Healthcare

Healthcare gains jobs in July, but still down 800K from February

By Hailey Mensik for Healthcare Dive Dive Brief: Healthcare added 126,000 jobs in July with notable gains for dentists (+45,000), hospitals (+27,000) and physicians’ offices (+26,000). That’s slower than June’s growth of 358,000 healthcare jobs, and the industry is still about 800,000 jobs short from February’s levels. Nursing home job losses deepened with 28,000 more in July…

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Contributor: Agility Required to Keep Pace With Code Changes During Pandemic

By Andria Jacobs, RN, MS, CEN, CPHQ for AJMC Andria Jacobs, RN, MS, CEN, CPHQ, chief operating officer for PCG Software, discusses 3 billing and claims issues facing the health care industry in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. Rightfully so, the coronavirus pandemic has shone the spotlight on front-line medical professionals who continue to…

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Code changes coming for evaluation and management visits: 4 things to know

Morgan Haefner for Becker’s Hospital Review In its proposed Physician Fee Schedule for 2021, CMS outlined changes to how office and outpatient evaluation and management visits will be coded. Four things to know: 1. CMS proposed a refinement to clarify the times when prolonged office and outpatient E/M visits can be reported. The department proposed revaluing…

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Healthcare data breach cost up to $7M per incident

Jackie Drees by Becker’s Hospital Review Hospitals and clinics continued to rack up the highest average data breach costs in 2020 at $7.13 million, up 10 percent since last year, according to IBM Security’s July 29 report. For the IBM Security-sponsored 2020 Cost of a Data Breach report, the Ponemon Institute conducted interviews with more than…

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11 CPT codes take effect for ASCs

By Angie Stewart for Becker’s Hospital Review CMS published 11 Current Procedural Terminology Category III codes that took effect July 1 in the ASC payment system. The agency also made updated payment rates available for download. The new codes: 0594T. Humerus osteotomy with insertion of an externally controlled intramedullary lengthening device, including intraoperative imaging, initial and subsequent alignment assessments,…

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Guest post: Most common COVID-19 respiratory manifestations

By Alba Kuqi, MD, CICA, CCS, CDIP, CCDS, CRCR, CSMC for ACDIS CDI Blog In their review of the medical record, CDI professionals aim to reconstruct the patient story from admission to discharge by examining, understanding, and synthesizing many puzzle pieces from disparate systems and people. Many patients coming in with COVID-19 related pneumonia are demonstrating…

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States ranked by adults reporting anxiety, depression symptoms during pandemic

By Anuja Vaidya for Becker’s Hospital Review West Virginia had the highest percentage of adults reporting symptoms of anxiety or depression in the last week of June, according to data from the Kaiser Family Foundation. The data is from the Household Pulse Survey 2020, conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau in partnership with the National Center for…

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Half of consumers avoid seeking care because it’s too difficult

By Jeff Lagasse for Healthcare Finance Finding, accessing, and paying for healthcare in America requires so much work that half of consumers have avoided seeking care altogether, a new survey has found. More than two-thirds of consumers said every step of the healthcare process is a chore. Most said they don’t know how much a…

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How Northwell Health treated acutely ill COVID-19 patients at home

By Mackenzie Bean for Becker’s Hospital Review Northwell Health rapidly developed a care program to treat more than 150 severely ill COVID-19 patients at home in response to the surge in COVID-19 cases in New York this spring, reports The New York Times. The home care program relies on a team of specialists who use telehealth…

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