FierceHealthIT

AUGUST 20, 2020

on discarded Part B drugs in 2017 and 2018: report. Medicare spent $1.4B Thu, 08/20/2020 - 15:02.

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Medicare 135

FierceHealthIT

JULY 15, 2020

AHA: Nonprofit hospitals delivered $100B in community benefits in 2017. Wed, 07/15/2020 - 11:21.

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FierceHealthIT

JANUARY 4, 2019

Many hospitals are making significant investments in community programs, despite losing nearly $77 billion in Medicare and Medicaid payments in 2017, according to new data from the American Hospital Association.

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Medicare 97

FierceHealthIT

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Accountable care organizations lowered Medicare spending by $755 million from 2013 to 2017, a new analysis found.

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FierceHealthIT

JULY 6, 2020

500K people dropped out of coverage between 2017 and 2018: report. Mon, 07/06/2020 - 13:39.

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FierceHealthIT

AUGUST 15, 2019

The uninsured rate went up in 2017 after several years of declines, and the trend particularly affected people in states that did not expand Medicaid, a new study shows.

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FierceHealthIT

DECEMBER 5, 2019

increase from 2017 as Medicare is footing the bill for higher drug prices, a new analysis found. Hospitals got $201 billion in Medicare fee-for-service payments in 2018, a 3.6%

Medicare 86

Medicare 86

Mobile Health Matters

JANUARY 16, 2018

2017 was a roller-coaster ride for healthcare, marked by exciting innovation, damaging cyberattacks, periods of lulls and disruptive change. The biggest thing to happen to healthcare IT in 2017 was the advancement of the consumerization of healthcare, and the changing discourse around the patient as a consumer.

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Health IT Interoperability Medicare Healthcare IT 67

FierceHealthIT

AUGUST 17, 2020

Judge throws out Heritage Valley Health System's lawsuit against Nuance over 2017 malware attack. Mon, 08/17/2020 - 16:33.

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FierceHealthIT

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

In 2017, 19% of in-network claims were denied by issuers and consumers rarely appealed these denials, reported the Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF).

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Mobi Health News

MARCH 16, 2018

Voice assistants are on the rise among European physicians with more than half of those practicing in major European countries either interested in or actively using these technologies, according to survey data collected by DRG Digital | Manhattan Research.

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Digital Health 146

FierceHealthIT

OCTOBER 28, 2020

Aetna to pay $1M to OCR to settle 3 2017 HIPAA breaches. Wed, 10/28/2020 - 17:22.

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HIPAA 76

Mobi Health News

AUGUST 24, 2018

It's become an annual tradition for MobiHealthNews to parse Inc. Magazine's Inc 5,000 list of fastest growing companies in America, calling out the digital health and health tech companies that made the list. We found more companies than ever on this year's list, some you'll recognize and some you may not.

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Digital Health 236

FierceHealthIT

MARCH 4, 2018

Patients experienced an 11% increase in average out-of-pocket costs during 2017, rising from $1,630 in the fourth quarter of 2016 to $1,813 for the same period in 2017, according to a new TransUnion Healthcare analysis.

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FierceHealthIT

MARCH 28, 2019

Medicare made more than $23 billion in improper payments in 2017 due to insufficient documentation, according to a new Government Accountability Office (GAO) report. The GAO also found that Medicaid paid out more than $4 billion for services that were not fully or properly documented.

Medicare 79

Medicare 79

ACA Times

JANUARY 26, 2021

3 minute read: The IRS has begun issuing Letter 5005-A, Information Return Penalty Notice (Form 1094-C or 1095-C) (“Letter 5005-A”), for the 2017 tax year, demonstrating their efficiency at identifying ACA non-compliance and intensifying enforcement efforts. For questions about the ACA contact us here.

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Insulin Nation

OCTOBER 31, 2016

Upon completion of this study, Beta Bionics expects to undertake the pivotal trial necessary for its FDA clearance application in 2017. The first arm of that trial, to start in mid 2017, will involve delivery of insulin only. An NIH grant, and a start-up investment by Eli Lilly have raised an additional $21.5

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Mobi Health News

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Rock Health's latest report highlights that higher value deals, not increased frequency, are driving the record funding.

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Digital Health 200

HealthStream

JULY 26, 2019

Looking at healthcare in 2017 and beyond, it’s likely that the worlds of physicians and post-acute care are going to be seriously disrupted.

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BHM Healthcare Solutions

JULY 2, 2019

Two-thirds of drug deaths around the world were caused by opioids in 2017, and that proportion was even higher in the U.S., The report found that 110,000 of 167,000 deaths from drug use disorders stemmed from opioids in 2017. overdose deaths spiked to 70,237 in 2017, up 10.4 Over 53 million people used opioids worldwide in 2017.

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Medicare 40

FierceHealthIT

JULY 31, 2018

Something happened in 2017 that hasn’t occurred in more than a decade: Physician compensation and productivity did not meaningfully increase.

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Mobi Health News

APRIL 12, 2018

Lending an ear. Planned Parenthood recently announced that it’s Chat/Text program, which connects young people with sexual or reproductive health questions to trained health educators, has facilitated more than one million text or instant message conversations.

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Digital Health 113

FierceHealthIT

MARCH 13, 2020

In the midst of an otherwise unsettling week on the health front, researchers provided a glimmer of good news: Cancer deaths have continued to drop.

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Medical Mime - EHR

AUGUST 28, 2018

That is almost 200 people dying every day in 2017. 2017: 72,287 (+11.3%) – estimate. This death toll is staggering – the equivalent of a passenger jet crashing every day for an entire year. As we wrote in a previous post on the Drug Overdose Death Epidemic , here are the growth rates for the last few years: 2014: 47,055.

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FierceHealthIT

OCTOBER 23, 2019

More healthcare payments flowed through advanced payment models in 2018 compared to 2017, as payers are showing growing enthusiasm for such models, a new report said.

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FierceHealthIT

MAY 4, 2018

We took a deep dive into financial filings of the country's top eight insurers to break down exactly how much CEOs brought home last year and how that compares to employee salaries.

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American Well

DECEMBER 4, 2016

Preparing for 2017. As the year comes to a close and healthcare organizations prepare for 2017, telehealth success initiatives are expected to remain high on the list of priorities. The post Steps to Telehealth Success – Preparing for 2017 appeared first on American Well. Steps to Telehealth Success. By: Albert Ferreira.

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Telehealth Telemedicine 48

Mobi Health News

DECEMBER 12, 2021

The training programme was first developed in 2017 by an Australian cardiologist together with Janssen Pharmaceuticals.

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Pharmaceuticals 280

South Central Telehealth Resource Center

OCTOBER 24, 2017

Senate on September 14, 2017. The post Telehealth and the CHRONIC Act of 2017 (S. The CHRONIC Act – Creating High-Quality Results and Outcomes Necessary to Improve Chronic Care Act – passed the U.S. The act, which is now being reviewed in the U.S. To learn more, check out the fact sheet provided below.

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Telehealth Medicare Accountable Care Telemedicine 57

ACA Times

DECEMBER 22, 2016

For both policies and plans ending on or after October 1, 2016 and before October 1, 2017, the fee has been adjusted to $2.26 Said fee for the coming year must be paid by July 31, 2017 along with the filing of Form 720. Another fee, the Transitional Reinsurance Fee, saw great decreases over the years before being ceased for 2017.

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ACA Times

JUNE 14, 2019

1 minute read: IRS staff has confirmed that the IRS is issuing Letter 226J penalty notices for the 2017 tax year. We have updated our guide specifically for the 2017 tax year to help employers prepare for this new round of penalty notices. If you receive a Letter 226J, you have 30 days to respond.

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ACA Times

OCTOBER 19, 2017

In yet another sign that the IRS will be enforcing the Affordable Care Act, the IRS’s ACA Information Center for Taxpaying Professionals is providing updated guidance that it will require taxpayers to provide an indication of whether they had healthcare coverage in 2017, as required by the ACA, when electronically filing 2017 tax returns.

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ACA Times

OCTOBER 3, 2017

The IRS continues to prepare for employers to file ACA-mandated information with the IRS for the 2017 tax year. You can view the 2017 forms at these links: 2017 Form 1094-C. 2017 Form 1095-C. The IRS has issued the filing schedule for reporting ACA-mandated employee data for the 2017 tax year.

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ACA Times

MAY 24, 2019

3 minute read: The IRS has started issuing new penalty notices to employers that failed to file forms 1094-C and 1095-C with the federal tax agency or furnish 1095-C forms to employees for the 2017 tax year as required by the Affordable Care Act. For questions about the ACA contact us here.

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KevinMD

APRIL 15, 2019

To best frame telehealth and its use cases, the National Quality Forum published a report in 2017, outlining the following four buckets which I find especially useful with evaluating programs and interventions: access […]. Find jobs at Careers by KevinMD.com. Search thousands of physician, PA, NP, and CRNA jobs now.

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Telemedicine Telehealth Primary Care Mobile Health 417

Mobi Health News

APRIL 7, 2020

From 2000 to 2017, the number of registered clinical trials featuring CGMs, apps and other connected devices rose at a 34% CAGR, according to new data from Harvard researchers.

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ACA Times

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

Health plans and issuers that maintain an annual open enrollment period must use the updated templates beginning on the first day of the first open enrollment starting on or after April 1, 2017. While Forms 1094-C and 1095-C are still in draft form, if approved, they too will go into effect for 2017.

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