Pennsylvania providers caring for individuals with intellectual disabilities and autism (ID/A) continue to deal with low wages, high vacancy rates, and high turnover, according to a new study conducted by the Center for Healthcare Solutions.
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Medicaid plans earn top ratings by National Committee for Quality Assurance
AmeriHealth Caritas Pennsylvania and AmeriHealth Caritas Pennsylvania Community HeathChoices received top ranking in the National Committee for Quality Assurance’s Medicaid Health Plan ratings 2022.
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Highmark senior medical director talks telemedicine
Highmark Blue Shield’s senior medical director, Dr. Tim Law, spoke to the Journal about how the pandemic impacted Highmark as a payer and what the telemedicine space looks like for payers today.
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Harrisburg Jewish Home board sells senior care facility to real estate investment firm
Non-profit senior care facility The Campus of the Jewish Home of Greater Harrisburg will be sold to New Jersey-based real estate investment firm, Tryko Partners.
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Pa.’s independent living services blame low reimbursements for workforce crises
Pennsylvania organizations offering independent living services to people with disabilities are not receiving enough Medicaid reimbursements from the state to keep their employees, say advocates for the state’s Centers for Independent Living, known as CILs.
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WellSpan Health and Gateway health announce value-based partnership
WellSpan Health is partnering with Pittsburgh-based managed care organization Gateway Health Plan in a move the two organizations say will lower health care costs for Gateway’s 24,000 Medicaid members living in South Central Pennsylvania.
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Pennsylvania hospital margins thin following COVID-19
Pennsylvania hospitals saw a 33% loss in operating income as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a new fiscal report by the Pennsylvania Health Care Cost Containment Council (PHC4).
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New CMS proposal could lead to permanent changes in telemedicine reimbursement
A dramatic increase to Medicare reimbursements for telemedicine services that allowed health care providers to receive payment for services they provide online, could continue after the public health emergency is over.
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Select EMS agencies get more care options under test of new Medicare model
A new Medicare payment model being tested on three midstate EMS agencies will offer more options for caring with patients covered under Medicare
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Auditor General: Pa. unprepared to care for aging population
Pennsylvania is ill-prepared to serve a fast growing-population of older adults, according to a new report from state Auditor General Eugene DePasquale.
Read More »Guest view: A win for health care over big tobacco is at risk
A lot has changed since 1998, the year that Pennsylvania and 45 states stood up to big tobacco and helped create the Tobacco Settlement Fund, or TSF. Since Pennsylvania hospitals first began receiving money from the fund, it has been used to bolster health care in that state in a variety of ways. Gov. Tom Wolf’s budget plan kept the TSF whole, but The Hospital and Healthsystem Association of Pennsylvania is concerned that this year some lawmakers want to use TSF funds to instead pay state debt.
Read More »Pennsylvania nursing homes face Medicaid funding shortfalls
Nursing homes throughout the state face Medicaid funding gaps, for a total of $631 million in statewide funding shortages, according to data from LeadingAge PA, an association of nonprofit aging service providers in Pennsylvania.
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