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New codes from the AMA could mean more RPM reimbursement by 2025

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Medicare was the first to cover RPM. Numerous commercial payers also cover RPM, sometimes within their telehealth coverage policies. It is also worth noting that Medicare is not necessarily required to update its coding rules to reflect AMA's CPT code rules. But things may be changing, and for the better.

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Top 10 telehealth stories of 2020

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

There's no question that the COVID-19 crisis ignited unprecedented patient interest in telehealth. But to gain a sense of the landscape going forward, here's a refresher of Healthcare IT News' top 10 telehealth stories from 2020: Telemedicine during COVID-19: Benefits, limitations, burdens, adaptation.

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Controversy: New Mental Health Telehealth Requirement for An “In-Person Visit”

Telebehavioral Health Institute

This week’s installment concerns a recently published blog post about a controversial reimbursement requirement for telemental health telehealth after the end of the public health emergency (PHE). ” See New Medicare Law Requires In-Person Visit for Telehealth Coverage for more information. .”

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The CONNECT for Health Act is reintroduced, again

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

A bipartisan group of legislators has reintroduced the Creating Opportunities Now for Necessary and Effective Care Technologies for Health Act – first introduced in 2016 – to expand opportunities and coverage for telehealth through Medicare. Allow more eligible healthcare professionals to use telehealth services.

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Monash University project to enhance telehealth for mental health, palliative care services

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

A new project in the Australian state of Victoria aims to improve the telehealth capabilities of mental health and palliative care services. million) funding from the federal government-backed Digital Health Cooperative Research Centre (DHCRC) for its Enhanced Telehealth Capabilities project. WHY IT MATTERS. THE LARGER CONTEXT.

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The End Of The Public Health Emergency Part 2 – Temporary Medicare Changes and Their Effects

Mend

In part 2 of our blog series, Mend reviews the temporary Medicare changes for telehealth lasting until the end of 2024. Part one of our blog series covers the Medicare changes relating to telehealth that will remain a permanent policy. FQHCs and RHCs can bill for telehealth services.

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White House Ends COVID National & Public Health Emergencies: What Is the Telehealth Future?

Telebehavioral Health Institute

The federal end of the PHE also has reimbursement repercussions that have set precedents for the telehealth future. Dauntingly referred to as the “telehealth cliff” for more than a year, the official closing of the COVID PHE signals changes that leave millions of stakeholders with fewer healthcare benefits – or none at all.