The PERM program measures improper payments in Medicaid through cyclical audits of state Medicaid programs. This brief explains the PERM program and its three component error rates as well as upcoming changes to PERM and possible state impacts.
Today’s patients want and deserve a more efficient and high-tech experience and the next generation of providers are no different. These upgrades can improve our productivity and enhance the quality of our patients’ lives. The post Disrupting Legacy Systems: Preparing for the Next Generation of Health Tech appeared first on MedCity News.
Stakeholders argue that proposed rule would cause disruption for over 1 million Medicare beneficiaries who rely on remote monitoring to manage chronic conditions
Prior authorization is a sore subject for payers and providers. So what if it went away? In a recent fireside chat hosted by MedCity News, Don Antonucci, CEO of Providence Health Plan, shared his thoughts. The post Video: What Would Happen If Prior Authorization Went Away? appeared first on MedCity News.
Organization’s CEO Aaron Carroll says that despite congressional funding, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality is not issuing new grants
This issue brief provides background on the GENEROUS model, examines the factors that will contribute to the model’s overall impact on Medicaid drug costs, and illustrates how savings will depend on model details that are confidential or uncertain at this time.
As clinicians, we learn not to be agreeable, we learn to challenge and sit in discomfort. We ask the hard questions underneath the one being asked. That is the work these tools are not yet built to do. The post AI in Mental Health: Why Clinicians Need to Be in the Room appeared first on…
Crothall Healthcare is honoring the recent passing of Environmental Services Training Director Edward (Ed) Virbitsky by renaming its EVS Training & Innovation Center at Allegheny Health Network (AHN) in Pittsburgh, PA for him. At a dedication ceremony held in June to honor Ed’s life and work, the facility was renamed the Edward D. Virbitsky Environmental…
BALTIMORE — In March in a McDonald’s parking lot off a busy street, mental health clinician Michala Williams met a 38-year-old woman in a car. “So, you called the police for help?” Williams asked the woman, who was sobbing uncontrollably and said she sometimes thinks about harming herself. She told Williams she has children ranging…
Fernando Viera Reyes necesitaba una biopsia por un posible cáncer de próstata cuando el gobierno de Trump lo envió a un centro de detención de inmigrantes en el desierto de Mojave, en California. Allí, esperó. Reyes, ahora de 51 años, solicitó reiteradas veces el procedimiento, según una demanda presentada en noviembre contra el gobierno federal,…