripe for follow-on expansion and digital scale.

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Insurance Follow-Up Collaboration Patient Support 67

Health Populi

JUNE 11, 2024

This year, I opted for a 2025 Subaru Forester and a year’s tuition for a New Mexico resident living off-campus for 2023-24 attending University of New Mexico. These numbers are for one “average” person covered by an employer via PPO.

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Medication Follow-Up Billing Insurance 77

Practice Index

JANUARY 9, 2025

Catch up with the last month of 2024 for anything you might have missed! While supporting practices to set up Holiday Manager, weve heard some questions that pop up again and again, so if youre thinking about starting 2025 with a better way of managing your leave, read on!

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Follow-Up Insurance Documentation Communication 59

CollaborateMD

APRIL 3, 2025

” With all of these concerns, it’s vital that providers and billing departments understand and follow the key elements of proper medical billing compliance to run a successful practice. Following health insurance policies and procedures. For example, this April 2025, CMS announces 50 new ICD-10-PCS codes (PDF).

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Billing Medication HIPAA Follow-Up 52

Health Prime

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Were shifting our focus to the reports you should run regularly in 2025 to keep a pulse on your practices ongoing performance. It categorizes unpaid patient invoices and insurance claims by age, typically in 30-day increments. In one of our past blogs, we delved into the end-of-year reports you should run in your practice.

Medication 52

Medication Billing Documentation Appointments 52

The HIPAA Journal

APRIL 4, 2025

Mercer County Joint Township Community Hospital in Coldwater, Ohio, has suffered a significant data breach involving the electronic protected health information of up to 88,541 individuals. Notification letters were mailed to the affected individuals on February 21, 2025.

Hospital 69

Hospital Follow-Up HIPAA Insurance 69

Arkenea

APRIL 10, 2025

This approach can free up internal resources, reduce time to market, and provide access to niche skills, especially in emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence, blockchain, and the Internet of Things. Scalability Outsourced teams can flex up or down based on project phases.

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Tests Communication Documentation Follow-Up 52

The HIPAA Journal

MARCH 18, 2025

subsidiary that provides life insurance and retirement software and services. A third-party eDiscovery vendor was engaged to review the exposed and stolen data and confirmed that up to 6.5 As is now common following data breaches, multiple class action lawsuits were filed in response to the data breach.

HIPAA 82

HIPAA Follow-Up Insurance Medication 82

Health Populi

OCTOBER 17, 2023

” And across all technologies assessed in this study, it was AI and machine learning that the health care finance execs pointed to as a top-three investment priority, followed by improving the patient experience (among 37%), and automating business processes (32%). “It is not hard to see why AI is on their agenda,” U.S.

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Billing Patient Experience Follow-Up Insurance 83

Healthcare Law Insights blog

JANUARY 15, 2025

One 2024 cyberattack on a healthcare payment cycle management company caused severe disruption throughout the healthcare industry and is estimated to have resulted in the compromise of the ePHI of up to one third of the U.S. Deadlines and Key Dates Comments are due on or before March 7, 2025. On December 27, 2024, the U.S.

HIPAA 52

HIPAA Business Associate Follow-Up Documentation 52

Relias

JUNE 19, 2023

The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) predicts that, by 2025, the U.S. One great way of achieving this goal is to set up one-on-one meetings with supervisors to discuss positive client outcomes. This disparity is part of a larger problem.

Communication 97

Communication Follow-Up Insurance 97

Health Prime

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Were shifting our focus to the reports you should run regularly in 2025 to keep a pulse on your practices ongoing performance. It categorizes unpaid patient invoices and insurance claims by age, typically in 30-day increments. In one of our past blogs, we delved into the end-of-year reports you should run in your practice.

Medication 52

Medication Billing Documentation Appointments 52

Relias

JUNE 28, 2023

This means considering things like: Referring working patients to clinics that offer extended hours Referring Medicaid patients to well-known psychiatric units that work well with their insurance And more Building rapport and understanding the patient more fully can help PCPs direct patients to the appropriate resource and encourage follow-ups.

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Follow-Up Appointments Collaboration Medication 52

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. Dominion National Insurance Company, and Dominion Dental Services USA, Inc. Penalties range from $100 per HIPAA violation up to a maximum of $25,000 per violation category, per year.

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Business Associate HIPAA Unit Organization and Environment Hospital 111

Arkenea

JANUARY 25, 2025

The cost depends on the team, features, functionalities, and the time required to wrap up the development process. Another standard published by CMS is the delayed compliance deadline for EPCS to no longer than January 2023 and no earlier than January 2025 for LTC prescriptions for controlled substances.

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Transfers HIPAA Medical History Follow-Up 52

Relias

JUNE 19, 2023

The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) predicts that, by 2025, the U.S. One great way of achieving this goal is to set up one-on-one meetings with supervisors to discuss positive client outcomes. This disparity is part of a larger problem.

Communication 52

Communication Follow-Up Insurance 52

Sensible Medicine

JULY 30, 2024

Commentary The authors conclude that “protocol-directed active surveillance offers a clear set of expectations for patients and clinicians to follow.” This cohort was primarily made up of insured, educated, and non-Hispanic white patients. For this reason, we question whether the author's conclusion is warranted.

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Follow-Up Tests Medication Insurance 255

Health Populi

JULY 18, 2024

Motor vehicle insurance costs grew a whopping 19.5% Following the BLS report on the CPI for June 2024, PwC published their new annual report from PwC titled Behind the Numbers 2025 tells us that commercial health care spending is expected to grow some 8.0% and 3.2%, respectively. in the report, FYI). for Group plans and 7.5%

Hospital 71

Hospital Insurance Follow-Up Medication 71

The Healthcare Blog

JULY 14, 2024

Nonetheless between mid 2021 and early 2022 Jess DaMassa and I were reporting on VC funding in a show called Health in 2 Point 00 (later Health Tech Deals) and every week there were several deals for $100m and up going into new health tech companies. This round was a $50m top-up but it has raised nearly $400m. It kept going down.

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Huddles/Rounds Follow-Up Insurance Diagnostics 122

The HIPAA Journal

MARCH 20, 2025

Biggest Healthcare Data Breaches in February 2025 In February, 16 data breaches were reported to OCR that affected 10,000 or more individuals 11 hacking/IT incidents, 3 unauthorized access/disclosure incidents, and 2 theft incidents. The former employee was arrested over the theft and card misuse and is facing criminal charges.

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Business Associate HIPAA Insurance Follow-Up 115

Practice Index

JANUARY 23, 2025

Following the announcement of a rise in National Living Wage and National Insurance, you asked for an easy way to assess the cost to your practice and so we created the Salary Calculator! The post The HUB offers even more reasons to sign up! Sarah, Practice Manager in Banchory. The HUB development team. Book a Daily Demo here!

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Follow-Up Insurance 98

Health Populi

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

elections, Jennifer’s assertion sums up what, ex post facto , we know about what most inspired American voters at the polls in November 2024: the economy, economics, inflation, the costs of daily living… pick your noun, but it’s all about those Benjamins right now for mainstream American consumers across many demographic cuts.

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Insurance Follow-Up Billing Huddles/Rounds 62

Health Populi

OCTOBER 14, 2024

In 2024 the average annual health insurance premium for family coverage is $25,572, split by 75% covered by the employer (just over $19,000) and 25% borne by the employee ($6,296), shown in the first chart from the report. companies, bottom-lining the following, assessing that long-standing bond between U.S.

Insurance 62

Insurance Follow-Up 62

Practice Index

APRIL 17, 2025

The practice, which employed ten members of staff, including one GP, closed suddenly in July last year following the initial bankruptcy order. These include core funding, indemnity and funding to cover the increase in National Insurance costs. She now faces restrictions on her financial activities for seven years.

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Huddles/Rounds Outpatient Care Follow-Up Admissions 52

Sensible Medicine

MARCH 15, 2025

JMM Like many in February 2021, I had listened for months to public health authorities and followed the recommendations to “flatten the curve” of Covid-19. But the following May, the ITP returned. On October 12, 2022, I woke up severely weak and exhausted, and with a terrible headache and back pain.

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Follow-Up Hospital Discharges Tests 322

The Healthcare Blog

AUGUST 23, 2024

Most likely that goes to 50-50 as the Republicans will definitely pick up Joe Manchin’s seat in West Virginia. The good news is that Manchin (WV) and Sinema (AZ) will soon both be gone, so the Dems that will be there won’t be as difficult to persuade to follow a Presidential agenda. Right now they have a 51-49 edge in the Senate.

Follow-Up 122

Follow-Up Hospital Scheduling Insurance 122

The HIPAA Journal

MARCH 13, 2025

If all records are tied to a single identifier, an individuals entire health history could be compromised, and a unique patient identifier could facilitate tracking, leading to discrimination against individuals for work, insurance, credit, and opportunities, with that discrimination potentially lasting an entire lifetime.

HIPAA 61

HIPAA Patient Safety Billing Insurance 61

Health Populi

DECEMBER 20, 2024

So with the intention of measuring twice and cutting once, Ill set up our context sharing scenario planning work I did collaborating with AHIP earlier this year. Thus, I turn to the Rough Guide as a lens on this 2025 TrendCast. Here, we are in the mode of listening to the data-tea-leaves for the next year of uncertainty.

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Insurance Follow-Up Medication Hospital 118

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. Sears currently has about a dozen stores.

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Follow-Up Insurance Hospital Medication 70

The Healthcare Blog

AUGUST 5, 2024

Trump is committed to reauthorizing the individual tax cuts from his 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act which are scheduled to expire in 2025, which would add $3.3 Medicare plus Medicaid) population), as well as cost sharing and an voucher option to purchase private insurance (!?) trillion to the deficit over the next ten years.

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Hospital Insurance Follow-Up Scheduling 113