The Healthcare Blog

DECEMBER 18, 2024

For an extensive review of the literature on how healthcare consumers struggle to manage their financial risk, read Peter Ubels 2019 Sick to Debt: How Smarter Markets Lead to Better Care. In a stunning rapid fire $20 billion acquisition spree from 2019 to 2021, UnitedHealth Group bought Equian, Change Healthcare and naviHealth.

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Insurance Hospital Follow-Up Medication 57

The HIPAA Journal

DECEMBER 24, 2022

In addition to financial penalties, covered entities are required to adopt a corrective action plan to bring policies and procedures up to the standards demanded by HIPAA. . It is the responsibility of each covered entity to ensure that HIPAA Rules are understood and followed. Tier 1: Minimum fine of $100 per violation up to $50,000.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 20, 2019

I have, at CES 2019, when I sat down with Sean Carney, Chief Designer at Philips. I was grateful to Sean for spending time with me at CES 2019 in Las Vegas to brainstorm the role of design in health/care. Sean grew up in Teesside in Yorkshire, in northeastern England. This was a wake-up call for Sean’s team.

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Relias

JULY 4, 2023

A majority said that up to 20% of their charges were incorrectly coded. This coordinated partnership requires a joint effort toward the common goal of accurate charges, identification and resolution of any discrepancies, and signed documentation indicating completion. Yet 40% of their organizations addressed it once a month or less.

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Follow-Up Medical Coding Documentation Best Practices 52

Health Populi

JUNE 5, 2024

“The greatest opportunity offered by AI is not reducing errors or workloads, or even curing cancer: it is the opportunity to restore the precious and time-honored connection and trust,” Dr. Eric Topol wrote in his 2019 book, Deep Medicine: How Artificial Intelligence Can Make Healthcare Human Again.

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Unit Organization and Environment Collaboration Acute Care Documentation 71

The Healthcare Blog

APRIL 2, 2024

billion since 2019. United channeled almost $52 billion of that cash into buying health-related businesses, nearly all of which end up housed inside Optum. It is a sprawling nationwide roll-up of healthcare assets. Follow Optum’s physicians and their patients and see the future. Of Optum’s $226 billion topline, $136.4

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Tests Hospital Insurance Follow-Up 132

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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Relias

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

To improve the quality and efficiency of its healthcare delivery, the Indian Health Service (IHS) launched the Health IT Modernization Program in 2019. A healthcare learning management platform can: Enhance staff competency and performance by providing access to relevant and up-to-date learning content.

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Collaboration Follow-Up Patient Satisfaction Continuing Education 52

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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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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Medical Assistant Documentation Insurance Certification 40

Relias

AUGUST 9, 2023

Engage your employees A huge part of keeping your organization compliant is making sure your staff is doing the same: completing their annual mandatories, utilizing the most current practices, following policies and procedures, and so on. Instead of taking up all your time tracking, spend your time on reporting and analyzing.

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Follow-Up Acute Care Best Practices Tests 52

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. A 2019 study by Hutton et al. Unplanned home births will obviously have worse outcomes than either hospital births or planned home births.

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Hospital Collaboration Transfers Follow-Up 263

Sensible Medicine

MARCH 27, 2024

In 2019 I wrote enthusiastically about his new podcasts in a post entitled “ The Peter Attia Drive Podcast: Longevity, Lipidology, Fructose, and How To Keep Your Face And Joints Young.” I have long aimed for LDL-C and apoB levels/non HDL levels <60 in my patients with documented ASCVD (either by CAC, CCTA or ASCVD events).

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Tests Follow-Up Medication Documentation 299

Relias

MAY 1, 2022

When it comes to assessing and treating pressure injuries, diabetic wounds, and venous wounds, investing in expertise up front can help protect your organization against costly wound care liability down the road. To minimize liability, the entire healthcare team can benefit from training in the following areas: Recognizing wound risk factors.

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Documentation Admissions Acute Care Communication 98

Health Populi

AUGUST 5, 2019

It’s been well-documented that Americans’ trust in institutions, and especially government and media, has eroded over the past decade. The precipitous decline in trust in America among fellow Americans is described in Pew Research Center’s report, Trust and Distrust in America , published July 22, 2019.

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Follow-Up Documentation 101

Health Populi

JANUARY 7, 2019

I’ve worn mine now for three months, and love the nudge I get every hour to get up and move (especially useful as a knowledge worker sitting at a desk for too many hours a day). For more hard-core athletes, CES 2019 features an eSports area with all flavors of digital sports from golf to hockey and tennis.

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Patient Advocacy Customer Service Medication Follow-Up 72

Accepted Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

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. So how do you treat the sick patient who ends up in your hospital and you don’t have the super-duper whatever it is? [12:28] Takes about 45 minutes, and then they write up a report.

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Admissions Medication Follow-Up Hospital 52

Relias

AUGUST 29, 2022

In 2019, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) issued a joint statement with Physicians for Reproductive Health, stating, “There are situations where pregnancy termination in the form of an abortion is the only medical intervention that can preserve a patient’s health or save their life.

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Follow-Up Medication Patient Safety Documentation 84

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

Health Populi

MARCH 13, 2019

“Patients as Consumers” is the theme of the Health Affairs issue for March 2019. patients in 2019 — patients, consumers, people, health citizens? Taken together, these four papers from Health Affairs lead to the following themes: By 2019, patients in the U.S.

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Insurance Hospital Follow-Up Documentation 102

Sensible Medicine

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

” Turning up the temperature in this combustible debate is counterproductive. This is still a nascent medical field, and most longitudinal studies of such treatment have a follow-up of only a year or two. Lexis-Nexis, meanwhile, reported that the annual gender-dysphoria diagnosis rate doubled from 2019 to 2023.

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