Health

Bright Health Plan to expand into new markets in 2021

1 week ago Diana B. Mock

Vivid Wellness Plan announced nowadays its 2021 enlargement plan. It will extend obtain to its Medicare Edge, specific and loved ones plan products in select regions, as effectively as incorporate absolutely-insured small company ideas to its offered products in sure markets.

The enterprise will start out supplying the Medicare Edge, specific and loved ones ideas in 6 new regions in Florida, North Carolina and Illinois.

The specific and loved ones ideas will be prolonged into the Fort Lauderdale, Miami, Asheville, Greensboro and Raleigh-Durham markets, as effectively as Medicare Edge ideas in Fort Lauderdale. The enterprise will improve its existing Chicago

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CMS issues its first proposal to continue telehealth flexibilities, in home health proposed rule

2 weeks ago Diana B. Mock

For the very first time, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is proposing to make short term telehealth provisions less than COVID-19 permanent.

CMS has issued a proposed rule to make permanent regulatory alterations to telecommunications systems in furnishing care less than the Medicare residence well being reward beyond the expiration of the community well being crisis for the COVID-19 pandemic.

The rule proposes to permanently finalize, commencing January 1, 2021, the amendment to the residence well being regulations outlined in a March thirty interim final rule responding to the COVID–19 community well being crisis.

This implies that residence

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Health systems need to change how they look at waste to reduce costs, expert says

2 weeks ago Diana B. Mock

Wellbeing units want to rethink how they perspective wasteful methods to cut down charges, according to Rhonda Stewart, the senior transformation sensei at the Virginia Mason Institute.

“What I want to speak about is to ideally inspire [health and fitness units] to imagine about cutting down charges in another way,” she stated in a session at the Health care Money Administration Affiliation digital Yearly Convention. “Not to do the same previous detail that we’ve usually carried out … but by actually obtaining centered advancement pursuits that remove squander.”

Doing away with squander can be carried out in any of the

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Advocate Aurora Health, Beaumont Health explore merger

3 weeks ago Diana B. Mock

Advocate Aurora CEO Jim Skogbergh and Beaumont CEO John FoxAdvocate Aurora CEO Jim Skogbergh and Beaumont CEO John Fox

Advocate Aurora Well being and Beaumont Well being are checking out a possible merger that would develop a dominant overall health program across Michigan, Wisconsin and Illinois.

Adhering to approval very last week by the Boards of Directors, both organizations now signed a non-binding letter of intent that paves the way to deeper discussions. Executive leadership from both mentioned talks are in early levels.

The partnership would be an asset merger fairly than a sale that would form a $seventeen-billion nonprofit healthcare facility program in the three states, according to

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University of Virginia Health System emphasizing community-first approach to social determinants

1 month ago Diana B. Mock

The COVID-19 coronavirus is generating a wealth of health-relevant hardships for healthcare shoppers, and, even though infection is of course at the leading of that checklist, there are several secondary challenges ensuing from the pandemic, specially when it comes to social determinants of health. The virus’ unfold is exacerbating these SDOH challenges, but the College of Virginia Overall health System is discovering techniques to handle them by emphasizing a community-initially method.

The strategic decision to associate with community businesses arrived in 2018. Leadership at the method noticed that there was a immediate connection involving SDOH and length of stay for

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