You can’t deny that acronyms, abbreviations, and unusual lingo abound in healthcare. Add technology to the mix, and you’re wading into a confusing alphabet soup of terms. We tackled a few in our blog about the Da Vinci standards. Today, we’ll expand on words you may run across when exploring prior authorization software options. Key Players in the Interoperability Arena CMS: In addition to being the “payer” for millions of Americans, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid, aka CMS, plays a central role in advancing interoperability and reducing the administrative burdens. Those administrative burdens contribute an estimated 15-25% of total… Read entire article here
Recently the Association for Clinical Oncology (ACO) released the results of a 2022 survey on prior authorization and cancer treatments. The findings support what we already know: prior authorizations create an administrative burden for providers and impede critical care for patients diagnosed with cancer. Take a closer look at the challenges uncovered by the survey and learn how prior authorization software addresses barriers to optimal cancer care. Prior Authorizations Demand Full-Time Attention In an article about the survey results, OncLiveⓇ explains, “Settings of the participants were well balanced across community or hospital-based health network (35%), private practice (34%), and academic… Read entire article here
January 3, 2023
How Volunteer Attorneys Are Helping Patients Overcome the “Financial Toxicity” of a Cancer Diagnosis
by Susan Lawson-Dawson | Healthcare Technology
Recently, we spoke with Senior Staff Attorney Erin Hartung about her work with Cancer Legal Care in Minnesota. Established in 2007, Cancer Legal Care staff, along with a network of volunteer attorneys, have helped over 12,000 Minnesotans with legal issues stemming from their cancer diagnosis and treatment. As the manager of the ICARE Program (Insurance Claim Advocacy and Resolution) at Cancer Legal Care, Erin is all too familiar with the challenges that cancer patients encounter from prior authorization delays and claim denials. ICARE focuses on helping with: Health insurance plan and coverage questions, claim denial appeals, and claim management Short-term… Read entire article here
A few decades ago, healthcare lagged well behind banking, retail and other industries when it came to digital transformation. Passage of the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act in 2010 put healthcare providers on the path for adoption and meaningful use of health IT. According to the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC), only 9% of non-federal acute care hospitals and 17% of office-based physicians had adopted EHRs in 2008. By 2021, those numbers hit 96% and 78% respectively. The journey has not been easy. When healthcare providers began making the switch… Read entire article here
