Pelago, a digital clinical partner to U.S. businesses and health plans for substance use management, announced $58 million in new funding that now brings total funding to $151 million, which will be used to expand offerings for payers and employers. The additional capital will help Pelago accelerate its product roadmap, extend its continuum of care […]
A new draft 2024–2030 Federal Health IT Strategic Plan has been released by the Department of Health and Human Services through the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC), which outlines federal health IT goals that are focused on improving access to health data.
Dallas-based Tenet Healthcare Corporation has completed the sale of six hospitals in California, the organization said this week.
Hospice providers get a 2.6% increase in 2025 the proposed rule released by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. This represents an estimated increase of $705 million in payments from 2024. The increase results from the 3% market basket percentage increase reduced by a 0.4 percentage point productivity adjustment.
INFRAM 2024 adds complex content of cybersecurity, infrastructure, IT management, performance and adoption and clinical outcomes, says Dr. Farukh Usmani, medical director of digital technology services at Intermountain, the first-ever organization to attain Stage 7 validation.
People are demanding more, and they want a way to hack the system, says patient advocate and 2024 Changemaker Award recipient Grace Cordovano, cofounder of Unblock Health.
Jaja Okigwe is CEO of First Choice Health, headquartered in Seattle. The company is a benefits administration business that has one of the largest direct-contracted networks in the Upper West with nearly one million members in its network. It’s a provider-owned venture, created by hospitals and physician groups as an alternative to traditional health insurance, […]
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has issued a proposed rule to update Medicare payment policies and rates for the Inpatient Psychiatric Facilities Prospective Payment System (IPF PPS) for fiscal year 2025, with CMS proposing to update the payment rates by 2.7%.
Large language models need an underlying process for clinical notes to trigger a lab test, prescription or other recommendation, says Dr. Jay Anders, CMO at Medicomp Systems.
Skilled nursing facilities get a 4.1% payment increase for 2025, according to a proposed rule released by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services under the Skilled Nursing Facility