An influx of patient portal messages during recent years is taking a toll on clinicians. As a result, at least 22 systems across the country have added a price tag to the subset of missives demanding the most time and expertise.
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In what the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) today described as a “parity adjustment recalibration,” the agency said it willincrease paymentsto skilled nursing facilities by 4%, or $1.4 billion, starting in fiscal year 2024.
A survey of 205 hospital IT and clinical leaders from market research firm IDC found that 53 percent identified digital transformation as a top five most important goal for 2023 and 2024. The study summarizes 19 goals and the percentage of leaders that included them as their top five most important. Read the full report here .
Many hospitals and health systems are still struggling to recover from one of the toughest financial years on record, yet 88% plan to increase their third-party technology investments in 2023-2024.
Officials from the Veterans Affairs Department pushed back on Wednesday against legislation that would impose stringent requirements on the department’s beleaguered electronic health record modernization program, but voiced support for a proposal to increase oversight of major acquisition projects moving forward.
Johns Hopkins Medicine is joining a national trend this month when it begins charging a fee to send some messages through its online patient portal, MyChart, much like it does for in-person or telehealth visits, according to a memo to staff obtained by The Baltimore Banner.
Primary care physicians saw their compensation rise faster than other medical and surgical specialties in 2022, as significant E/M coding changes enacted by the CMS kicked into gear and volume stabilized coming out of the pandemic.
Permanently expanding telemedicine access hasbroad bipartisan supportin Congress. A number of bills have been introduced to codify more telehealth protections after COVID-19, including CONNECT, which is considered the most comprehensive virtual care legislation by advocacy groups.
Health spending over the next decade is expected to grow more rapidly than the overall economy — consistent with past trends — though spending patterns will be greatly influenced by the end of the COVID-19 public health emergency, according to new estimates released Wednesday by government actuaries.
By 2031, about $1 of every $5 spent in the U.S. will be on healthcare.
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