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| Nov 4, 2014 | New CMS guidelines on telemedicine reimbursement include ‘significant additional coverage’ | In addition, Medicare will cover remote-patient monitoring of chronic conditions. Previously, Medicare didn’t pay for separately for such services, requiring that such billing be bundled with an “evaluation and management” code,” according ... |
| Jun 18, 2010 | UPDATE: Congress set to restore Medicare reimbursement next week | Congress is set to restore Medicare reimbursement rates for physicians next week, meaning a de facto 2.2 percent pay raise, after a 21 percent cut went into effect today.
The rollback would only last six months, however, meaning further rat... |
| May 6, 2010 | ClearCount raises $1.1 million in Series B round | By Brandon Glenn
ClearCount Medical Solutions Inc. raised $1.1 million in the first tranche of a Series B funding round it hopes will total $5 million.
The funding was detailed in a regulatory filing and confirmed by CFO Dave Haffner.
The c... |
| May 6, 2010 | ClearCount Medical raises $1.1M of anticipated $5M Series B round | To date, the company has raised about $12.5 million. ClearCount’s $3.4 million Series A round last year was led by Pittsburgh’s Draper Triangle Ventures.
Along with other existing investors, Draper also participated in the latest funding an... |
| Apr 1, 2010 | Berwick’s appointment a boon for medical device makers? | If you’ve been studying the contents of the recently passed healthcare reform legislation, and you’ve looked in vain for the elements that emphatically implement systemic cost control and improvements in quality of care, President Barack Ob... |
| Mar 10, 2010 | ClearCount appoints new CFO | By Brandon Glenn
Sponge safety company ClearCount Medical Solutions hired David Haffner to be its new CFO.
Haffner, who was CFO for medical technology companies including RedPath Integrated Pathology and Renal Solutions, will oversee the da... |
| Mar 9, 2010 | ClearCount hires new CFO | Promoted
Telemedicine’s potential to provide healthcare to the world’s most vulnerable
Teladoc Health Head of R&D Yulun Wang highlights the impact of virtual care in underserved populations around the globe through the World Telehealth ... |
| Mar 9, 2010 | BioBehavioral Diagnostics CEO Byron Hewett discusses ADHD efforts | Byron Hewett: The technology was licensed from McClean hospital and Harvard. Back in 2004 BioBehavioral Diagnostics licensed a portfolio of about about 25 patents from McClean. In 2006 the A Round was funded and that gave us the money to de... |
| Feb 1, 2010 | Pittsburgh’s ClearCount gets FDA approval for lower-cost sponge-detection system | Promoted
Clinical Care Capacity Planning
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Telemedicine’s potential to provide healthcare to the world’s most vulnerable
Teladoc Health Head of R... |
| Jan 22, 2010 | Hyland Software launches software for MEDITECH meaningful use | Hyland Software Inc. launched OnBase software to help small healthcare providers meaningfully use health information technology.
The OnBase software is designed to handle paper-based content that the MEDITECH healthcare information system d... |
| Jan 21, 2010 | Hyland Software launches OnBase product to help MEDITECH customers ‘meaningfully use’ IT | Promoted
This Patient Experience Checklist Is Your Key To Success in 2021
As healthcare systems strive to recover from losses due to the pandemic, patient acquisition and retention have never been more urgent, and patient experience has nev... |
| Jan 11, 2010 | Half of medical device professionals looking to change jobs this year: MedCity Morning Read, Jan. 11, 2010 | Promoted
Covid-19’s terrible toll on diabetes patients. What can be done?
The public health crisis has undermined the economy and made people with chronic conditions more vulnerable and stressed. Learn more with a new report from Omada Heal... |
| Jan 7, 2010 | Molecular diagnostics company Predictive Biosciences buys OncoDiagnostic Laboratory in Cleveland | Founded in 1985 by Dr. Cirilo F. Galang and other pathologists, OncoDiagnostic Laboratory (ODL) has developed a subspecialty for providing cancer pathology services to hundreds of urology practices nationwide. Galang, who also is president ... |
| Dec 8, 2009 | CMS shifts coverage on HIV screening | The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services shifted gears on its reimbursement policy for both standard and rapid HIV tests, in an attempt to catch more undiagnosed cases in vulnerable populations.
The national insurer changing a statute... |
| Nov 24, 2009 | Growth at Akron Children’s Hospital goes beyond bricks and mortar | “We need office space,” said Shawn Lyden, executive vice president and general counsel for the children’s hospital. Akron Children’s also needs a new neonatal unit, emergency department and more operating rooms.
But the children’s hospital ... |
| Sep 8, 2009 | As Obama’s speech to Congress approaches, details of compromise — MedCity Morning Read, Sept. 8, 2009 | WASHINGTON, D.C. — As President Obama prepared Monday for his speech to Congress on health care reform, some details leaked out about fees and coverage limits under a proposal being floated by the chairman of the Senate Finance Commit... |
| Jul 29, 2009 | Cleveland Clinic, Aspect Medical Systems collaborate to study anesthesia outcomes |  The agreement combines the Clinic’s sophisticated electronic health record systems, skilled investigators and clinicians — and access to tens of thousands of patients — with Aspect Medical’s brain wave-measuring device that tells how a... |
| Jun 16, 2009 | Emergency doctors nationwide finding protection from ERs gone wild | Promoted
Telemedicine’s potential to provide healthcare to the world’s most vulnerable
Teladoc Health Head of R&D Yulun Wang highlights the impact of virtual care in underserved populations around the globe through the World Telehealth ... |
| Feb 17, 2009 | Hospitals preparing for audit program to recover Medicare overpayment | Promoted
Telemedicine’s potential to provide healthcare to the world’s most vulnerable
Teladoc Health Head of R&D Yulun Wang highlights the impact of virtual care in underserved populations around the globe through the World Telehealth ... |
| Feb 16, 2009 | Bidding process for medical durable goods delayed until April | But equipment suppliers and their advocates contended that the the bidding was so fraught with errors and inequities, that it would put legions of small suppliers out of business. So Congress required CMS to throw out results of the fir... |
| Emergency doctors nationwide finding protection from ERs gone wild | COLUMBUS, Ohio — State by state, emergency physicians are winning added protections against malpractice suits through new laws that can provide near-immunity from most emergency department mistakes.
Proponents promise the laws will bring a... |
| Growth at Akron Children’s Hospital goes beyond bricks and mortar | Updated 10:36 a.m., Nov. 25, 2009
AKRON, Ohio — Akron Children’s Hospital Medical Center is talking about expanding its main campus… again.
“We need office space,” said Shawn Lyden, executive vice president and general counsel for the child... |
| Molecular diagnostics company Predictive Biosciences buys OncoDiagnostic Laboratory in Cleveland | CLEVELAND, Ohio — Predictive Biosciences Inc., the Lexington, Mass., company that is commercializing biomarker and other non-invasive diagnostics for cancer management, has acquired OncoDiagnostic Laboratory Inc. in Cleveland for undisclose... |
| ClearCount Medical raises $1.1M of anticipated $5M Series B round | ClearCount Medical Solutions Inc. has raised $1.1 million for a Series B round of investment funding that the company hopes will total $5 million.
The funding was detailed in a regulatory filing and confirmed by CFO Dave Haffner.
The compan... |
| BioBehavioral Diagnostics CEO Byron Hewett discusses ADHD efforts | We first spoke with Byron Hewett, the CEO of Cambridge, Mass.-based BioBehavioral Diagnostics Co., late last summer, following a $2.5 million funding round that saw the company sell convertible debt securities to a trio of investors.
In the... |
| As Obama’s speech to Congress approaches, details of compromise — MedCity Morning Read, Sept. 8, 2009 | WASHINGTON, D.C. — As President Obama prepared Monday for his speech to Congress on health care reform, some details leaked out about fees and coverage limits under a proposal being floated by the chairman of the Senate Finance Commit... |
| Bidding process for medical durable goods delayed until April | WASHINGTON, D.C. — The bidding process to supply durable medical goods to Medicare recipients, set to begin Tuesday, has been delayed until April 18, according to a release from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). The ... |
| Pittsburgh’s ClearCount gets FDA approval for lower-cost sponge-detection system | PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania — ClearCount Medical Solutions has received clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for its SmartWand-DTX sponge-counting system, a smaller, lower-cost, more-portable alternative to its sponge-detection... |
| Hyland Software launches OnBase product to help MEDITECH customers ‘meaningfully use’ IT | WESTLAKE, Ohio — Hyland Software Inc. has developed OnBase software to help small health care providers meaningfully use health information technology.
The OnBase software is designed to handle paper-based content that the MEDITECH... |
| Hospitals preparing for audit program to recover Medicare overpayment | Health-care providers next month get their first taste of a permanent federal audit program that will likely return hundreds of millions of dollars in Medicare reimbursements back to the government.
The Recovery Audit Contractor (RAC) progr... |
| New CMS guidelines on telemedicine reimbursement include ‘significant additional coverage’ | As CMS goes, so goes private insurance. That’s perhaps a simplification of how reimbursement rates are developed for healthcare payers, but big payers definitely watch what CMS is doing.
So it’s no small deal that CMS late last week issued ... |
| Half of medical device professionals looking to change jobs this year: MedCity Morning Read, Jan. 11, 2010 | Image by n28ive1 via Flickr
Highlights of the important and the interesting from the world of health care:
More than half of medical-device professionals to look for work in 2010: According to a poll of 2000 medical device professional cond... |
| ClearCount hires new CFO | Sponge-safety company ClearCount Medical Solutions has hired a new chief financial officer.
In his new role, David Haffner will oversee the day-to-day financial operations of the company and will be responsible for its financial strategy, a... |
| Cleveland Clinic, Aspect Medical Systems collaborate to study anesthesia outcomes | CLEVELAND, Ohio — The Cleveland Clinic will study the outcomes of patients who received anesthesia during surgeries through a five-year collaboration and licensing agreement with Aspect Medical Systems Inc.in Norwood, Mass.
The goal of t... |