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Mashup Score: 1A CPT code for prior authorization? Here’s how it could happen - 2 hour(s) ago
UPDATED: Thursday, May 9 at 5:50 p.m. | A New York urologist believes prior auth CPT codes will realign incentives and better support patients and physicians.
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Mashup Score: 0Industry Voices—Nurses’ vital role in the success of AI - 2 hour(s) ago
For over a decade, I worked as a nurse in a Primary Stroke Center caring for critically ill cardiac and stroke patients. | Nurses—and the entire clinical and operational team—need to be involved in the vetting process early on to ensure that investments in new AI technology will improve their workflow and, most importantly, patient outcomes.
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Mashup Score: 1Ascension reports systems, clinical operations disrupted amid apparent 'cybersecurity event' - 3 hour(s) ago
Ascension disclosed Wednesday that it has detected “unusual activity” on some of its technology networks that it believes “is due to a cybersecurity event.” | The Catholic health giant said it detected “unusual activity” Wednesday and “immediately” activated remediation processes, including hiring a third-party cybersecurity firm.
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Medicare Advantage plans have come under fire for upcoding that can increase the payouts they receive, and regulators point to health risk assessments as a likely culprit in this increase in coding | Medicare Advantage plans have come under fire for upcoding that can increase the payouts they receive, and regulators point to health risk assessments as a likely culprit in this increase in coding intensity.
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Isabella Rosario Blum was wrapping up medical school and considering residency programs to become a family practice physician when she got some frank advice: If she wanted to be trained to provide | A new analysis shows that students graduating from U.S. medical schools were less likely to apply this year for residency positions in states with abortion bans and other significant abortion restrictions.
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Community Health Systems is the latest health system to allege that MultiPlan’s data-driven claims repricing business meets the bar for antitrust violation. | Community Health Systems is the third health system to allege that MultiPlan’s claims repricing business and deals with major payers are anticompetitive.
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Executives heading the country’s largest public for-profit health systems have largely seen their compensation recover in the wake of 2022’s missed performance goals and reduced payouts. According to annual proxy statements filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, the CEOs of HCA Healthcare, Tenet Healthcare, Universal Health Services and Community Health Systems received 2023 compensation packages ranging from $8.3 million to $21.3 million, up from last year’s spread of $6.3 million to $14.6 million. | Four of the country’s major health systems collectively paid their CEOs $62.6 million and their CFOs $25.6 million, both substantial increases over 2022.
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Mashup Score: 3Medicare hospital trust fund extended by 5 years to 2036 - 3 day(s) ago
The Hospital Insurance Trust Fund will be fully solvent for longer than previously projected, according to an annual Medicare Trustee report. | The Medicare Hospital Insurance Trust Fund won’t run out of money as quickly as expected. Here’s how federal officials are reacting.
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Mashup Score: 6Justice Department 'upping its game' on healthcare antitrust enforcement with new task force - 3 day(s) ago
The U.S. Department of Justice announced Thursday it has established a new task force to take on healthcare monopolies and collusion. | The U.S. Department of Justice announced Thursday it has established a new task force to take on healthcare monopolies and collusion.
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Mashup Score: 1Ascension reports systems, clinical operations disrupted amid apparent 'cybersecurity event' - 3 day(s) ago
Ascension disclosed Wednesday that it has detected “unusual activity” on some of its technology networks that it believes “is due to a cybersecurity event.” | The Catholic health giant said it detected “unusual activity” Wednesday and “immediately” activated remediation processes, including hiring a third-party cybersecurity firm.
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