What You Should Know:
- Today, the American Health Information Management Association® (AHIMA) unveiled its groundbreaking initiative, Data for Better Health™, at its annual conference, AHIMA23, in Baltimore, MD.
- The Data for Better Health initiative is poised to revolutionize the healthcare landscape by enhancing awareness of the transformative potential of social determinants of health (SDOH) data to improve health outcomes.
Data for Better Health Initiative
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Automation Fills Gaps Left by Revenue Cycle Talent Shortage
Healthcare providers are feeling the industry’s talent shortage in their administrative functions as well as clinical areas. One case in point: revenue cycle management. In a recent study, 63% of healthcare providers reported an inability to fill key revenue management roles. Reduced revenues and cash reserves are almost inevitable when providers don’t have sufficient staff to follow up on claims, manage appeals and help patients understand their financial responsibilities and
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UnitedHealthcare Launches No Deductible Health Plan, Surest
What Should Know:
- UnitedHealthcare has announced the Surest™ health plan leads to more preventive care, improves satisfaction and lowers costs for members and employers.
- UnitedHealthcare’s Surest, which eliminates deductibles and offers upfront pricing information to people in advance of treatment, helps members more frequently access preventive care services and lower out-of-pocket costs, according to recent data.
- Hundreds of employers with a combined
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M&A: Netsmart Acquires Netalytics to Advance SUD Solutions
What You Should Know:
- Netsmart announced it has acquired Netalytics, a South Carolina-based addiction treatment software and practice management company, dedicated to developing technology for substance use disorder (SUD) providers focused on opioid addiction treatment.
- This acquisition will further extend the Netsmart CareFabric platform by enabling interoperable data sharing between opioid treatment program (OTP) facilities and the providers that treat and coordinate other
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Expectation vs. Reality: Improving the Patient Payment Experience
If you’ve ever worked behind the scenes at a provider organization, you likely gained a deep understanding of what makes medical practices tick, giving you the ability to make fairly accurate assumptions about how patients will probably behave in different scenarios. However, when it comes to the patient payment experience, inevitably some patients respond differently than expected.
Seasoned healthcare workers have likely experienced a number of common misconceptions about patients’
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PayZen Launches Care Card with Geisinger & UTMB
What You Should Know:
PayZen, a healthcare focused fintech company tackling healthcare affordability with AI-powered patient affordability solutions, today announced the release of its newest product, the PayZen Care Card, with its major launch partners Geisinger and University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB). PayZen uses advanced technology to solve healthcare affordability end-to-end, leading to happier, healthier patients, and improved financial outcomes for providers.
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Elation Health Unveils Unified EHR and Billing Solution for Primary Care
What You Should Know:
Elation Health, the clinical-first technology company powering innovation in primary care, today announced general availability of the industry’s first unified EHR and billing solution built to support high-value primary care. In an industry of overly complex software, Elation’s all-in-one technology is already delivering beyond the clinical experience to financial success in support of strengthening America’s fragile primary care system. For the growing list
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VA Awards Acentra Health $52.3M Contract for Claims Adjudication
What You Should Know:
- The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has awarded Acentra Health (formerly CNSI) a three-year, $52.3M contract to support claims adjudication, provider access, data analytics, and visualization for its Financial Services Center (FSC).
- The FSC contract includes the implementation of healthcare claims adjudication software based on Acentra Health’s eCAMS HCE™ platform to adjudicate, process and prepare for payment healthcare claims submitted by
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How Healthcare Organizations Can Defend Against Ransomware
There’s no denying it - the need for stronger cyber defense is urgent. More ransomware attacks targeted healthcare in 2022 than any other critical infrastructure sector, according to the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3). With attacks on healthcare negatively impacting patient care – including increased mortality rates - healthcare organizations must adopt proactive approaches to better protect their patients and sensitive information.
In the spring, the Multi-State Information
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Mass General Brigham, Concert Health Collaborate to Expand Behavioral Health Services for Primary Care
What You Should Know:
Concert Health, a leading behavioral health medical group, today announced a collaboration with Mass General Brigham, an integrated academic health care system, to expand behavioral health services delivered through primary care.The launch program will be rolled out in Mass General Brigham’s primary care facilities throughout Massachusetts, giving more than 400 primary care providers and their patients access to Concert Health’s behavioral health
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