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A Stat review says that digital therapeutics is stagnating in the US, as evidenced by vendor bankruptcies and lack of Medicare coverage for their products.
The authors note that Pear Therapeutics shut down…
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ACO REACH Challenging to Succeed in First Year But Tools Can Help – MedCity News
With the push towards health equity and away from a fee-for-service model of healthcare, risk-bearing organizations have an opportunity to join the ACO REACH (Realizing Equity, Access, and Community Health) program. In the program,…
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Turquoise Health Raises $30M for its Price Transparency Software – MedCity News
Hospitals’ compliance with price transparency laws has increased significantly in the past year, with most hospitals currently displaying the cost data they need to in order to adhere to the regulations. That wasn’t always…
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CMS Unveils “Innovation in Behavioral Health” Model
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– The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has taken a bold step towards improving care for individuals with both mental health conditions and substance use disorders (SUD), announcing the…
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How to Overcome the New Realities in Home Health Budget Strains – MedCity News
When the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) revealed its CY 2024 final payment rule, home health providers once again faced a familiar fiscal challenge. A 2.89% cut to Home Health –…
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CMS Finalizes New Interoperability and Prior Authorization Rule
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The Biden-Harris Administration has finalized a new rule that streamlines the prior authorization process and improves health data exchange across the healthcare system. The CMS Interoperability and Prior Authorization Final Rule…
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CMS Releases Interoperability and Prior Authorization Final Rule
By Hannah Nelson
January 17, 2024 – The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has finalized the CMS Interoperability and Prior Authorization Final Rule (CMS-0057-F).
The rule outlines requirements to streamline health information exchange (HIE) and prior…
More Than a Survey: How to Holistically Embrace the Patient Experience – MedCity News
Decades.
That’s how long healthcare organizations have been surveying patients to understand their experiences and how they match up with care delivery. The drive to measure patient experience (PX) started in the 1990s, but patient…
CMS Revolutionizes Reimbursement for RefleXion’s SCINTIX Therapy
CMS’s new national payment rate and unique reimbursement codes signal a transformative shift in radiotherapy reimbursement, removing barriers to the clinical adoption of RefleXion’s SCINTIX biology-guided radiotherapy. The breakthrough approach, utilizing emissions from cancer…
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ONC should tailor info blocking disincentives to provider types, groups say
More organizations are releasing their comments to the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and Office of the Inspector General on the proposed federal rule to establish…
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