Aspirion Announces Acquisition of FIRM Revenue Cycle Management Services, Inc.
Aspirion, a leading technology-enabled healthcare revenue cycle management (RCM) provider for complex claims and revenue integrity, announced today that it has acquired FIRM Revenue Cycle Management Services, Inc. (FIRM RCM), a trusted partner to hospital systems in the recovery of denied, unpaid, and underpaid medical insurance claims. As part of the announcement, the FIRM RCM team will continue to be led by Nancy Momcilovic. Simultaneously, Joseph Cook, Principal, will retire from active management following the completion of the acquisition. The acquisition closed on May 18, 2023.
“We are thrilled to welcome FIR...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - June 5, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT Amy Amick Aspirion FIRM RCM FIRM Revenue Cycle Management Services Inc. Health IT Acquisitions Healthcare M&A Joseph Cook Nancy Momcilovic Richard Thomas Source Type: blogs
Case of the Week 718
Welcome back to our first case of the month, with a special case from Idzi Potters and theInstitute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp. The following structures were found in a bronchoalveolar lavage from a middle-aged Belgian patient with asthma who presented with increased shortness of breath. He reports no travel out-of-country and works as an administrator at an insurance company. He recently reported an insect infestation in his home.Video credits are for Monique Vatlet (CHU Ambroise Par é, Mons, Belgium).Identification? (Source: Creepy Dreadful Wonderful Parasites)
Source: Creepy Dreadful Wonderful Parasites - June 5, 2023 Category: Parasitology Source Type: blogs
Weekly Roundup – June 3, 2023
Welcome to our Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup. Each week, we’ll be providing a look back at the articles we posted and why they’re important to the healthcare IT community. We hope this gives you a chance to catch up on anything you may have missed during the week.
Healthcare Innovation: Disrupting Traditional Models and Understanding Regulations. We asked the Healthcare IT Community to talk to us about what it takes to stand out and get your innovation funded. It’s important to address a meaningful need, find collaborators in the pharma or provider markets, and validate proof points for customers and regulat...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - June 3, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Brian Eastwood Tags: Healthcare IT Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup Source Type: blogs
The revolutionary Kaiser-Geisinger deal: How health care giants are reshaping the industry and empowering patients
Health care’s most recent billion-dollar deal took the industry by surprise, leaving medical experts and hospital leaders grappling to comprehend its implications. In case you missed it, California-based Kaiser Foundation Health Plan and Hospitals, which make up the insurance and facilities half of Kaiser Permanente, announced the acquisition of Geisinger, a Pennsylvania-based health system once
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The revolutionary Kaiser-Geisinger deal: How health care giants are reshaping the industry and empowering patients originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - June 2, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Robert Pearl, MD Tags: Policy Public Health & Policy Source Type: blogs
Healthcare Innovation Funding – Regulations and Disrupting Traditional Models
We are at an exciting time in the world of healthcare! With technology becoming more accessible and more and more digital natives entering the work force, there’s an abundance of innovation. We have so many more people that are coming up with creative digital solutions to the challenges that we are currently facing. However, while there are plenty of great ideas and startups, there’s just simply not enough money to fund all of them.
So how do you make sure that you’re the one getting the funding you need and not another startup? Oftentimes, the answer lies within making yourself stand out, and a great wa...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - June 2, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Lynn Tags: C-Suite Leadership Health IT Company Healthcare IT Regulations Bill Charnetski Ceteri Capital Debiopharm Derek Streat DexCare Frederico Ferreira Braga Healthcare Disruption Healthcare Innovation Funding Jay Ackerman Microsoft P Source Type: blogs
Knowing Your Patient: Helping Healthcare Organizations Prevent Insurance Fraud
The following is a guest article by Bala Kumar, Chief Product Officer at Jumio
The list of responsibilities for a CISO in healthcare is constantly growing. Today’s threat landscape requires them to plan for ransomware and malware attacks, protect against traditional vulnerabilities in legacy equipment, and mitigate the risk of internal threats.
With those competing priorities, fraud prevention does not always make its way to the top of the list of considerations, even when it should. According to the National Health Care Anti-Fraud Association, fraud costs the U.S. healthcare industry more than $50 billion each year. ...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - June 2, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Author Tags: Ambulatory C-Suite Leadership Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System IT Infrastructure and Dev Ops LTPAC Security and Privacy Bala Kumar CISO Healthcare Fraud Identity Fraud Jumio Know Your Customer Know Your Source Type: blogs
Podcast Episode Recommendation: Dear Diabetes Podcast with hostess Rene é Rayles Episode 7
The Dear Diabetes Podcast with hostess Rene é Rayles is a relatively new podcast covering the subject of diabetes; it began quite recently on March 29, 2023. However, Reneé Rayles recently interviewed Civica, Inc. ' s current CEO Ned McCoy. Recall that on June 1, 2023, Ned McCoy succeeded Martin VanTrieste as Civica ' s President and CEO (see the press release athttps://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20220524005169/en/Civica-Announces-Leadership-Transition for details). She spoke with Mr. McCoy about the company ' s affordable insulin biosimilar effort, which is proceeding according to planCivica has released...
Source: Scott's Web Log - June 2, 2023 Category: Endocrinology Tags: 2023 Civica CivicaRx CivicaScript Dear Diabetes Podcast podcast episode recommendations Rene é Rayles Source Type: blogs
Is chaos in health care leading us towards socialized medicine? How physician burnout is a catalyst.
A recurring theme expressed by many contributors and commentators to KevinMD is physician burnout. It is generally accepted that chaos causes burnout. There is no shortage of chaos in the practice of medicine: emotional, physical, personal, professional, and political stresses, not to mention the threat of lawsuits and the cost of liability insurance. This is
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Is chaos in health care leading us towards socialized medicine? How physician burnout is a catalyst. originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - June 2, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Howard Smith, MD Tags: Physician Public Health & Policy Source Type: blogs
Humira Biosimilar Gross-to-Net Pricing Bubble Was Preceded by the Same Pricing Bubble Burst for Insulin Just Months Ago
Today ' s post is not about diabetes per se, although there IS a diabetes connection. But this morning, the big news was that a biosimilar of Abbvie ' s blockbuster anti-inflammatory biologic Humira will be sold byMark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Company (see the press release athttps://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2023/06/01/2680351/33333/en/Mark-Cuban-Cost-Plus-Drug-Company-joins-forces-with-Coherus-to-make-YUSIMRY-a-HUMIRA-biosimilar-available-to-patients.html for more) at what amounts to an 85% discount to the innovator drug. Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Company announced the Humira biosimilar on social media today. See th...
Source: Scott's Web Log - June 1, 2023 Category: Endocrinology Tags: 2023 Abbvie Biosimilar drug discounts gross-to-net bubble Humira insulin Source Type: blogs
Healthcare Cybersecurity Is Difficult to Maintain, How a Security Operations Center Can Help
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Healthcare has topped the list of most breached industries for the past 12 years — a dubious distinction. While hospitals and health systems are taking cybersecurity more seriously, the type of breaches and their severity continue to increase, as evidenced by the large rise in hacking incidents.
An in-house or outsourced security operations center can help level the playing field for hospitals through a total environment approach designed to detect and remediate threats before they cause hospital systems to crash and patient care to be impacted. (Source: EMR and HIPAA)
Source: EMR and HIPAA - June 1, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Author Tags: Ambulatory C-Suite Leadership Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System IT Infrastructure and Dev Ops LTPAC Security and Privacy Cybersecurity Dark Web Monitoring DNS Domain Name System Event 4104 Extended Detectio Source Type: blogs
Why Trustworthy AI is Key to Preventing the Erosion of Trust at Scale
“With Artificial Intelligence we now have the ability to erode trust at scale”
Reggie Townsend, Vice President of Data Ethics at SAS made that statement to a room full of clients, data analysts, AI experts, and media at the SAS Innovate conference. That attention-grabbing line was Townsend’s opening to an engaging keynote on the need for “Trustworthy AI” and thoughtful incorporation of ethics into the AI conversation.
Healthcare IT Today had the opportunity to sit down one-on-one with Townsend to learn how SAS is infusing ethics and trustworthiness into their operations. We also wanted to hear more about the comp...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - May 31, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Colin Hung Tags: AI/Machine Learning Analytics/Big Data Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System elft University of Technology Erasmus MC Erasmus University Medical Center Health Equity Healthcare AI Healthcare AI Ethics Reggie Townse Source Type: blogs
Caremark's President Speaks at'Forum 2023 '
David Joyner is President& EVP of CVS ' Caremark PBM business. Caremark refers to that event and business as " Payor Solutions " whose website is athttps://payorsolutions.cvshealth.com/. Truth be told, CVS Caremark would rather patients whose insurance use Caremark as their PBM do not know what the PBM ' s executives say or do behind their veil of secrecy.On May 5, 2023, the Caremark PBM business of CVS Health hosted an event it called " Forum 2023 " , and Mr. Joyner gave a presentation on " What ' next for payors " . It was rather amusing that CVS Health said: " though the [PBM] system is working – from claim adjudi...
Source: Scott's Web Log - May 31, 2023 Category: Endocrinology Tags: 2023 Aetna Caremark CVS Caremark CVS Health David Joyner Payor Solutions Source Type: blogs
Denial
I don ' t remember offhand if I mentioned this in my previous post on the subject, but Sarah Palin ' s grotesque lie about " death panels " also contained a reference to a claim by conservative economist Thomas Sowell:The Democrats promise that a government health care system will reduce
the cost of health care, but as the economist Thomas Sowell has pointed out,
government health care will not reduce the cost; it will simply refuse to pay
the cost. And who will suffer the most when they ration care? The sick, the
elderly, and the disabled, of course. Sowell is obviously an ignorant idiot. As you presumably know...
Source: Stayin' Alive - May 30, 2023 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Health Equity In The AI And Digital Health Era: Promise or Peril?
This report estimated that poor health reduces global GDP by 15% each year.
On the flip side, equalizing healthcare access and quality has healthful effects on the economy at large. Digital technology could narrow the health equity gap by simplifying complex medical processes and removing travel barriers to healthcare access.
Figures indicate that underrepresented and/or disadvantaged (poor, rural, minority, women, LGBTQ, etc) groups have significantly less access to all the cutting-edge solutions digital health offers. Thus the gap is not only not closing, but it’s rather further widening right now.
W...
Source: The Medical Futurist - May 30, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andrea Koncz Tags: TMF Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Health Sensors & Trackers Personalized Medicine Telemedicine & Smartphones digital health literacy health equity digital health equity AI Source Type: blogs
The world is flat
This article also mentions the chemtrails absurdity.Climate change denial and chemtrails go back a long way, basically since right wing politics in the U.S. and Europe went batshit crazy. They obviously didn ' t like the Affordable Care Act, but the reasons they said they didn ' t like it were hallucinatory.Remember Sarah Palin and " death panels "?The America I know and love is not one in which my parents or my baby
with Down Syndrome will have to stand in front of Obama ' s ' death panel '
so his bureaucrats can decide, based on a subjective judgment of their ' level of productivity in society. 'That was a total ...
Source: Stayin' Alive - May 27, 2023 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
