Category: Understanding Medicare

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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 […]

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 […]

Extra! Extra! Read all about it! POTUS has signed the “Foundations for Evidence-Based Policymaking Act of 2018” which included the ‘Open, Public, Electronic, and Necessary Government Data Act’. What does this mean? Open data, machine-readable formats, by default. With this law, it is now the responsibility for government agencies to make ALL non-sensitive data open […]

CareSet and it’s co-founders have a history of advocacy and thought leadership around data security, “hactivism,” and data journalism. Below is a collection of some of our favorite attributions.I. CareSet in the News https://www.xconomy.com/texas/2017/03/06/%E2%80%8Bex-vice-president-biden-to-speak-about-cancer-moonshot-at-sxsw/Shah, A. (2017, March 6). Ex-Vice President Biden to speak about Cancer Moonshot at SXSW. Retrieved from https://www.xconomy.com/texas/2017/03/06/%E2%80%8Bex-vice-president-biden-to-speak-about-cancer-moonshot-at-sxsw/ https://www.forbes.com/sites/oreillymedia/2014/04/13/leading-by-example-two-stories/#2bf490c4280cO’Reilly, T. (2014, April […]

Medicare data is being used to produce better healthcare for older adults, and at the Louisville Innovation Summit CareSet CEO Laura Shapland joined a panel of health experts and discussed how open healthcare data is being used during a session called “When Seniors, Medicare Data and Pharma Collide: The Right Drugs, to the Right Patients, […]

This analysis identifies general trends and top performers within each segment of Medicare Part A (hospital care) to provide a better understanding of how Medicare has changed in recent years. A steady rise in health care costs appears to be favoring large organizations and driving a shift from billing procedures as inpatient to outpatient services. […]

Who owns a patient’s health information?·The patient to whom it refers?·The health provider that created it?·The IT specialist who has the greatest control over it?The notion of ownership is inadequate for health information. For instance, no one has an absolute right to destroy health information. But we all understand what it means to own an […]