Medical Economics

JULY 24, 2025

The Journal’s analysis of Medicare data between 2019 and 2021 found that in-home assessments conducted by UnitedHealth nurses triggered an average of $2,735 in added federal payments per visit. The data revealed that some diagnoses were added to patient charts even when no treating physician had made the determination.

Billing

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.

Billing

Arkenea

JUNE 8, 2025

For example, number of people suffering from diabetes in 2021 or number of people diagnosed with tuberculosis last year. Certified EHR are those that meet the standards defined by the certification and testing body. Implement results of clinical tests in patients’ EHR. Records are used for public health management.

Discharges

Doximity

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

As a 2020-2021 Doximity Thought Leadership Fellow, I had the opportunity to write several Op-Meds focused on health equity, using my platform to shed light on disparities in medicine. Doximity has been an invaluable resource in my journey as a physician and advocate for health equity. Read my Doximity Op-Meds.

Patient Care

Medical Economics

JUNE 20, 2025

A 2021 systematic review published in the Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease found that gait changes often precede detectable cognitive decline. Several Medicare billing pathways already support this: Annual wellness visits (AWVs): Fall risk screening is a required component; the TUG (Timed Up and Go) test qualifies as a gait assessment.

Vital Signs

The HIPAA Journal

JUNE 12, 2025

She reported 10/10 pain, left lower quadrant pain, extreme cramping, and bleeding, and had a positive pregnancy test with her OB/GYN earlier that day. Diagnostic tests revealed a beta HCG of 4049, indicative of intrauterine or ectopic pregnancy. The patient presented at the ED with a suspected ectopic pregnancy.

Transfers

Sensible Medicine

MARCH 14, 2025

The only problem was that the patient population would change over the course of the study – the unscreened population was studied mostly in 2019 and early 2020 while the screened population was mostly late 2020 early 2021. Thus, the results would have to be adjusted. Alerts occurred in 14.6% of the screening group and 17.6%

Vital Signs

CollaborateMD

JANUARY 17, 2025

between 2021 and 2023 two times faster than Medicare reimbursement for hospital inpatient care. Preventive services include: Screenings and tests Checkups Patient counseling Vaccines Preventive care lowers costs for healthcare providers and systems by identifying and addressing health issues before they begin.

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Intercoast

APRIL 19, 2025

In 2021, 15.8% These courses provide a valuable opportunity to review exam content, practice test-taking strategies, and connect with other professionals in the field. of veterans aged 18 or older struggled with a substance use disorder ( Source ).

Unit Organization and Environment

Forbes Healthcare

JULY 2, 2025

Representatives from several major health insurers said last week they had pledged to the Department of Health and Human Services they would improve their prior authorization protocols for diagnostic and screening tests, prescription medications and hospital or clinic procedures. In these instances, prior authorization is essential.

Insurance

Forbes Healthcare

JUNE 24, 2025

ForSight has been testing its robot on pig eyes, and plans to complete its first full robotic surgery on a human patient later this year. In March 2021, ForSight raised its first $10 million in seed funding led by Eclipse to develop a surgical robotics platform that could do high-precision and cost-effective eye surgery.

Insurance

The Healthcare Blog

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

In many ways, kidney care is a useful test bed for the efficacy of VBC in both primary and specialty care. Department of Health and Human Services from 2018-2021 and is currently a member of the board of directors atInterwell Health The result is better outcomes for patients and lower costs for payers.

Patient Experience

Medical Economics

JUNE 20, 2025

Reynolds Key Takeaways Zishan Alvi sentenced for $14M COVID-19 test fraud, involving false claims and bogus results, targeting federal relief programs. Alvi admitted to billing over $14 million for tests that were either never performed or improperly diluted to cut costs, then issuing bogus negative results.

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Forbes Healthcare

JUNE 28, 2025

Of the more than 27,000 guano samples analyzed, just over 1% tested positive for avian influenza RNA. More positive samples collected in guano from 2021 to 2023. Whether in remote island roosts or along migratory corridors near commercial farms, bird droppings may offer a scalable substrate for global influenza surveillance.

Insurance

Health Populi

MAY 27, 2025

If you’re keen to test these assumptions and how the MMI can change, Milliman welcomes you to do so using an interactive tool that enables you to change the family composition and do sensitivity analyses).

Billing

The Healthcare Blog

JUNE 10, 2025

His article, titled “5 AI bots took our tough reading test. Judging the results of the medical research test was Scripps Research Translational Institute luminary, Eric Topol. From here, the path to the (AI enabled) Intelligence Age is paved with compute, energy, and human will.” Claude was born that same year.

Tests

Health Populi

JUNE 2, 2021

But like a déjà vu all over again, annual health care costs for a family of four enrolled in a PPO will climb to over $28,000 in 2021, based on the latest 2021 Milliman Medical Index (MMI). Looking at Figure 3, the table on average person cost trends to 2021, we see that costs grow for every service category in 2021.

Insurance

Sensible Medicine

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

It’s been a few years since I first heard about the Galleri test produced by the Menlo Park startup Grail. Galleri is a blood-based screening test for cancer. For a couple of reasons, I didn’t work very hard to learn about the Galleri test. Second, I was worried that this test might have real promise.

Tests

Scrubs

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

in 2021, depriving the industry of thousands of potential providers. Experts estimate that about 20% of those who graduate from nursing school aren’t passing the test, which means they won’t be able to enter the nursing profession. The pass rate fell from 88.2% in 2019 to 82.5% The Next Gen NCLEX is set to launch on April 1.

Critical Thinking

Scrubs

MARCH 29, 2023

A new cancer detection tool known as the “holy grail” of early detection is currently being tested in hospitals throughout the U.K., It is the first pan-cancer blood test, according to Ashish Tripathi, founder and CEO of Tzar Labs and chairman of Epigeneres Biotech, an Indian firm that first developed the test in 2021. “We

Tests

Sensible Medicine

APRIL 14, 2024

For instance, CAR-T was given to myeloma patients in 2014, but we only learned it can cause Parkinsonism in 2021. I am not aware of any drug being tested in the frontline of myeloma that is not already on the US market for relapsed disease. It can take several years for the full safety profile of drugs to be known.

Patient Advocacy

Health Populi

JUNE 10, 2021

adult 18 and over in April 2021 to gather data for this annual report. In 2021, smartwatch adoption exceeded wearable activity fitness tracker market penetration, both around one-third of U.S. Household penetration of smartwatch ownership grew 12%, whereas activity tracker growth was fairly flat between 2020 and 2021.

HIPAA

Health Populi

JUNE 16, 2021

Wherever you live in the world touched by the coronavirus pandemic, you felt (and were) stress-tested. In this year’s 2021 annual report by Deloitte into Connectivity & Mobile Trends, their report details How the pandemic has stress-tested the crowded digital home. Both you were, and your home was as well.

Tests

Health Populi

APRIL 6, 2021

Trust in the technology industry has crashed to an all-time low based on the 2021 Edelman Trust Barometer. Most industries lost citizens’ trust between 2020 and 2021, most notably, Technology, dropping the greatest margin at 9 points. As Richard Edelman, CEO, concisely asserted , “Tech loses its halo.”

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Health Populi

JANUARY 13, 2021

Yoga classes, concerts and weddings were streamed via Zoom,” Fjord Trends 2021 from Accenture Interactive observes. This has been particularly true for health care, inspiring virtual appointments and medical tests administered at home, as growing virtual care platforms support peoples’ self-care for health care.

Appointments

Health Populi

MAY 21, 2020

One in 5 of people with health insurance were concerned about losing their health plan in the next six months as the coronavirus heats up, recedes, and may re-emerge in the fourth quarter of 2020 into 2021.

Insurance

Medical Gas Compliance

JUNE 17, 2021

CHT provides pressure and airflow tests with documentation as part of your Vitaleyez ™ program profile that satisfies the code. T his article discusses the importance of air quality and hospital airflow and the changes to ASHRAE Standard 170-2021.

Hospital

Health Populi

APRIL 21, 2021

Care delivery that uses both traditional “physical” and virtual modalities, which got stress-tested during the pandemic, and, Care to the home leveraging remote monitoring and the power of patient engagement.

Hospital

Scrubs

APRIL 20, 2023

The American Association of Colleges of Nursing stated that close to 91,938 qualified applicants were denied the baccalaureate nursing programs during 2021 and 2022. For instance, AI can recognize the requirement for blood tests much faster than any human can. It will eventually result in quicker test collection and fast outcomes.

Tests

Minority Nurse

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

After working with Garnett to master the material and conquer her testing anxiety, she passed the test and currently works as an LPN in hospice. Garnett played a fundamental role in the launch of Sheppard Pratt’s new Baltimore/Washington Campus hospital in June 2021.

Unit Organization and Environment

Health Populi

MAY 19, 2020

Top-line, there are new-new costs borne in 2020 for virus testing and treatment. These new workflows will also impact what the MMI will look like in 2021 and beyond. We may well see a new piece of the pie chart marked, “virtual care” and “self-care” if not in 2021, then by 2022.

Medication

19 Labs

JULY 20, 2021

SAN MATEO, CA — JULY 20, 2021 — The hospital-at-home trend is rapidly changing the healthcare industry globally and throughout the Gulf countries. Bringing hospital-at-home to pharmacies, schools, homes, and rural communities in Gulf countries.

Vital Signs

The Healthcare Blog

MAY 30, 2024

BlackCat was also responsible for 2021’s Colonial Pipeline shutdown and several attacks on health care organizations throughout 2023. In 2021, the Red Cross experienced a breach of over 515,000 patient records when attackers targeted its data storage partner. Medical groups must also emphasize employee training.

Patient Records

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

consumer spending rose from December 2021 to January 2022 for education, telecom, auto leases and loans, health care, car insurance, gas, groceries, health insurance, and public transportation. in December 2021 to 5.7% across the U.S.; more granularly, $4.83 in California, and $3.85 in Illinois, and a low of $3.23 in Arkansas.

Medication

Minority Nurse

AUGUST 15, 2022

We need them to have the skill set of being a leader, standing up, being at the table and when they’re at the table, having ideas, being creative, and knowing how to test them. Now, a crosswalk has developed between QSEN competency statements and the 2021 AACN Essential Statements, notes Dolansky.

Follow-Up

Scrubs

MAY 30, 2024

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics , employment of registered nurses is projected to grow by 6% from 2021 to 2031, with an estimated 195,400 job openings each year. The nursing field offers excellent job prospects and earning potential in the United States.

Critical Thinking

Minority Nurse

MAY 9, 2022

When Cade Conville took the podium at the Fall 2021 Accelerated Masters in Nursing Pathway Senior Recognition Ceremony , what could have been a typical award speech turned into an emotional account of his path to nursing and his story of resilience. Six years ago, Conville was a gunshot wound victim.

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