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Jan 17, 2025 · Healthcare Innovation provides news and information on the policy, payment, operational, and strategic information technology issues facing senior leaders of hospitals, medical groups, and health systems.
CMS Reports on Performance Improvements by ACO REACH …
Nov 11, 2024 · In 2023, the 132 participants in the ACO REACH model generated $1.6 billion in gross savings and $695 million in net savings after accounting for shared savings and losses, according to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.
How eClinicalWorks is Democratizing AI and Helping Healthcare …
Dec 12, 2024 · Integrating AI Across Healthcare Processes. At the 2024 eClinicalWorks and healow National User Conference held in October, we introduced a series of AI-powered products and product enhancements to streamline clinical workflows, improve practice efficiencies, and enhance patient engagement and patient care. One key product launch was healow Genie, a first-of-its-kind, fully EHR-integrated AI ...
Peering Into 2025: Will Next Year Be AI’s Huge Breakthrough Year?
Dec 20, 2024 · Ø Also in November, Raths reported that “Washington University School of Medicine and BJC Health System, both located in St. Louis, have launched a joint Center for Health AI. A major focus of the center will be using AI to streamline workflows and administrative tasks, making healthcare more efficient. The center is the first major initiative to evolve from the new, long-term affiliation ...
ASTP Finalizes Scaled-Back HTI-2 Rule | Healthcare Innovation
Dec 11, 2024 · The Assistant Secretary for Technology Policy’s proposed HTI-2 rule had several ambitious components related to public health, imaging interoperability, USCDI Version 4, updated minimum standards code sets, bulk data, prior …
Five Health Plans Earn Five-Star Ratings From NCQA
Sep 17, 2024 · As the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) announced its 2024 Health Plan Ratings, only five out of 1,019 rated plans achieving the highest rating of five stars.
Congress Snips Key Healthcare Provisions from CR Before Passing It
Dec 22, 2024 · Working at a furious pace, Republican and Democratic members of the U.S. House of Representatives worked on Friday, Dec. 20, to resurrect a stopgap funding bill to keep the federal government open, and in the process, eliminated provisions long advocated by national associations, before passing a modified version of the bill and sending it on to the Senate and to the desk of President Joe ...
Medicare Advantage Provider to Pay Up To $98M to Settle False …
Dec 23, 2024 · In a press release published on December 20, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced that New York-based Independent Health has agreed to pay up to $98 million in violation of the False Claims Act by knowingly submitting invalid diagnosis codes to Medicare for Medicare Advantage plan enrollees to increase payment.. According to the news brief, Independent Health allegedly created a ...
Following Pilot, Ochsner to Expand Acute, Transitional Home Care ...
Nov 12, 2024 · A CMS report shows that OACN’s participating physicians and advanced practice providers lowered the expected cost of care by $30.9 million for the more than 58,000 Medicare beneficiaries in its care in 2023.
4 Large Health Systems Form Initiative to Enhance Core Operations
Oct 9, 2024 · Four large nonprofit health systems — Baylor Scott & White Health, Memorial Hermann Health System, Novant Health and Providence —have formed Longitude Health, an organization created to enhance core operational functions and transform health system performance. Although the press release announcing the new organization was light on detail, it said Longitude "will address healthcare’s ...