Don ’ t Be Surprised If Your Doctor Starts Charging You for Email
Doctors are starting to charge for responding to email, and other offline tasks. Is it justified or just extra costs in an endless stream of medical bills?
It’s 6 pm and you might expect your doctor’s workday to be complete after a busy patient load. Yet for majority, work has just begun. It’s time to open their patient portal, review test results, answer piles of patient email. Then they do whatever needs to be done, like ordering more tests or consults.
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Patient portals have improved access to test results and physicians. Day or night, you can review yo...
Source: TIME: Health - March 19, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Robert Glatter and Jesse Pines Tags: Uncategorized freelance Source Type: news
Hacked health care giant makes progress in recovery, but concerns for small clinics remain
The health insurance billing system in the United States is stabilizing following an unprecedented cyberattack on a key company last month, but smaller health clinics may still need help to ensure they can stay in business, senior Biden administration officials said Monday after meeting with…#changehealthcares #changehealthcare #unitedhealthgroup #aha #colorado #oregon #hhs (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - March 18, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
UnitedHealth says it has made progress on recovering from a massive cyberattack
UnitedHealth Group is testing software for submitting medical claims as it continues to recover from a cyberattack that disrupted care billing systems (Source: ABC News: Health)
Source: ABC News: Health - March 18, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Health Source Type: news
Lago, a Paris-based open source billing platform, banks $22M
A startup out of Paris that began life building marketing tools has raised $22 million after making a successful pivot into billing — a space it discovered was even more broken among potential customers. Lago, developer of an open-source billing platform, has picked up the funding across two…#lago #mistralai #togetherai #anhthochuong #firstmark #signalfire #chuong #ycombinator #newwave #leefixels (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - March 14, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
DocStation and CPESN ® USA Enable Pharmacies Through Medical Billing Collaboration
Dynamic commitment to local, community-based pharmacies will simplify the connection with approved medical billing partners and continue to drive pharmacy practice forward with new medical billing and reimbursement intelligence AUSTIN, Texas, March 13, 2024 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ --... (Source: PRWeb: Medical Pharmaceuticals)
Source: PRWeb: Medical Pharmaceuticals - March 13, 2024 Category: Pharmaceuticals Tags: LIC Source Type: news
OneSpot Launches Insurance Billing Software to Fill Technology Gap in Eyecare
The cloud-based technology provides optometry practices with a clear view into their insurance billing operations while giving billers a centralized digital hub to manage their insurance billing process. CHICAGO, March 13, 2024 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- OneSpot announced today the official... (Source: PRWeb: Medical Pharmaceuticals)
Source: PRWeb: Medical Pharmaceuticals - March 13, 2024 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news
Evaluating a return on investment for virtual care
Various factors around ROI on virtual tech should be considered before implementation, such as billing revenue, increased efficiency, downstream revenue and improved outcomes, said experts at the HIMSS24 preconference Virtual Care Forum. (Source: mobihealthnews)
Source: mobihealthnews - March 11, 2024 Category: Information Technology Source Type: news
Konica to highlight Exa platform at HIMSS 2024
Konica Minolta Healthcare Americas plans to highlight the integration of its Exa platform with Amazon Web Services (AWS) HealthImaging at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) 2024 meeting in Orlando, FL.
Exa is an enterprise imaging, PACS, RIS, and billing package that includes Konica features such as server-side rendering, Diagnostic Zero Footprint Viewer. It will be offered as a platform as a service (PaaS) through AWS, Konica said. (Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines)
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - March 11, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: AuntMinnie.com staff writers Tags: Industry News Source Type: news
Medication madness: Health care providers are losing up to $1BN every day and patients are STILL struggling to access life-saving drugs after major hack last month
Hospitals, doctors and pharmacies are losing up to $1billion per day following the cyber attack on Change Healthcare, a billing agency half of America's healthcare industry relies on. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - March 11, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Konica Minolta Healthcare to Showcase Exa Platform in the Cloud with AWS HealthImaging at HIMSS 2024 Meeting
WAYNE, N.J., March 11, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Konica Minolta Healthcare Americas, Inc. announced today the new integration of the Exa® Platform with AWS HealthImaging (AHI). The Exa Platform is an Enterprise Imaging, PACS, RIS and Billing solution offering advanced features like Server-Side…#wayne #pacs #ris #serversiderendering #konicaminolta #ahi #exaplatform #aws #dicom #elasticache (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - March 11, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Largest Independent Primary Care Network in the U.S. Accused of Medicare Fraud
(MedPage Today) -- A Maryland firm that oversees the nation's largest independent network of primary care medical practices is facing a whistleblower lawsuit alleging it cheated Medicare out of millions of dollars using billing software "rigged... (Source: MedPage Today Public Health)
Source: MedPage Today Public Health - March 10, 2024 Category: American Health Source Type: news
‘We’re hemorrhaging money’: US health clinics try to stay open after unprecedented cyberattack
For more than two weeks, a cyberattack has disrupted business at health care providers across the United States, forcing small clinics to scramble to stay in business and exposing the fragility of the billing system that underpins American health care. “We’re hemorrhaging money,” said Catherine…#catherinereinheimer #philadelphia #changehealthcare #unitedhealth #hhs #meldavies #jesseehrenfeld #reinheimer #changehealthcares #richardpollack (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - March 9, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
With Cyberattack Fix Weeks Away, Health Providers Slam United
Hospitals, doctors and clinics expressed frustration that they will have to wait even longer for reimbursements after hackers paralyzed the largest U.S. billing clearinghouse. (Source: NYT Health)
Source: NYT Health - March 9, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Reed Abelson and Julie Creswell Tags: Health Insurance and Managed Care Hospitals Drugs (Pharmaceuticals) Cyberattacks and Hackers Drugstores Computers and the Internet UnitedHealth Group Inc Medicare Doctors ALPHV/BlackCat Federal Bureau of Investigation American Hospit Source Type: news
MedPAC Members Pan Rural Hospitals' 'Cost-Plus' Billing System for Medicare Patients
(MedPage Today) -- Rural hospitals' ability to bill fee-for-service Medicare patients and the uninsured on a "cost-plus" basis -- essentially setting their charges at whatever level they think is appropriate -- is untenable and must be changed... (Source: MedPage Today Public Health)
Source: MedPage Today Public Health - March 8, 2024 Category: American Health Source Type: news
From ‘morbid obesity’ to ‘major depression,’ the U.S.’ largest independent primary care network was exaggerating patient ailments to make more money,…
A Maryland firm that oversees the nation’s largest independent network of primary care medical practices is facing a whistleblower lawsuit alleging it cheated Medicare out of millions of dollars using billing software “rigged” to make patients appear sicker than they were. The civil suit alleges…#maryland #medicare #aledadeincs #khushwindersingh #seattle #singh #aledade #juliebataille #bethesda #farzadmostashari (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - March 5, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
