Minority Nurse

JUNE 23, 2025

According to the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN), nursing schools turned away thousands of qualified applicants in 2022, with “insufficient clinical placement sites” cited as a primary barrier. Mental Health Strain : The constant pressure creates chronic stress and burnout symptoms.

Precepting

Medical Economics

AUGUST 5, 2025

3 This change followed a nearly 15% rise in CRC incidence among adults aged 50 years or younger over the past 30 years. Galoosian and colleagues measured screening uptake over six months following the intervention. Researchers found: Up-to-date CRC screening prevalence grew from 20.8% in 2021, up to 33.7% in 2021 to 7.1%

Follow-Up

Medical Economics

JULY 1, 2025

The new model follows an announcement by CMS leaders to work with health insurers on sweeping reforms to the PA process that has delayed care, consuming vast amounts of time of physicians and other clinicians pursuing approvals before delivering treatments. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). health care spending.

Medication

Medical Economics

JULY 10, 2025

Vertical integration between insurers and physicians may enhance care coordination but raises concerns about competition and access. Health insurer control of primary care is lower in counties with concentrated hospital markets, indicating potential constraints on integration. It was published in Health Affairs Scholar. of the U.S.

Insurance

Forbes Healthcare

JULY 7, 2025

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Medication

Medical Economics

JULY 24, 2025

Meanwhile, enrollees will pay an average of $198 in premiums this year due to overpayments to MA insurers. He used the example of a Texas surgeon who had a conflict with an insurer, then used a GoFundMe online fundraiser to keep her practice afloat. Physicians and other clinicians also make up an important stakeholder group in MA.

Insurance

Healthcare Dive - Practice Management

JUNE 16, 2025

Daily Dive M-F Payer Weekly Every Wednesday IT Weekly Every Thursday By signing up to receive our newsletter, you agree to our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. Dive Brief: Amazon has restructured its healthcare business following mixed performance from its offerings in the sector and the recent departure of several high-level executives.

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Forbes Healthcare

JUNE 24, 2025

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Insurance

Forbes Healthcare

AUGUST 3, 2025

Here’s How To Avoid Getting It By Omer Awan Follow Author Share Save Comment Innovation Healthcare Liver Cancer Cases Are On The Rise. Follow Author Aug 03, 2025, 10:16am EDT Share Save Comment Cancer of the liver, seen in a radial cross-section abdominal scan. Here’s How To Avoid Getting It By Omer Awan , Senior Contributor.

Insurance

Forbes Healthcare

AUGUST 8, 2025

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Insurance

Forbes Healthcare

JUNE 19, 2025

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Insurance

Health Populi

MAY 27, 2025

This year, we learn that outpatient care and pharmacy were the two line items most responsible for driving the PPO cost up to over $35K: pharmacy costs rose 9.7% making up 28% of spending, pharmacy (one in $5 of spending, inpatient (hospital) care constituting 17% of spending, and other line items at 2% of the remainder.

Billing

Health Populi

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

While consumers’ satisfaction with inpatient care experiences improved a few points over the past year, health insurance and hospitals still fall in the bottom-third of all industries with which people interact, according to the American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI) Insurance and Health Care Study 2021-2022.

Insurance

Forbes Healthcare

AUGUST 1, 2025

Follow Author Aug 01, 2025, 09:00am EDT Share Save Comment In this week’s edition of The Prototype, we look at water on Mars, how new technology could end animal testing, a possible vaccine for HIV, and more. You can sign up to get The Prototype in your inbox here. Alex Knapp is a Forbes senior editor covering healthcare and science.

Insurance

Health Populi

JUNE 2, 2021

A big uncertainty in this year’s forecast, pondering the 2022 picture, is what extent eliminate care will have on future adverse health outcomes… something that keeps my scenario planning humming across various modeling. up, compared with the largest cost increase across categories in 2020 of 7.2%. higher than in 2020.

Insurance

The HIPAA Journal

APRIL 29, 2025

A settlement has been agreed to resolve litigation stemming from a 2022 data breach at AllCare Plus Pharmacy. The Northborough, MA-based pharmacy detected the security incident on June 21, 2022, when suspicious activity was identified in an employees email account. A lawsuit – C eleste Brown, et al.

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The HIPAA Journal

MAY 2, 2024

Data Breach Insights Healthcare accounted for 28% of data breach incidents, followed by finance and insurance (17%), business and professional services (15%), and education (13%). The biggest known root cause of all incidents was the exploitation of unpatched vulnerabilities (23% of incidents) followed by phishing (20%).

HIPAA

Health Populi

APRIL 28, 2022

This report provides insightful context for the upcoming annual ATA Conference for 2022 , being held in-person in Boston kicking off May 1st. Most frequently, virtual care is being used for treatment or therapy, screening or diagnosis, and follow-up care, by at least 70% of clinicians. Hospital or emergency room follow-up.

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Health Populi

MARCH 2, 2021

Most of these live video calls were also done through a service offered by consumers’ health care providers (doctors/clinicians), followed by services offered by insurance companies. Willingness in sharing health data with insurers, pharmacies, research institutions all fell between 2019 and 2020.

Follow-Up

Health Populi

JUNE 23, 2022

In that report, Guardian, an insurance and financial services company, asked people to rank the macro factors that shape their wellbeing. Physical health, comprising 33% of well-being, followed by. Emotional health, making up 27% of well-being. in Hong Kong the week of 20 June 2022). in the U.S. in Belgium, $8.66

Follow-Up

Health Prime

APRIL 25, 2024

From that, set up a project for the AR team to adjust the old AR. Ensure you follow up on the progress and run reports at the end of the process to identify all adjusted claims that can be used in return when filing your taxes. Enhance patient communication Improving communication with patients is crucial in preventing bad debt.

Billing

Minority Nurse

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

During the COVID-19 pandemic, the National Council of State Boards of Nursing (NCSBN) (2022) estimated over 100,000 registered nurses left the profession and predicted that another 800,000 nurses would follow them by 2027. According to the Joint Commission (2022), 1,441 sentinel events were reported in 2022, a 19% increase from 2021.

Patient Care

The HIPAA Journal

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

The use of ransomware in cyberattacks decreased slightly in the first half of the year; however, the severity of ransomware attacks increased according to the 2024 Cyber Claims Report: Mid-Year Update from cyber insurance and security service provider Coalition. Users of FortioOS SSL VPNs were 2.8 times as likely to submit a claim.

Follow-Up

Health Populi

MAY 30, 2022

I appreciated the opportunity to share my perspectives on “The Patient As the Payer: How the Pandemic, Inflation, and Anxiety are Reshaping Consumers” in a webinar hosted by CarePayment on 25 May 2022. It’s important to note that health care cost fiscal stress is not only a symptom for people lacking health insurance.

Billing

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

Insurance

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.

HIPAA

Health Populi

APRIL 4, 2022

Inflation and rising prices are the biggest problem facing America, most people told the Kaiser Family Foundation March 2022 Health Tracking Poll. was Russia’s invasion into Ukraine, noted by 18% of people — from 14% of Republicans up to 23% of Democrats. The cost of filling up a car’s gas tank ranked first among U.S.

Long Term Care

Health Populi

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Power’s 2022 Telehealth Satisfaction Study. Power found in their Study which was conducted among 4,306 health care consumers who had used a telehealth service in the 12 months preceding June and July 2022 when the survey was fielded. For health plan-provided telehealth, Humana topped the list, followed by Aetna in second place.

Follow-Up

The HIPAA Journal

MARCH 20, 2025

Data breaches increased once again in 2022, with OCR receiving reports of 720 data breaches of 500 or more records. million records breached, and 2022 was worse with 51.9 Dominion National Insurance Company, and Dominion Dental Services USA, Inc. TX Business Associate 2,700,000 Hacking/IT Incident 44 2022 Connexin Software, Inc.

Business Associate

Health Populi

JULY 18, 2025

for group health insurance. in 2022 when cost trend dipped coming out of the COVID-19 pandemic… then shot up to 8.0% the following year in patients’ healthcare catch-up mode. What’s continuing to drive up health care costs? This contrasts with a low of 5.5%

Medication

Health Populi

MAY 19, 2020

Imagine this: you find yourself with $6,553 in your pocket and you can pick one of the following: A new 2020 Breitling Navitimer watch; A year’s in-state tuition at Valdosta State University; or, A PPO for an average individual. For your historical context, here’s last year’s write-up on the 2019 MMI.

Medication

Health Populi

JULY 29, 2022

” Well beyond our individual genetic codes, our health is made where we live, work, play, pray, learn, and shop… also well beyond hospitals and doctors’ offices in-between appointments, and often paid-for out-of-pocket quite separate from peoples’ health insurance plans. Power 2022 U.S.

Appointments

Health Populi

JUNE 11, 2024

As an Index, the MMI combines several line items of healthcare spending to make up the overall number, and this methodology allows us to compare the rising costs of care for a family of 4 covered by a PPO year to year.

Medication

Pulmonology Advisor - Practice Management

MAY 17, 2024

An update to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Security Rule is now underway with new cybersecurity requirements. The latest data show a 93% increase in large breaches (from 369 to 712) reported from 2018 to 2022. The update is designed to help the health care sector build a more resilient system.

HIPAA

Health Populi

DECEMBER 1, 2023

consumers’ use of credit has grown post-pandemic, delinquencies on credit cards are up, and savings falling after having achieved some nice growth in the pandemic largely owed to pandemic payments from the Federal government. Note that U.S. Baby Boomers would be least likely to postpone a visit for preventive care.

Billing

Health Prime

JULY 27, 2023

It involves obtaining approval from insurance companies before a specific procedure, treatment, or medication is administered. The prior authorization process acts as a bridge between healthcare providers and insurance companies, safeguarding the financial interests of both parties.

Documentation

Minority Nurse

JUNE 14, 2024

She ’ s also the host of Nurse.com ’ s NurseDot Podcast and a member of the LGBTQ+ community, highlighting a variety of voices within the nursing industry while also speaking to her personal experiences as an RN and founder of HOLLIBLU, a social networking app exclusively for nurses (acquired by Nurse.com in 2022).

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