Reimbursement

Fifty-two percent of insured Americans say paying for medical bills creates stress that is affecting their health.

During AHIP 2023, Prx Health tackles the issue of billing codes being needed for reimbursement and to prevent inappropriate use of the ER.

High expenses have been placing added strain on hospitals as they try to recover from the challenges of the pandemic.

Two organizations protest that treatment is no more accessible than under the agency's current clinical trial policy.

Overall, healthcare costs increased 5.6% this year, and have increased by about 4.8% annually since 2021.

Physician-owned practices reported higher levels of compensation than hospital-owned practices.

Medicare, through CPT code development, sets the lead for how digital health gets paid, says Brian Scarpelli, executive director of the Connected Health Initiative.

Thirty-one percent of inpatient claims submitted to commercial payers weren't paid for more than three months, data shows.

More than half of members in the state now receive care from providers participating in equity-focused payment contracts, Blue Cross says.

IT, telehealth, clinical decision support, wellness tools and diagnostics all fall into the same category, says Jessica Hauflaire, COO of the Digital Therapeutics Alliance. Digital therapeutics consist of software as a direct intervention to treat, manage or prevent medical conditions.