Payer News in Review 2022 – Special Edition
Notable 2022 news being reported on payers and the health insurance industry.
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The Impact of Food Insecurity in Value-Based Care
By Brian Conrad BSN RN – Food insecurity and low nutritional awareness contribute to multiple chronic health conditions in patients across the United States. Some diseases linked to food insecurity include hypertension (high blood pressure), diabetes, coronary heart failure, and kidney disease, just to name a few.
CRISPR for the Revenue Cycle: What the ‘Digital Twin’ Means for RCM
By Jim Dumond – CRISPR is a gene-editing technology that enables scientists to chemically snip out and rearrange genetic sequences to alter DNA, often with the goal of eliminating hereditary diseases. The technology holds enormous implications for our ability to…
Health the Only Bright Spot in Report on ESG Investment Priorities
By David Burda – Like I mentioned in a previous blog post, I didn’t know jack about ESG until someone asked me about it, and I looked it up to appear like I knew what I was talking about. If you read that post, you’d know ESG stands for environmental, social and governance.
Revenue Cycle and Payer News – December 7, 2022
Latest news being reported on payers and the health insurance industry including news from Sesame, Angle Health, United Healthcare, Blue Cross Blue Shield Association, CVS Health, Humana, AHIP, Oscar Health, and more.
Hospitals’ Mandate for Technology
By BJ Schaknowski – As widely reported and acutely felt, in 2022 health systems are broadly on track to post their worst financial results in decades. That fact is all the reminder we need that healthcare organizations are businesses with exposure to macro-economic headwinds and tailwinds, like any other.
Reimbursement Getting in the Way of Value
By Matt Fisher – Remote patient monitoring (the very impersonal nature of that phrase will not be discussed right now) has risen to the forefront in many discussions about how virtual care positively impacts the delivery of healthcare.
Caring for What’s Been Coded
By Dr. Jay Anders – In a Forbes Technology Council article earlier this year, my colleague Medicomp CEO Dave Lareau discussed how the industry was abuzz with talk about how providers and health plans can “optimize” risk-adjusted payments for Medicare Advantage, and the associated “upcoding” to qualify for higher risk scores.
Revenue Cycle and Payer News – November 9, 2022
Latest news being reported on payers and the health insurance industry including news from Cohere Health, Humana, Cedar, CareSource, AHIP, UnitedHealthcare, Independence Blue Cross, CVS Health, Humana, Medica, Cigna, and more.