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Change Healthcare Cyberattack: What Social Workers Should Know

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By Denise Johnson, LCSW-C Senior Practice Associate March 2024 In February 2024, a major healthcare cybersecurity attack occurred, affecting many patients and providers including clinical social workers (CSWs). As a result, Change Healthcare became temporarily paralyzed, causing payment disruptions and delays in patient care.

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Native American Healthcare Disparities: Challenges and Solutions

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of citizens identifying as American Indian or Alaska Native relied on Medicaid or other public health insurance, and 14.9% on Medicaid or public health insurance and only 6.3% without coverage — Native American healthcare disparities clearly still exist despite efforts to eradicate them. had no coverage at all. with 34.3%

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Optimizing Revenue Cycle Management and Clinical Documentation Integrity To Avoid Coding Disasters

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Coding and clinical documentation have never been more important in healthcare. “We You’ll need ongoing training for your staff to improve your clinical documentation and avoid the following coding disasters. Insufficient Clinical Documentation or Underreported codes. Coding is high value — and in high demand.

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CMS Seeks Feedback on Good Faith Estimates

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Attention Clinical Social Workers: CMS Seeking Feedback on Good Faith Estimates. The request for feedback is related to the No Surprise Act (NSA), which protects patients from large, surprise healthcare bills. A list of additional questions is available at [link]. The deadline for submitting feedback to CMS is November 15, 2022.

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How to Keep Patients Satisfied — and Raise Your Patient Satisfaction Scores

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Improving patient experience scores is a goal for many healthcare organizations — and for good reason. As they consider new ideas to raise patient satisfaction, healthcare leaders must have an understanding of the Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (HCAHPS) scoring system that evaluates these efforts.

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Why Successful Integrated Care Management Matters

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According to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), integrated care is defined as “the systematic coordination of general and behavioral healthcare.” To provide the best services possible, healthcare organizations of all kinds must understand how to implement integrated care management.

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What You Need To Know About Value-Based Payment Models

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But momentum will continue, since the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced in 2021 that it plans to transition fully to value-based reimbursement by 2030. Healthcare organizations in the U.S. For example, less than 20% of Medicare spending is currently value-based. Why the change to value-based care?