Artificial intelligence assistants could ease the transition to value-based care for primary care practices, a new report by Phyx Primary Care found. VBC can be administratively burdensome due to its enhanced reporting requirements. Primary care practices report that the transition to VBC is often long and results in a mix of VBC and fee-for-service billing practices.
Wednesday, Senators Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., and Mark Warner, D-Va., introduced a bill that would increase reimbursement for remote monitoring in rural areas. Representatives David Kustoff, R-Tenn., Mark Pocan D-Wis., Troy Balderson, R-Ohio, and Don Davis, D-N.C., also introduced the Rural Patient Monitoring Access Act in the House, which would expand access...
Amid market shifts and shallower pockets, health system leaders are restrategizing. Hospitals across the country are juggling new and ongoing financial pressures, increasing digital health initiatives and the need to provide high-quality care. On Monday during a session at thesymplrHealthcare Operations Summitin Chicago, hospital leaders discussed how they...
The Peterson Center on Healthcare released a new report that recommends policymakers narrow payment guidelines for a service they think could rocket spending in the public sector. The costs of remote monitoring on Medicare have grown significantly in the years since the codes became available to providers, from $6.8 million in 2019 to $194.5 million in 2023. The services can be...
In the absence of a federal framework to monitor the impact of artificial intelligence in the clinic, the Coalition for Health AI (CHAI) is stepping in on post-deployment oversight. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) lacks the capability to assess how models are performing in the real world after they are authorized for use by the agency. The failure to monitor AI products...
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) finalized an increase of the average benchmark payments to Medicare Advantage (MA) plans by 5.06%, or $25 billion, on Monday. It is nearly a three-percentage-point increase over the advance notice proposed in the waning days of the Biden administration and will be seen as favorable to payers. The CMS said this is due to the effective growth...
The amount of auditing of RPM companies has increased in the last two years, two lawyers told Fierce Healthcare, and the audits have gotten more aggressive and informed. The audits have ranged from mundane billing denials by Medicare Administrative Contractors (MACs) to criminal investigations by the Department of Justice (DOJ). But some RPM companies...
The Drug Enforcement Administration has pushed back(PDF) the effective dates of two rules that expand prescribing of buprenorphine via telehealth and controlled substance prescribing for patients at the Department of Veterans Affairs until December 31, 2025. The two telehealth final rules were supposed to go into effect on...
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has given a federal court the clearest look yet at the number of probationary workers fired under the Trump administration, and how many have been reinstated so far, but fired Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) employees say they have still not been contacted or provided a status update on their...
Oracle's federal electronic health record system experience a widespread outage on Tuesday March 4 that impacted VA medical facilities across the country, according to the Department of Veterans Affairs. All users of Oracle's federal EHR, including those at VA, Department of Defense, the U.S. Coast Guard, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration sites,...
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