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3 Keys to CVS Health’s Growth Strategy
CVS Health’s strategic priorities are in care coordination and chronic-disease management, health IT and home health especially bear watching as the nation’s health system continues to transform.
What’s Next for Unitedhealth and Optum after $5.4 Billion Acquisition of Home Care Provider?
UnitedHealth Group’s Optum is making another significant push into care delivery after its recent $5.4 billion merger agreement with home care company LHC Group. The question now is: What’s next for Optum?
AHA Comments to the CMS Urging Changes to MA Prior Authorization Requirements for Public Health Emergencies
AHA encourages the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to work with Congress to require Medicare Advantage plans to waive prior authorization and other utilization management policies during public health emergencies, especially for hospitals transferring patients to post-acute care.
Administration to establish minimum staffing ratio for nursing homes
In tonight’s State of the Union address, President Biden is expected to announce plans to establish new minimum staffing ratios for nursing homes.
Alert with Model Letter on CMS Medicare Advantage RFI on Prior Authorization for Hospital Transfers
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Jan.
Model Letter on Medicare Advantage RFI on Prior Authorization for Hospital Transfers
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Jan. 12 released a proposed rule for the Medicare Advantage program, which includes a request for information (RFI) on prior authorization for hospital transfers to post-acute care settings during a public health emergency. The AHA has developed a model comment letter that hospitals and health systems can use to assist with submitting their own comments in response to the RFI.
Hospitals at Home with UnityPoint Health
The hospital at home model of care is emerging as an important strategy to improve value during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond.
3 Critical Health Care Focus Areas for 2022
Health care providers face a reality that was unimaginable a couple of years ago. Service lines continue to be interrupted by COVID-19, with no end in sight. These and other trends have sped up health care transformation. And while the future appears anything but clear, thought leaders have issued a slew of predictions and analyses about what executives should be taking away from the current trends.
Fact Sheet: Viable Unified Post-acute Care Payment Model Not Possible Under Current Approach
The unified post-acute care (PAC) payment system required by the Improving Medicare Post-Acute Care
Transformation (IMPACT) Act of 2014 is not on track to protect access to medically necessary PAC services.
Case Study: Sky Lakes Medical Center: How Becoming a “Blue Zone” Advanced the Health of Klamath Falls, Oregon
Sky Lakes Medical Center (SLMC), located in Klamath Falls, Oregon, is a rural, not-for-profit, community-owned, internationally accredited acute-care teaching hospital.