FAST STATS 41%


of Americans have


experienced at least one heart-related


issue since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, with top issues including shortness of


breath, dizziness, increased blood pressure and chest pain.


1 IN 4 COVID-19 positive Americans (27%)


reported that their diagnosis has impacted their heart health.


77%


of Americans now say that they often or sometimes sit throughout the day, while walking throughout the day has declined.


40% of those who have lost a family member to


heart disease before the age of 60 have never been screened for the condition they lost a family member to, which jumps to 54% among millennials.


34% of Americans feel that if they have a family


history of heart disease, there is nothing they can do to limit the risk of developing that heart condition.


1/3


of Americans don’t know that factors such as stress, high blood pressure, obesity and smoking/vaping can increase their risk of developing heart disease.


of Americans are familiar with their family history of heart disease.


77% 2/3


(65%) of Americans say they have had their blood pressure checked within the last six months.


Sources:


https://newsroom.clevelandclinic.org/2022/02/01/cleveland-clinic- survey-roughly-40-of-americans-have-experienced-at-least-one-heart- related-issue-since-the-beginning-of-covid-19-pandemic/


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NEWSWIRE


Report reveals only 14.3% of hospitals complying with hospital price transparency rule A new report released by PatientRightsAd- vocate.org shows that one year after a law requiring hospitals to post their real prices online went into effect, andfound most of the hospitals’ pricing fi les incomplete. Noncompliant hospitals failed to show the different prices for the same services by all insurers and plans accepted as well as cash prices.


The Semi-Annual Hospital Price Trans- parency Compliance Report showed that just 14.3% of the 1,000 randomly sampled hospitals are complying with a rule that went into effect Jan. 1, 2021 and was re- enforced by the Biden Administration via Executive Order in July 2021. The report follows PatientRightsAdvo- cate.org’s fi rst Semi-Annual Hospital Price Transparency Compliance Report released last July which found that of 500 hospitals sampled, only 5.6% were compliant. PatientRightsAdvocate.org's new analy-


sis of 1,000 randomly selected hospitals found:


•Only 14.3% were complying with the transparency rule. •Only 37.9% of the hospitals posted a suf- fi cient amount of negotiated rates, but over half were not compliant in other criteria of the rule, such as listing rates by each insurer and named plan. •Only 0.5% of hospitals owned by the three largest hospital systems in the country are complying.


The Transparency in Coverage Rule, which will become law in July 2022, will require group health plans and health insurance issuers to publicly disclose nego- tiated prices for all covered items and ser- vices and historical payments, and disclose cost-sharing information upon request to a participant, benefi ciary, or enrollee. The Transparency in Coverage Rule was originally scheduled to go into effect on Jan. 1, 2022 but was delayed after intense lobbying by the insurance industry.


ICD-11 offi cially in effect for the national and international reporting of causes of illness, death, and more


The World Health Organization (WHO) Eleventh Revision of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-11) has now come in effect, with the latest update. The ICD provides a common language that allows health professionals to share standardized information across the world. It is the foundation for identifying health trends and statistics worldwide, containing around 17,000 unique codes


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for injuries, diseases and causes of death, underpinned by more than 120,000 cod- able terms. By using code combinations, more than 1.6 million clinical situations can now be coded. Compared with previous versions, ICD-11 is entirely digital with a new user- friendly format and multilingual capabili- ties that reduce the chance of error. It has been compiled and updated with input from over 90 countries and involvement of healthcare providers, enabling evolution from a system imposed on clinicians into a truly enabling clinical classifi cation and terminology database that serves a broad range of uses for recording and reporting statistics on health. Among other updates, ICD-11 improves the clarity of terms for the general public and facilitates the coding of important details such as the spread of a cancer or the exact site and type of a fracture. The new version also includes updated diag- nostic recommendations for mental health conditions and digital documentation of COVID-1 certifi cates. ICD is used by health insurers who make reimbursement decisions on the basis of ICD coding, by national health programme managers, by data collection specialists, and by anyone who tracks progress in global health and determines health resource allocation.


Joint Commission releases ruling on COVID-19 healthcare staff vaccination surveying The Joint Commission will begin survey- ing to the “Omnibus COVID-19 Health Care Staff Vaccination” interim fi nal rule published by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) in the Nov. 5, 2021 Federal Register, according to their press release. Further guidance was published by CMS on Dec. 28, 2021. This rule affects the following Joint Commission deemed programs: Ambulatory Surgical Centers, Critical Access Hospitals, Hospitals, Home Care, Home Infusion Therapy, and Hospice.


As a result of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision on Jan. 13, healthcare organiza- tions in the 24 states that were not previ- ously subject to the “Omnibus COVID-19 Health Care Staff Vaccination” rule now are. Additionally, healthcare organizations in these 24 states need to demonstrate com- pliance utilizing the phased-in approach per the timelines specifi ed in the CMS memorandum issued Jan. 14.


Beginning Feb. 14, surveyors will begin


surveying to the vaccination requirements for these 24 states as follows: Alabama,


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