CYBER SECURITY

Attack sparks efforts for payment relief

A cyber attack created billing burdens when it shut down the nation’s largest healthcare billing clearinghouse and impacted dozens of related services for 10 days which is delaying payments, threatening major cash flow issues for post-acute providers and limiting access to some patients’ medications, experts are warning.

The target was Change Healthcare, which filters claims, processes prescriptions, handles prior-authorization requests, and provides more than 100 other data and clinical support services. The company, acquired by UnitedHealth Group’s Optum in 2022, says it supports more than 14 billion clinical, financial and operational transactions annually.

SKILLED NURSING

Inside the rash of abrupt nursing home closures

There has been in increase in the number of nursing homes abruptly closing over the past several months, resulting in the unanticipated displacement of residents.

Causes include:

• tough economic environment
• staffing problems
• frequent change of ownership in the sector
• complex and punitive survey process and fines
• shifts in federal regulation

MEDICAL CHRONOLOGY

Case and risk evaluation

A medical chronology from Excelas gives you an efficient, unbiased summary of what happened during a patient’s care over a specific period of time. Provided in a user-friendly format, our chronology is arranged so it can be reviewed quickly. It highlights only the most pertinent information from a patient’s medical record.

Prepared by legal nurse consultants, our medical chronologies outline the details of significant medical events related to named allegations and other identified areas of concern.

CLIENT TESTIMONIALS

In their own words