When it comes to health care, there are many factors that contribute to the health and well-being of patients and patient populations. These factors extend beyond the medical care people receive and include social factors that directly shape and impact health outcomes and quality of life. These social factors are known as social determinants of…
The COVID-19 Public Health Emergency (PHE) was renewed again effective April 16, 20221; that 90-day renewal will expire on July 15, 2022. However, it is likely that the PHE will be extended again. Since taking office in 2021, the Biden Administration has a promised that they will provide states notice at least 60 days prior…
By now, most of us have been exposed to the critical role data can play when one aspires to make the most effective operational, clinical and financial decisions for their rehab therapy team, regardless of whether that team works in private practice, hospital therapy, or in a skilled nursing facility (SNF). Data itself, after all,…
To help continually bolster the ease and success of clients’ revenue cycle management (RCM) efforts, Net Health® recently launched an integration between Waystar and Net Health® Therapy and Net Health® Wound Care products. Thanks to this new integration, Waystar is now available for use by all Net Health® Therapy for Clinics and Net Health® Wound…
Without the use of accurate flight instruments, pilots simply cannot fly an airplane safely in low-visibility conditions. That’s because a pilot’s personal perceptions are in a near-constant battle with the physical realities of an aircraft’s movements and the way such motions affect them biologically. In other words, their personal perceptions are slow to perceive present…
Five days. That’s how long it takes on average to obtain just one physical signature.1 In a skilled nursing facility (SNF), where rehab therapy services are only reimbursed by Medicare if a physician signs off on each patient’s plan of care (POC), those five days can feel like a lifetime. Sure, we can create elaborate spreadsheets of…
Here’s a statistic that may jump out to rehab therapists: Disengaged patients are three times more likely to have unmet medical needs. In addition, they’re two times more likely to delay necessary medical care.1 This is according to a study published in Health Affairs for which researchers took a deep dive into the extent to…
It’s seemingly become the norm that, whenever a major tragedy occurs in some part of the world, the social media machine cranks out various memes that feature a now-popular quote meant to give people comfort. It’s a line credited to the late Fred Rogers, and I know you’ve seen it before. It’s shared to remind…
Three-Part Series Addresses Information Sharing, Information Blocking and Data Exchange Hear from Net Health’s Director of Compliance, Jessica Zeff, in this three-part series on new requirements for information sharing, in which Jessica describes “the secret code” that all healthcare professionals must come to know and understand. In Part 1, she provides context around information blocking…
Imagine purchasing a new desk from IKEA only to find that, once you have it home, it came with no instructions. All the pieces are there (you think), including the trusty hex tool, but all you have to guide you through the assembly process is a vision of how the final product should look. In…