How Rural Hospitals Are Benefiting from Remote Patient Monitoring
Patients who live in rural areas incur a variety of costs attributed to physically getting into the office to meet with their doctor when the need arises.
Medicare Patients Received 54.5M Office Visits Via Telehealth in 2020
Office visits represented 48 percent of all telehealth services used in the first year of the pandemic, making it the service most accessed via telehealth, federal data shows.
Data Media Associates, LLC and i3 Verticals Healthcare Partner to Improve Patient Statement Solutions to Facilitate Revenue Flow
Press Release – Data Media Associates, LLC today announced a strategic partnership with i3 Verticals Healthcare.
CMS Unveils Five New Efficiency Models
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is asking for feedback from stakeholders on five proposed cost-efficiency models as part of the Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) program. The deadline to respond is March 25, 2022.
Credit Reports Showed $88B in Past-Due Medical Debts in 2021
When past-due medical bills appear on consumer credit reports, individuals may face difficulties finding jobs, securing housing, and accessing additional healthcare services.
RISE 2022: Humana aims to use data from Fitbit to help some Medicare Advantage members predict adverse events
Humana is working toward using Fitbit devices it has distributed to Medicare Advantage plan members to help track data on chronic conditions and to encourage healthy behaviors, a top executive said.
Amazon using its scale, consumer focus to reimagine primary care, Care Medical exec says
When Mishra’s mother became sick in 2011, she experienced firsthand the difficulties of navigating the healthcare system and saw opportunities to rethink the patient experience.
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau examines pitfalls in US medical billing
The U.S. medical billing system allows room for common mistakes and has barriers to them getting resolved, a new report by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has revealed.
How Did the 2021 E&M Guidelines Impact your Coding?
Validating the shift to higher office visit levels and the impact of the 2021 E&M guidelines.
Between 2019 and the end of 2021, a lot changed. Not only did the COVID-19 pandemic impact the way in which physicians and hospitals saw patients, but the introduction of the new 2021 Evaluation and Management (E&M) guidelines was an additional disruption in the middle of the existing disruption.
Primary care physician turnover costs payers almost $1B every year, study finds
Turnover among primary care physicians cost public and private payers $979 million annually, according to a new American Medical Association-backed study published in Mayo Clinic Proceedings.
