Category Archives: What We’re Reading
What We’re Reading – Risk-based agreements: Good for business, patients
As healthcare administrators versed for decades in the intricacies of successful risk-based practices, we read this article with interest. However, the author seemed to talk around the subject, ignoring the elephant in the room of risk-based payment. Call it what … Read Full Post
What We’re Reading – If you’re not prioritizing mental health, you are ‘missing the boat’
Many of our recent blogs have commented about how challenging this year has been, but it bears repeating. COVID, social unrest, election stress and the trickle-down effects from all of these have ratcheted up our collective angst and threaten our … Read Full Post
What We’re Reading – The Average Cost of Hospital Care for COVID-19
Wide variations in hospital costs for COVID-19 patients were discussed in an article from Healthcare Finance News. The author cited claims research from February through August and revealed the average cost of hospital care varied by age and length of … Read Full Post
What We’re Reading – Employers make ‘remarkable’ pivot to virtual hiring
If we all had to admit it, COVID has ushered in some good changes: more remote work and schedule flexibility; new safety and sanitizing practices that may protect us from even the common cold; Zoom-ing has perhaps made us more … Read Full Post
What We’re Reading – Get Ready for these 4 Changes Coming to the Business World in 2021
We believe 2020 will go down as the Year – if not the eon – of Adaptation. It certainly seems like we’ve lived an eon in just 10 months, doesn’t it? Not only have employees, children, consumers et al adapted, … Read Full Post
What We’re Reading – Walmart partners with Clover Health to offer Medicare Advantage plans
It was just a matter of time before more players entered the healthcare space, which has been front & center for some time, but it’s interesting to see a retail giant take steps to become an insurer. Beginning next year, … Read Full Post
What We’re Reading – Enhanced Care During COVID-19: New Uses for Home Health Virtual Visits
An interesting whitepaper from NavCare shed some light on the importance to the bottom line and patient outcomes of virtual visits and associated technology. In 2020, the perfect storm hit home care: the phasing in of the Patient-Driven Groupings Model … Read Full Post
What We’re Reading – Home Care No Longer a Job Seeker’s Market, New Data Suggests
According to Indeed Hiring Lab, home care was a job seeker’s market before the pandemic. The sector’s unemployment rate was “incredibly low,” which left agencies quite challenged in finding and retaining workers whose market advantage encouraged them to job-hop for … Read Full Post
What We’re Reading – 5 Providers Settle After Withholding EHR Access, Violating HIPAA
The HIPAA Right of Access Initiative allows patients the right to timely access to their health records at a reasonable cost and in the manner in which they request it [emphasis intentional], or they may file a complaint with the … Read Full Post
What We’re Reading – Five Self-care Tips for Physicians in the COVID Era
Physicians have always had stress in their lives but when COVID surfaced, it just seemed to mount higher. We all probably thought at the beginning that this would only affect our lives for a short period of time and then … Read Full Post