Category: Regulatory / Policy

The 40th Annual J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference, January 10-13, brought strategic insights. This year, I spoke with Deloitte, specifically partners in the regulatory practice and leaders of the regulatory strategies group. This team seeks discussion with healthcare executives who look at the regulatory environment as input to strategy endeavors.As an industry as heavily regulated as […]

Until now, healthcare providers spent up to 40% of their time on administrative tasks, largely due to the complexity of the code system. Spending more time on paperwork meant spending less time with patients which was frustrating for everyone. Recently, the AMA revised the definitions for Evaluation and Management (E/M) codes in the Current Procedural […]

On 8/30/21, I had the honor of co-chairing the first roundtable from NCPDP’s (National Council for Prescription Drug Programs) PharmTechnology Innovation (PTI) Accelerator.  Our presenters discussed the different elements related to value-based agreements (VBA). Our incredible speakers included: John W. Hill, MBAHCM, CNED, Executive Vice President & GM with the National Council for Prescription Drug […]

Introduction Do patients benefit from the money that the U.S. Government has spent on the interoperability of clinical systems? The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) believes that the purpose of the $34 billion dollar Electronic Health Record (EHR) Incentive Programs (aka “Meaningful Use”), is to provide patients with access to their medical records […]

Tune in for a Health Datapalooza Webinar featuring Health and Human Services data leader, hosted by CareSetThe Community Profile Report, a frequently updated national report detailing multiple data streams related to the COVID-19 pandemic, is transforming under the Biden Administration. Learn what this transformation means in relation to transparency of information to the public, and […]

The Community FAQ for this data release is hosted by CareSet (PRNewswire) HOUSTON – Today Health and Human Services (HHS) announced the “COVID Community Profile Report” a daily updated snapshot of how COVID is affecting our states and communities. This release of county-level testing data has never been made available before in any dataset, nor […]

Last night, HHS released COVID-19 capacity data at the hospital-level. Previously, this data had only been available on a state level. CareSet had early access to the hospital data in order to help create the Facility COVID PUF Community Frequently Asked Questions document. It is available on our GitHub page. If you have questions about […]

(PRWEB) Yesterday the Federal Government released new hospital COVID-19 capacity data at the hospitals-level. Previously released data about hospital capacity had only been released at the state level. The Dept. of Health and Human Services (HHS) provided CareSet with early access to the data in order to facilitate the creation of a community Frequently Asked […]

On March 9th, 2020, HHS Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) and Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) finalized two open data rules: CMS’ interoperability and patient access rule ONC’s Cures Act Hosted by Ogilvy Consulting, several industry leaders discussed the new rules and what they mean for patients, providers, […]

The HOP Teaming Dataset from CareSet offers the most detailed and up-to-date picture of the patient-sharing relationships found between all U.S. Medicare providers HOUSTON (PRWEB) – Today CareSet released the updated HOP Teaming Dataset at Academy Health’s Datapalooza. The release is a game-changing dataset that offers the most detailed and up-to-date picture of patient-sharing relationships […]