The 58th episode of our podcast, Disrupt, is now available! For this episode of Disrupt, Home Health Care News caught up with Raman Brar, the CEO and co-founder of Pathwell. During the conversation, Brar touched on the company’s transition from a technology company to a home-based care provider, Pathwell’s growth goals and how the company plans to navigate the Home […]
Can’t see the audio player? Click here to listen on Acast. You can also listen on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Pocket Casts, or wherever you listen to podcasts. It’s been less than a week since the Supreme Court struck down the constitutional right to abortion and each passing day has produced more questions than answers. Doctors, employers, lawmakers, district attorneys, […]
This link leads to the machine-readable files that are made available in response to the federal Transparency in Coverage Rule and includes negotiated service rates and out-of-network allowed amounts between health plans and healthcare providers. The machine readable files are formatted to allow researchers, regulators, and application developers to more easily access and analyze data.
The issues of choice and motherhood have dominated headlines over the past week. This discourse has centered around a woman’s choice to have a child, but there is also a lesser-discussed maternal choice becoming eliminated for some women: the choice of how they will feed their newborn. The U.S. has a severe lack of accessible breastfeeding resources for pregnant women […]
THCB Gang Joining Matthew Holt (@boltyboy) on #THCBGang on Thursday June 30 will be THCB regular writer and ponderer of odd juxtapositions Kim Bellard (@kimbbellard); Principal of Worksite Health Advisors Brian Klepper (@bklepper1); futurists Ian Morrison (@seccurve); and fierce patient activist Casey Quinlan (@MightyCasey). I suspect a couple of political issues may just come up given the last week or so in Washington DC. […]
Providers shouldn’t cite the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act as a reason to disclose a patient’s abortion plan to law enforcement, the Health and Human Services Department said Wednesday. Under HIPAA, healthcare providers are allowed to disclose—including to law enforcement— a patient’s medical information if they believe it’s needed to prevent or lessen a “serious and imminent threat” to […]
Challenges to Strengthening Cybersecurity in Healthcare The federal government has been working to help industries beef up their controls, from funding nascent cybersecurity research in the 1970s to establishing the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency in 2018 and passing the Cyber Incident Reporting for Critical Infrastructure Act in 2022. Ultimately, federal agencies depend on private network administrators to do their […]
Dive Brief: President Joe Biden has signed into law a bill requiring the Department of Veterans Affairs to be more transparent about the cost and performance of its beleaguered electronic health records modernization program. The bill, called the VA Electronic Health Record Transparency Act, requires the VA to report the program’s costs to congressional committees on a quarterly basis, including […]
A judge on Thursday issued a temporary block on Florida’s 15-week abortion ban one day before it was set to go into effect. The law, which is not a trigger law like other states have set into effect, is modeled after Mississippi’s own 15-week abortion ban that was heard in front of the Supreme Court and ultimately led to Roe […]
“Saint Luke’s Health System is aware of and continues to closely monitor legal developments regarding Missouri’s abortion trigger law, including recent comments from the Missouri Attorney General’s Office and the Governor of Missouri regarding the use of emergency contraceptives,” St. Luke’s said Wednesday. “Following further internal review, Saint Luke’s will now resume providing emergency contraceptives, under new protocols, at all […]