by Tim Rowan Coordinating the efforts of six different technology vendors may soon be a thing of the past for clients of Springfield, Missouri-based healthcare at home software and services provider HEALTHCAREfirst. The company has assembled all of its products and services into a bundle that it will be calling its “Solution Suite.” The pricing […]
by Jason Lewallen When business is slow and cash flow falters, many healthcare providers, like all business owners, face some tough choices. Simple math forces the business rule that financial outlays must be adjusted to match shrinking revenue. How an owner handles those critical moments often determines success or failure. Time after time, I see […]
By Tim Rowan, editor and publisher The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is seeking approval from the Office of Management and Budget to initiate a new “probable fraud measurement” pilot. The request is for permission to initiate another home health data collection mechanism but, to make OMB approval easier, CMS is classifying it not […]
ALEXANDRIA, Va., — On February 24, the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization and its affiliated organizations (National Hospice Foundation, Global Partners in Care, and Hospice Action Network) announced that President and Chief Executive Officer J. Donald Schumacher, PsyD, will retire at the end of 2016. Schumacher has been president and CEO of NHPCO since 2002. [Schumacher’s […]
Submitted by Jami Albro-Fisher, CIO Fazzi Associates Dear Editor, Thanks for the write-up on Hollywood Presbyterian. I agree that it is difficult or even impossible for users to recognize when an email is infected. The samples you provided will help. [The author provides several tips for avoiding/preventing ransomware attacks. based on personal experience as […]
by Tim Rowan SAN DIEGO, Calif.Feb. 22, 2016/PRNewswire/ — ResMed (NYSE:RMD), the world’s leading tech-driven medical device company and innovator in sleep-disordered breathing and respiratory care, today announced a definitive agreement to acquire privately held Brightree®, a leader in business management and clinical software applications for the post-acute care industry. This acquisition adds to
“It happened to me, and it could happen to you.” This lyric from the 60’s Supremes song, “The Happening” would be good to keep in mind when you read the story about a major hospital being hit by ransomware, the hacker attack that locks you out of your own data until you pay them an […]
By Tim Rowan, Publisher of Home Care Technology Report This week, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and America’s Health Insurance Plans, the insurance industry’s lobbying arm, as part of a broad Core Quality Measures Collaborative of health care system participants, released seven sets of clinical quality measures. These measures support multi-payer alignment, for […]
by Audrey Kinsella The CMS-directed Value-Based Purchasing (VBP) program is new to the healthcare at home service industry. But it is not at all unfamiliar to the much wider healthcare service delivery realm. The Home Health Value-Based Purchasing program model, about which CMS posted its final rule on November 5, 2015, leverages the successes of […]
by Elizabeth Hogue, Esq. Overpayments are defined as any funds that providers receive or retain under Title XVII of the Social Security Act to which providers, after applicable reconciliation, are not entitled. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has issued a final rule on return of overpayments by providers. Below are key requirements […]
