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'People should worry:' ACA in limbo after Ruth Bader Ginsburg's passing
Backers of the Affordable Care Act fear the new balance on the Supreme Court imperils its survival, but optimists look to where two conservative justices sit on the issue of severability.
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Georgia practice to pay $1.5M after hacker accessed thousands of patient records
The group calling itself The Dark Overlord used a vendor's credentials and attempted to sell the data, including medical procedures and other personal information, online.
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Microsoft Teams integrates with EHRs for provider telehealth
Epic will be the first EHR to offer Teams in its portal, with support for other systems "coming soon," Microsoft said.
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Sam's Club, 98point6 to sell telehealth slightly pricier than vendor's DTC product
Walmart's retail warehouse club said its subscription was a bit more expensive because members can purchase it quarterly instead of annually, and it includes pediatric care.
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Walmart details Health superstore expansion, one year after pilot
The retail giant currently has six locations up and running, and plans to open seven more in Georgia by the end of 2020, two in Chicago this fall and seven in Florida next year.
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Radiation oncologists push back on new CMS payment model
The agency expects the value-based payment structure set to begin Jan. 1 will save Medicare $230 million over five years, but a trade group of providers is calling for a delay due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Ascension posts $1B net loss for 2020
By the final month of its fiscal year, the giant nonprofit was staring to recapture a larger share of its patients — and outpacing pre-pandemic levels in one instance.
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HCA nurse union win called 'breakthrough' in long-sought North Carolina
The vote marks the first private sector hospital union election victory in the state and the largest at any nonunion hospital in the South since 1975, according to National Nurses United.
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Trump admin unveils final mandatory kidney care payment model
Forced participation in the ESRD model, where CMS will identify providers in randomly selected regions to take part, drew industry ire when it was first proposed one year ago.
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Google-backed Amwell prices upsize IPO above range at $18
Before its NYSE debut on Thursday, Amwell increased the price and number of shares, locking in the Boston-based telehealth vendor's valuation at nearly $4.1 billion.
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Hospitals charge privately insured patients 250% more than those on Medicare. The gap is growing.
A RAND study of charge data from more than 3,000 hospitals points the finger at growing provider consolidation as a key culprit, but the AHA slammed the report as "based on a cherry-picked and limited dataset."
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'We feel bullish': Payers look ahead to 2021
Top execs at the biggest commercial insurers outlined shifting strategic priorities and growth opportunities in light of the COVID-19 recession at Morgan Stanley's annual healthcare conference last week.
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Fewer than half of healthcare institutions met national cybersecurity standards last year
NIST standards for managing and protecting businesses against cyber attacks include five key tenets: identify, protect, detect, respond and recover. CynergisTek found declines among its clients in all but one of those in 2019.
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In COVID-19's wake, hospitals look to hybrid model with in-person, virtual care on equal footing
Comments throughout the AHA conference reflected a clear agreement that not only is telehealth here to stay, but it's also going to be at the heart of care delivery going forward.
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Medical services costs for telehealth could swell to $106B by 2023, vendor predicts
Doximity's report estimates about 20% of all medical visits will be conducted virtually this year, and found particular interest in virtual care from the chronically ill population.
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Cigna rebrands health services division, including Express Scripts, as Evernorth
The move is an evolution for the Cigna-Express Scripts tie-up completed in late 2018, as the combined entity looks to spur more interest in its products from third parties.
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Uninsured rate rose to 9.2% in US last year, pre-COVID-19 recession
The high cost of U.S. healthcare continues to stress the country's economic outlook overall. About 7.7 million more Americans would be considered low-income if their medical bills were factored in, the U.S. Census Bureau said.
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OCR settles with 5 more providers on HIPAA right of access violations
Three of the providers failed to give the patient medical records access until after a second complaint to the HHS Office of Civil Rights was submitted and validated.
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CMS innovation agency to launch risk-based model for dual eligibles
Along with the dual-eligible demonstration, CMMI head Brad Smith said Tuesday industry could expect some additional models to come out of the pipeline in the next few months.
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In deal with Apple, CVS clients get temporary access to new fitness feature
CVS CEO Larry Merlo also gave an update at Morgan Stanley's annual healthcare conference on its conversion of retail locations to HealthHUBs.
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CMS kills controversial Medicaid fiscal accountability rule
The rule proposed last year would have increased federal oversight of how states fund their Medicaid programs and potentially resulted in funding cuts for the cash-strapped program. Providers strongly opposed it.
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Hospital visits rebound, but some patients still need convincing
"Hospitals have managed infectious diseases since our inceptions — so we're experts at it," UW Health CEO Alan Kaplan said at an AHA conference this week, where sustaining telehealth momentum was also a hot topic.
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CMS to ax inpatient data in MA risk scoring by 2022
The proposed changes should be a net positive for Medicare Advantage players, resulting in a 0.25% rise in risk scores.
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FTC urges Texas regulators to block merger under COPA
The agency was blistering in its comments, warning regulators the deal would result in serious competitive and consumer harm in the form of higher prices, lower quality and diminished access to care and innovation.
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ACOs in Medicare Shared Savings Program post third year of savings
But the National Association of Accountable Care Organizations said only 5% of eligible ACOs took CMS’ offer on the Pathways to Success program structure early and instead chose to remain under the previous rules.
