Medicare’s excess readmission penalty policy (up to a 1% ding in IPPS Medicare payments to […]
Leverage: Preventable readmissions and a recent OIG advisory opinion
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Health insurance company member engagement index: The EveryMove 100
The EveryMove 100 index is a ranking of health plans across the US “based on how they engage with and empower consumers to manage their own health.”
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HIPAA Clarity: Do you have to sue HHS to get it?
“Serve a paper and sue me ….” Is this really the only way to get […]
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How do you get young invincibles to buy Obamacare? (No, really … how?)
President Barack Obama is pushing his signature domestic program, enrollment in a health insurance plan […]
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Medical marijuana in Massachusetts: Is the application process broken?
On January 31, the Massachusetts Department of Public Health announced that it had identified twenty […]
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HIPAA privacy and security compliance anniversary: Should You Care?
The HIPAA/HITECH Omnibus Rule became effective just over one year ago. The compliance date was […]
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AHRQ releases hospital readmission data for Medicare, Medicaid and private payers
Efforts to reduce hospital readmissions have been focused on a handful of diagnoses and on […]
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HIPAA: Liability to private parties for violations
This week, Connecticut joined at least nine other states (DE, KY, ME, MN, MO, NC, […]
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Anthem data breach reminds us: A patient ID is a pretty damn good idea
Anthem experienced a major data breach last week, and reportedly some records (Social Security Numbers […]
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The Meaningful Use Stage 3 API talk won’t matter if the tech isn’t ready
The Meaningful Use – Stage 3 proposed rule has been released, with official publication due […]
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N of 1 – Reflections on extracting knowledge from data
There is enormous untapped potential in the N-of-1 clinical trial.
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ACO performance update shows many struggle to learn from failures and successes
A number of the Pioneer ACOs dropped out of the program, so even the more “advanced” participants are not uniformly delivering the best possible results.
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Crowdfunding rule has been finalized: What do you need to know?
The health innovation crowdfunding crowd has been waiting for these rules for quite some time, as has the rest of the crowdfunding fan club. Was it worth the wait?
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If your healthcare data security is dirty then you’ll soon have a date with the FTC
Healthcare needs to recognize that enforcement action will continue, and compliance should be a key business objective.
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Precision medicine and health privacy are leading to a converged path around big data in healthcare
They want to harness “big data” to solve big problems in healthcare.
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It’s time to simplify health data regulation. Don’t hold your breath
Aside from the current congressional logjam, gridlock or whatever your preferred metaphor may be, consider the fact that we are now embarking upon the general election season, which tends to add an additional layer of grandstanding and substantive paralysis to the usual fever dreams of the Potomac.
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What you need to know about FTC guidance for collecting consumer health data
The Federal Trade Commission has issued new guidance to businesses that collect and share consumer health information.
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Appeals court rules that stolen laptops class action against payer can proceed
The theft of two unencrypted laptops from Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield put the personal health information of about 840,000 plan members at risk.
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What will be the impact of healthcare consolidation on primary care?
Health insurance companies are right to think that there is some magic that can happen when the relationships between payers and providers are rationalized. However, it is far from clear that what is good for the conglomerate is good for the patient.
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