By Mark Melchionna
June 13, 2023 – Pandemic-era flexibilities expanded access to telemental healthcare services, but a new RAND Corporation study, obtained via email, showed that racial health disparities still persisted.
Particularly, the study showed that counties…
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A 2019 survey by the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation’s Office of Health Policy found that the highest rates of telehealth visits happened among people with Medicaid (29.3%) and Medicare (27.4%), Black individuals…
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Hospitals and health systems are facing financial challenges, while legislative proposals could further strain their resources and impact patient access to essential care. The American Hospital Association (AHA) is actively advocating against these proposals,…
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The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services aims to have all Medicare beneficiaries in a value-based arrangement by 2030. But achieving that will be a difficult undertaking, with just 12% of providers ready to…
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AWS this week announced three new enhanced FHIR features for Amazon HealthLake that offer health IT clients a fully-managed service to meet some of the most recent interoperability standards from the Centers for Medicare…
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What You Should Know:
Syntax Health, Inc., an NYC-based enterprise SaaS-based solution for health plans and providers that accelerates alignment in value-based care (VBC) launches out of Redesign Health with $7.5M in initial funding.Syntax Health’s…
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Karen Iapoce, Senior Director of Government Solutions at ZeOmega
On December 29, 2021, the Department of Health Care Services (DHCS) received approval of the CalAIM Section 1115 demonstration waiver, CalAIM Section 1915(b) waiver, and Medi-Cal…
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By Mark Melchionna
June 06, 2023 – Following a slight decline in February, telehealth use increased slightly in March at the national level and in two United States census regions, according to the FAIR Health Monthly…
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Tackling value-based care is crucial with the upcoming 2030 mandate by CMS. But it can be challenging for providers to deliver equitable care while hitting value-based care goals.Still, providers don’t have much of a…
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By Sarai Rodriguez
May 31, 2023 – MCNA Dental, a Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program service provider suffered a major healthcare data breach impacting over 8.9 million individuals, revealing their Social Security numbers and personal…
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