The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has issued its first proposed payment rules under the Biden Administration. While these rules are required to update Medicare payment rates for different provider types, they...

With dwindling provider availability and a growing patient population, the healthcare industry is increasingly turning to technological advancements to improve patient outcomes. During the pandemic, the industry was forced to adapt, leading many practitioners...

By April of last year, seemingly every news station in American was featuring the heroic efforts of physicians, nurses, and other clinicians fighting COVID-19. These providers transformed healthcare, implementing telehealth and virtual care.

For years, providers have been plagued with defending claims for medically necessary services that have been denied due to insufficient documentation and technical reasons. This leads to the Medicare program and commercial...

Understanding how to clinically validate sepsis and differentiate between sepsis and septicemia is not easy, and requires a lot of time and effort. Sepsis is an overwhelming non-homeostatic response of the immune system to...

Skilled nursing facility (SNF) staffing levels across several provider types have fallen since Medicare implemented new payment rules meant to drive value over volume of services, according to a new Health Affairs study.