Change Healthcare Faces Lawsuit For Failing To Protect Customer Data
Forbes Healthcare
DECEMBER 18, 2024
Nebraska AG sues Change Healthcare, UnitedHealth Group, Optum over alleged security failures leading to the largest data breach in U.S. history.
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What to Expect When Taking an Online Class with We Care Online
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DECEMBER 18, 2024
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Dengue Infections Soar Globally While Prevention And Treatment Options Fade
Forbes Healthcare
DECEMBER 18, 2024
The dengue problem is worsening and there are fewer prevention and treatment options.
The Importance of a “Whole-Person” Approach in Addressing the Opioid Crisis
Intercoast
DECEMBER 18, 2024
The opioid crisis remains a pressing public health challenge, affecting individuals and communities across the nation. The United States is now focusing on addressing the opioid crisis through a “whole-person” approach. This method considers an individual’s physical and mental health needs alongside their social support, potentially leading to more successful treatment and recovery outcomes.
Jamie Foxx Credits Daughter’s Guitar Playing For Saving Him. A Neurologist Explains How
Forbes Healthcare
DECEMBER 18, 2024
He also highlighted the profound impact of music on his recovery, particularly his daughter's guitar playing, which he described as his spiritual defibrillator.
Stopgap funding bill includes sweeping PBM reform, preserves telehealth flexibilities
Healthcare Dive - Practice Management
DECEMBER 18, 2024
Lawmakers Tuesday night released the full text of a bipartisan agreement to fund the government through March. It could also reshape the pharmacy supply chain by reforming how controversial drug middlemen do business.
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5 reports that you can run to monitor your medical practice
Health Prime
DECEMBER 18, 2024
Running a successful medical practice requires more than providing excellent patient care. It demands careful monitoring and analysis of various aspects of your operations. Reports are a great data-driven means of benchmarking the performance of specific processes or functions within your medical practice. In one of our past blogs, we delved into the end-of-year reports you should run in your practice.
How PBM Reform Could Help Walgreens And Other Retail Pharmacies
Forbes Healthcare
DECEMBER 18, 2024
Legislation in Congress to regulate pharmacy benefit managers is good news for Walgreens, Walmart, Rite Aid and thousands of independent drugstores.
Sara Ratner, Nomi Health
The Healthcare Blog
DECEMBER 18, 2024
Sara Ratner is President of integrated Programs at Nomi Health. They work with employers and health plans to connect them to a network of providers (both telehealth and physical) who accept steep discounts in return for immediate payment. The employees in turn get no co-pay/no coinsurance. In addition they have an analytics company called Artemis which recommends care paths and a PBM to lower drug prices.
Future-Proof Your Career in Medicine
Serenity Nurse Aide Academy
DECEMBER 18, 2024
Aspiring healthcare professionals have a variety of specialties to consider as they start their careers. With medical training programs in Charlotte, North Carolina , trainees can explore paths that match their skills and interests while filling essential roles in patient care. Here are a few of the most in-demand specialties in healthcare today. Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) roles are particularly valuable, with growing demand in hospitals, clinics, and long-term care facilities.
Top Customer Service Tips for Medical Administrative Assistants
Northwest Career College
DECEMBER 18, 2024
Working as a medical administrative assistant means youre the first person patients see when they walk into a doctors office or clinic. That makes your role super important! Not only do you help organize appointments and handle paperwork, but youre also responsible for ensuring patients feel welcome and comfortable. Providing good customer service is critical to doing your job well.
Steward Health Care to close Sharon Regional Medical Center in January
Healthcare Dive - Practice Management
DECEMBER 18, 2024
The bankrupt health system had sought a buyer for the facility for months without success, according to court documents.
Email Subscription Service Ending for Connect Care Clinician Blogs
Connect Care Bytes Blog
DECEMBER 18, 2024
Effective end of this month (December 31, 2024), we will be discontinuing our current email subscription service for all our Connect Care clinician blog channels. At this time, we do not have an alternate email subscription service available, but will continue to look for an appropriate service that meets our readers' needs. In the meantime, the blog channels do each support subscribing to their RSS (Really Simple Syndication) feed, for those who use newsfeed readers - see the tip sheet for more
5 reports that you can run to monitor your medical practice
Health Prime
DECEMBER 18, 2024
Running a successful medical practice requires more than providing excellent patient care. It demands careful monitoring and analysis of various aspects of your operations. Reports are a great data-driven means of benchmarking the performance of specific processes or functions within your medical practice. In one of our past blogs, we delved into the end-of-year reports you should run in your practice.
Opting out of Medicare
Medical Economics
DECEMBER 18, 2024
How to stop accepting Medicare in your practice.
Messy moments: Handling hostility
Physicians Practice
DECEMBER 18, 2024
Handling hostility, so those difficult ones (and everyone else) wants to work with you.
U.S. health care spending hits $4.9 trillion in 2023
Medical Economics
DECEMBER 18, 2024
CMS Office of the Actuary publishes annual price tag; physicians got $978 billion of it.
Whooping Cough Is Up 600% — What Are The Deadly Disease’s Symptoms?
Forbes Healthcare
DECEMBER 18, 2024
Whooping cough can cause symptoms including severe bouts of coughing. But babies, who are most vulnerable to the disease, may not cough at all.
U.S. health care spending in 2023 – a slideshow
Medical Economics
DECEMBER 18, 2024
Health care costs money. Heres how much the nation spent last year.
InnovationRx: A Bird Flu Emergency
Forbes Healthcare
DECEMBER 18, 2024
Plus: Next generation IVF, another successful pig-kidney transplant, worm secretions to treat inflammation, a new skin cancer treatment and more.
Fed cuts interest rate by a quarter point
Medical Economics
DECEMBER 18, 2024
Central bank indicates only two possible cuts in 2025
Wishing You A Magical and Peaceful Holiday Season
Medical Terminology Blog
DECEMBER 18, 2024
I taught my first medical terminology course at Maricopa Technical College in Phoenix, Arizona, in 1970. At that time, I never imagined that I would still write about medical terms 54 years later. I am grateful to the over 1,700 of you who follow my blog and appreciate the importance of learning and using the language of medicine. Wishing you all a magical and peaceful holiday season.
Unemployment: A side effect of long COVID
Medical Economics
DECEMBER 18, 2024
New research demonstrates the impact that long COVID has on patients' physical, emotional and financial well-being.
How is Medicare Advantage Policy Forcing Changes in Payer Tech Stacks?
Electronic Health Reporter
DECEMBER 18, 2024
This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Don Rucker, MD, chief strategy officer, 1up Health Medicare Advantage is a capitated health plan and the government, which pays for the plan, needs massive amounts of performance data to ensure that plans do […] The article How is Medicare Advantage Policy Forcing Changes in Payer Tech Stacks?
Telehealth, PBM reforms part of House year-end spending plan
Medical Economics
DECEMBER 18, 2024
Health care organizations respond to mixed bag bill.
The Holiday Leave Dilemma
Emerging RN Leader
DECEMBER 18, 2024
By Rose O. Sherman, EdD, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN I recently had a discussion with a group of nurse managers about their dilemmas with holiday scheduling. This manager’s story is a good illustration of what many leaders find themselves confronting over the next two weeks: I don’t know what has changed, but staff are now much […] The post The Holiday Leave Dilemma appeared first on Emerging Nurse Leader.
Ozempic more than doubles vision loss in patients with type 2 diabetes; permanent telehealth services for sleep medicine; bat feces used to fertilize cannabis leaves 2 dead from rare fungal infection – Morning Medical Update
Medical Economics
DECEMBER 18, 2024
The top news stories in medicine today.
National Healthcare Spending in the U.S. Was Nearly $5 Trillion (with a “T”) in 2023 – New Data from CMS
Health Populi
DECEMBER 18, 2024
What would $5 trillion be valued around the world or on the stock market? The economy of Germany was gauged around $5 trillion in 2024. India could be the world’s 3rd largest economy by 2026 valued at $5 trillion. Nvidia could be a $5 trillion company in 2025, as could Amazon. But today we report out the latest data from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) that national health spending in America reached $4.9 trillion in 2023.
Managed Care History Part III: The Rise of Machine-Driven Managed Care
The Healthcare Blog
DECEMBER 18, 2024
This is part 3 of Jeff Goldsmith’s history of managed care. 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. Insurers Shift Strategy from Sharing Risk with Hospitals and Doctors to Markedly Implicating their Patients.
How the Medicare Prescription Payment Plan provides a practical solution to medication nonadherence
KevinMD.com
DECEMBER 18, 2024
Starting January 1, 2025, the Medicare Prescription Payment Plan (MPPP) will give providers a powerful way to address one of the biggest barriers to effective care: cost-related medication nonadherence. With 54 million Medicare beneficiaries eligible, this program has the potential to improve adherence, reduce hospital readmissions, and ensure better health outcomes on a large scale.
The Role of a Dental Assistant in Modern Dentistry
MedQuest College
DECEMBER 18, 2024
I n todays rapidly evolving dental landscape, the role of dental assistants has grown. No longer confined to traditional tasks, dental assistants are taking on expanded responsibilities that make them essential members of dental teams. In this article, well delve into the role of Dental Assistants in modern dentistry, exploring how their role has evolved, the skills now in demand, and the career paths that await.
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