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  According to multiple sources, 90% of all [reimbursement claim] denials can be prevented. Some 30-40% of denials are due to clerical issues such as incomplete or inaccurate registration documents. Experts in health care data analysis now agree that 80% of the issues involved in denials stem from just 20% of potential problems.

Excerpted from: Population Health News, Volume 7 Number 4, April 2020,"How Data Analytics Can Revive Hospitals’ Revenue Cycle Management," by Damaris L. Medina.
 
Insights
Small hospitals get a hand with population health management
Healthcare IT News, April 7, 2020

Accountable Care And Population Health In Time Of Pandemic
Health Affairs Blog, April 3, 2020

Health Orgs Target Social Determinants of Health from COVID-19
Patient Engagement HIT, March 31, 2020

In the coronavirus age, loneliness & social isolation are concerns for healthcare
Healthcare Finance News, March 26, 2020

Why COVID-19 could make social determinants of health even worse
Advisory Board, March 25, 2020

New COVID-19 Community Vulnerability Map Uses SODH to Identify Risk
HIT Consultant, March 24, 2020

Leveraging AI for COVID-19 Outreach, Population Health Management
Health IT Analytics, March 24, 2020

You’re Doing It Wrong: What Changes In Medicaid And SNAP Reveal About SODH
Health Affairs Blog, March 24, 2020

COVID-19 and chronic conditions: A look at population health
Inside Angle blog/3M, March 23, 2020

How Payers Invest in Coronavirus Social Determinants of Health
HealthPayer Intelligence, March 20, 2020

What's News
  Needling Policy Makers and Sharpening the Debate: Syringe Exchange Programs
Public Health Management & Practice, abstract only, May/June 2020
 
     
  UCSF launches dashboard to track how SODH affect population health
Becker's Health IT, April 8, 2020
 
     
  Social, financial factors critical to assessing cardiovascular risk
American College of Cardiology via EurekAlert!, March 18, 2020
 
This Month in Population Health News
 
  • Managing Populations through Crisis: Remote Patient Monitoring and Telehealth, by Andrew Snyder, MD, FAAP and Shanah Tirado, MBA, MPA
  • The Primary Care - Population Medicine Program: Training Future Physicians to be Leaders in Population Health (More important Now Than Ever), by Megan Geary, MD, Leah Jones and Paul George MD, MHPE
  • How Data Analytics Can Revive Hospitals' Revenue Cycle Management, by Damaris L. Medina
  • Thought Leaders' Corner: "What inequalities do black and Hispanic patients face in the emergency room and at safety net hospitals?"
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  • Catching Up With... Nate Cornish, MS

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  • Telemedicine For Primary Care Is Booming - For Now, by Ron Shinkman
  • Medical Home Network Using AI Platform To Identify Patients Vulnerable To COVID-19, by Ron Shinkman
  • PCORI Launching Study To Determine HCQ's Efficacy In Treating COVID-19, by Ron Shinkman
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