Physicians Practice

JUNE 26, 2025

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The Healthcare Blog

JUNE 11, 2025

1) EHRs Currently Own the Customer Relationship Fueled by federal HITECH incentives and mandates, health systems have made significant investments in their existing EHRs: As of 2021, 96% of non-federal acute care hospitals in the U.S. had adopted a certified EHR.

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Arkenea

APRIL 10, 2025

Faster TimetoMarket In a health insurance policy management system project, a client achieved a fourmonth launch timeline by outsourcing development and QA to a dedicated vendor. Document nonfunctional requirements such as performance, security, and compliance.

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Arkenea

JUNE 8, 2025

It also consists information about demographics, medical insurance, and data acquired from wearable health devices. For example, number of people suffering from diabetes in 2021 or number of people diagnosed with tuberculosis last year. Document demographics of at least 50 percent of patients. Document everything and save it.

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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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Forbes Healthcare

JUNE 28, 2025

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Electronic Health Reporter

JANUARY 19, 2021

2020 is behind you, and it’s the season to roll up your sleeves, pull out your documents, open your checkbook, and work to choose the right health insurance plan to meet your needs for 2021. […]. The article 6 Tips For Choosing The Right Health Insurance Plan appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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Health Populi

JUNE 24, 2020

Whether healthcare spending in 2021 increases by double-digits or falls by one-third directly depends on how the coronavirus pandemic will play out over the rest of 2020, based on PwC’s annual report on medical cost trends for 2021. In 2021, spending would return to pre-COVID projections. Patients Forgo Care Until 2021.”

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The HIPAA Journal

MAY 2, 2024

BioPlus Specialty Pharmacy Services has proposed a settlement to resolve a class action lawsuit that was filed in response to a 2021 data breach that exposed the data of up to 350,000 patients. The maximum claim permitted depends on whether Social Security numbers were compromised.

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The HIPAA Journal

MARCH 7, 2025

Apria Healthcare, an Indianapolis-based provider of home healthcare equipment and related services, has agreed to pay $6,400,000 to resolve all claims related to data breaches in 2019 and 2021 that affected 1,869,598 individuals. A further hacking incident was experienced in 2021 and was disclosed by Apria Healthcare in May 2023.

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Arkenea

JULY 12, 2024

Medical insurance verification software is developed to automate the process of verifying patients’ insurance coverages. This software is connected to the insurance company’s database to retrieve real-time data on a patient’s insurance status. In 2022, 92.1 percent of people, or 304.0 percent and 36.1

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Health Populi

MARCH 2, 2021

But another patient side-effect of COVID-19 has been the digital transformation of many patients , documented by data gathered by Rock Health and Stanford Center for Digital Health and analyzed in their latest report explaining how the public health crisis accelerated digital health “beyond its years,” noted in the title of the report.

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Relias

JUNE 1, 2022

Coding and clinical documentation have never been more important in healthcare. “We You’ll need ongoing training for your staff to improve your clinical documentation and avoid the following coding disasters. The documentation and coding are appropriate on our end. Insufficient Clinical Documentation or Underreported codes.

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Relias

JUNE 1, 2022

Coding and clinical documentation have never been more important in healthcare. “We You’ll need ongoing training for your staff to improve your clinical documentation and avoid the following coding disasters. The documentation and coding are appropriate on our end. Insufficient Clinical Documentation or Underreported codes.

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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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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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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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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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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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The HIPAA Journal

DECEMBER 24, 2022

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 placed a number of requirements on HIPAA-covered entities to safeguard the Protected Health Information (PHI) of patients, and to strictly control when PHI can be divulged, and to whom. OCR HIPAA Fines 2021. HIPAA Penalties 2022. Phillip Igbinadolor, D.M.D. &

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Arkenea

MARCH 29, 2025

Nearly 45 million records were exposed or stolen in 2021. Covered entities include health insurance companies, health plans, healthcare programs by the government, healthcare providers, and healthcare clearinghouses. The entire risk analysis is documented and reviewed periodically to prevent ePHI violations.

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The HIPAA Journal

APRIL 27, 2025

The first request was made on December 30, 2020; however, the EEG tracing was not provided until September 29, 2021, 9 months after the first request was made. In the Fall of 2021, OCR received complaints from 6 individuals who claimed not to have been provided with a copy of their requested records in a timely manner.

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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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Physicians Practice

JULY 24, 2025

© yavdat - stock.adobe.com For years, there was pushback by the Government that violations of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 ( HIPAA )[1] constituted a basis for False Claims Act ( FCA ) violations.[2] 1] Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996, Pub. 104-191 (Aug. 111-5 (Feb.

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Northwest Career College

MARCH 18, 2025

Developed by the World Health Organization, ICD-10 codes allow for uniform reporting of medical conditions so that doctors, hospitals, and insurance providers can understand and communicate what an individual has. These codes are used to classify and code all diagnoses, symptoms, and procedures in health care. As stated by the U.S.

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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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Arkenea

JANUARY 25, 2025

Since it includes patients’ data or ePHI (Protected Health Information), it’s essential to encompass HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) rules during the e-prescription software development process. In 2021, the CMS published rules to implement an RTBT (Real-Time Benefit Tool) by January 2023.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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

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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