The HIPAA Journal

JULY 11, 2025

A $14 million settlement has received preliminary approval to end class action data breach litigation against Independent Living Systems (ILS), which experienced a data breach in 2022 that was reported to the HHS’ Office for Civil Rights as affecting 4,226,508 individuals.

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The Healthcare Blog

APRIL 14, 2025

government and others, I decided that a 2022 April Fools column in Health Affairs actually provided a rough guide to understanding many usage decisions. But even a cursory qualitative analysis suggests a more nuanced picture than volume alone provides. After poking into the preferences of publications, corporations, the U.S.

Medication 67

Medication Hospital Billing Insurance 67

Medical Economics

JUNE 12, 2025

As an essential first step, the Wellbeing First Champions Challenge recognizes health care facilities, systems, licensure boards, and insurers that eliminate intrusive mental health questions and stigmatizing language from their forms.

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Best Practices Medication Patient Care Hospital 52

The Healthcare Blog

JUNE 11, 2025

A December 2022 Gartner Market Guide report characterized the long-term potential: The [U]DHP shift will emerge as the most cost-effective and technically efficient way to scale new digital capabilities within and across health ecosystems and will, over time, replace the dominant era of the monolithic electronic health record (EHR).

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Billing Hospital Documentation Medication 67

Sensible Medicine

JULY 17, 2025

High blood pressure killed nearly 686,000 Americans in 2022. The Insurance Companies Knew First The medical profession's relationship with hypertension has an embarrassing history. It was insurance companies, not doctors, who first identified the dangers of high blood pressure. Please consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.

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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.

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Medication Insurance Follow-Up Tests 66

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.

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Precepting Scheduling Care Plan Follow-Up 52

Practice Index

APRIL 10, 2025

Health Secretary Wes Streeting said: It is only because of the necessary decisions we took to increase employer National Insurance that we are able to recruit more GPs and deliver better services for patients. The Department of Health said the recruitment would help end the 8am scramble for appointments.

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Huddles/Rounds Triage Follow-Up Appointments 52

Arkenea

APRIL 10, 2025

Benefits of Outsourced Software Product Development Cost Efficiency According to Deloittes 2022 Global Outsourcing Survey, 57percent of executives cite cost reduction as the primary driver for traditional outsourcing, typically via staff augmentation for transactional business and IT activities.

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Tests Communication Documentation Follow-Up 52

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.

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Insurance Billing Hospital Medication 90

The HIPAA Journal

JUNE 12, 2025

EMTALA requires hospitals that receive Medicare payments to provide a medical screening examination to any patient presenting at an emergency department who requests an examination, regardless of their insurance status, ability to pay, national origin, race, creed, or color. The patient presented at the ED with a suspected ectopic pregnancy.

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Transfers Discharges Medical History Hospital 49

Medical Economics

JUNE 23, 2025

The rule standardizes the open enrollment period, allows insurers to deny coverage for unpaid premiums, and repeals certain special enrollment periods. These changes aim to stabilize the insurance market, reduce adverse selection, and ensure taxpayer dollars are used appropriately. million with insurance for 2025. Kennedy Jr.

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Insurance Medication Billing Huddles/Rounds 66

Healthcare Dive - Practice Management

JUNE 30, 2025

Plaintiffs argued the executive order violated a federal “free choice of provider clause” that guarantees Medicaid beneficiaries the right to choose their doctor, so long as they are qualified and accept the insurance. Justice Neil Gorsuch, writing the majority opinion, said the law provided no such explicit guarantee.

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Medical Coding Billing Hospital Insurance 63

Forbes Healthcare

JULY 7, 2025

Home Warranty Cost Best Home Appliance Insurance Best Solar Companies Best Solar Panels Cost Of Solar Panels Solar Tax Credit By State Are Solar Panels Worth It? Universities Adapting To AI; Medicine Falling Behind Following the release of OpenAI’s ChatGPT in 2022, college deans and department chairs responded with caution.

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Medication Insurance Follow-Up Tests 255

CollaborateMD

JANUARY 17, 2025

The findings also point out that much of the costs result from the burden and time associated with dealing with specific practices that insurers have put in place around prior authorization and delays in payments. KPMG reveals that CMS predicts total hospital provider spending will increase by 50 percent between 2022 and 2030.

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Billing Insurance Hospital Medication 84

Mildred Elley

MARCH 19, 2025

Do you see yourself in the exam room or would you rather be managing the files, phone calls, and insurance claims? As people continue to seek out preventive healthcare services, employment of medical assistants is projected to grow 14% from 2022-2032.(2) 2) Which role stands out to you?

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Healthcare Dive - Practice Management

JUNE 16, 2025

Amazon closed Amazon Care , its hybrid physical and virtual care business, in 2022. Company Announcements View all | Post a press release Fully insured medical claims analysis shows significant cost savings and 2.4x However, not all of the e-commerce giant’s swings have connected. Morgan to lower healthcare costs for employers.

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Follow-Up Insurance Medication Hospital 78

Forbes Healthcare

JUNE 24, 2025

Home Warranty Cost Best Home Appliance Insurance Best Solar Companies Best Solar Panels Cost Of Solar Panels Solar Tax Credit By State Are Solar Panels Worth It? Best Home Warranty Companies Cheapest Home Warranty Companies Are Home Warranties Worth It?

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Insurance Follow-Up Tests Transfers 281

Forbes Healthcare

JUNE 19, 2025

Home Warranty Cost Best Home Appliance Insurance Best Solar Companies Best Solar Panels Cost Of Solar Panels Solar Tax Credit By State Are Solar Panels Worth It? Best Home Warranty Companies Cheapest Home Warranty Companies Are Home Warranties Worth It?

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Insurance Follow-Up Diagnostics Transfers 251

Health Populi

MAY 27, 2025

As the line chart here illustrates, health care spending spiked in 2021 following a dramatic fall during the height of the COVID-19 “pandemic disruption” from 2020 to 2022, then fell and rose again by 2023. It’s wages that U.S.

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Billing Outpatient Care Follow-Up Medication 71

The Healthcare Blog

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Essentially the government via the OPM pays lots of different insurance companies to manage Federal employees health care. All DOG(gi)E needs to do is read the report on the audits , or look at what GOA said about $1bn being spend on ineligible members in 2022 and apply their recommendations.

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Hospital Insurance 62

Health Populi

OCTOBER 8, 2020

who benefits from health insurance at the workplace, the annual family premium will average $21,342 this year, according to the 2020 Employer Health Benefits Survey from the Kaiser Family Foundation. Workers receiving health insurance through their jobs have seen their portfolio of benefits changing over the years.

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Insurance 173

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.

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Insurance Follow-Up Hospital 117

Healthcare Dive - Practice Management

MAY 14, 2024

Hospitals with larger market shares were among the worst offenders, the RAND Corporation found.

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Hospital Insurance 108

Health Populi

JUNE 20, 2022

When high-deductible health plans became part of health insurance design in America, they were lauded as giving patients “more skin in the game” of health care payments. “Instead, they’ve faced thousands of dollars in bills as health insurers shifted costs onto patients through higher deductibles.” “U.S.

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Insurance Medication Billing Huddles/Rounds 125

Health Populi

JANUARY 25, 2022

As physicians deal on the frontlines in Year 3 of the COVID-19 pandemic, they’re stressed, anxious, and angry concludes the Medscape 2022 Physician Burnout & Depression Report. The post Diagnosis: Stress, Anxiety and Anger – the 2022 Medscape Physician Burnout & Depression Report appeared first on HealthPopuli.com.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 13, 2021

This feels especially apt right “now” as we enter 2022, Year 3 of the COVID-19 pandemic, with people mentally stressed, anxious, and shrugging off the Omicron variant – while taking on more DIY life-flows, self-care and desire for (more) control. We start at a macro bird’s-eye view with Gartner’s top US consumer and cultural trends for 2022.

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Insurance Collaboration Medication Hospital 78

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

household budgets in February 2022, highlighted in a poll from Morning Consult : inflationary spikes for housing, food, and energy, and the COVID-19 Omicron variant forcing health care costs up for some consumers driving medical debt up. in January 2022. in January 2022. There’s a trifecta cost challenge hitting U.S.

Medication 71

Medication Triage Billing Insurance 71

The HIPAA Journal

MAY 19, 2025

The California health insurance exchange, Covered California, has been found to be sharing sensitive data with LinkedIn via website trackers, according to an investigation by The Markup. The post California Health Insurance Exchange Sent Sensitive User Data to LinkedIn appeared first on The HIPAA Journal.

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Insurance HIPAA Appointments Hospital 81

Health Populi

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

The cost of health insurance for a worker who buys into a health plan at work in 2022 reached $22,463 for their family. The average monthly mortgage payment was $1,759 in mid-2022. The post Thinking Value-Based Health Care at HLTH 2022 – A Call-to-Action appeared first on HealthPopuli.com. Think value-based care.

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Billing Insurance Hospital Collaboration 71

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. Each year, I figure out what the average PPO cost could buy someone in exchange for that health insurance.

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Insurance Follow-Up Tests Medication 174

Health Populi

JUNE 1, 2022

Welcome to this year’s 2022 Milliman Medical Index , which annually calculates the health care costs for a median family of 4 in the U.S. While costs in the Index fell in 2021 (seen in the bar chart), in 2022 the MMI increased at a rate similar to pre-pandemic levels. or health care for a family of four.

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Medication Outpatient Care Hospital Diagnostics 87

Health Populi

JUNE 26, 2023

People love being health-insured, but their negative experiences with health plans create serious burdens on patients-as-consumers. The 2023 Kaiser Family Foundation Survey of Consumer Experiences with Health Insurance updates our understanding of and empathy for insured peoples’ Patient Administrative Burdens (PAB).

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Insurance Appointments Billing Hospital 62

Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

receive health insurance through employers. With that objective, it’s always instructive to explore the annual study from the Business Group on Health, the 2022 Large Employers’ Health Care Strategy and Plan Design Survey. One in two people in the U.S.

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Medication Insurance 62

Health Populi

AUGUST 12, 2021

By 2022, CTA projects that connected exercise equipment will reach sales of 2.5 How to ensure insurers, employers, and others use IoHT and IoB data in the context of health and wellness with the opt-in of health citizens? million units with revenues of $4.5

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Medication Hospital Insurance 174

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. The post Telehealth Update from the AMA – Setting the Context for ATA 2022 appeared first on HealthPopuli.com. Creating An Opportunity in a Time of Uncertainty.”

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Follow-Up Patient Satisfaction Best Practices Appointments 62

Health Populi

JULY 17, 2023

Most patients, nurses and doctors believe that health insurance plans reduce access to health care which contributes to clinician burnout and increases costs, based on three surveys conducted by Morning Consult for the American Hospital Association (AHA).

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Insurance Transfers Hospital Medication 62