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House Ways & Means committee unveils two-year telehealth extension bill, and tacks on PBM reforms

FierceHealthIT

New legislation extends the pandemic provisions for two more years, through 2026. The offsets for the bill include pharmacy benefit manager reforms.

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The Future of Telehealth in the U.S. and Across the Globe

InTouch Health

How Telehealth Will Address Future Healthcare Needs. Telehealth continues to grow at an accelerated rate around the world. over the forecast period 2019 to 2026 as more hospitals and healthcare facilities bring this technology online. Discover the future of telehealth as we look ahead to 2020 and beyond.

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How RPM can scale and sustain CMS' hospital at home program

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services just released data on its Acute Hospital Care at Home initiative , which thus far has admitted 11,159 patients suffering from respiratory infections, heart failure and severe sepsis. This is largely driven by an aging population and increasing preferences for care in familiar surroundings.

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Preventing Genetic Testing Fraud: 5 Actions for Health Plans

Healthcare IT Today

The following is a guest article by Erin Rutzler, Vice President of Fraud, Waste, and Abuse at Cotiviti In Delaware, more than 250 Medicare patients underwent unnecessary genetic testing based on telehealth consultations that often lasted less than two minutes— costing Medicare thousands of dollars per patient.

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Focus on Technology for Older Adults Sharpens in 2019

Aging in Place Technology Watch

million unfilled jobs by 2026. Medicare Advantage changes may revive tech-enabled home care services. category tags: baby boomers , Boomer-Senior Tech Business , Home Care , IoT and home monitoring , Voice Assistants/Smart Speakers , mHealth-Digital Health-Telehealth-Voice Health.

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The 2023 Health Economy – The Evolving Primary Care and Retail Health Convergence Through Trilliant Health’s Lens

Health Populi

healthcare spending, with curves moving up and to the right, and the Medicare Hospital Insurance Trust Fund moving into the opposite direction toward insolvency by 2033. For this discussion, I’ll pick six exhibits from the Report’s roughly 140 exhibits — starting with the big picture of the unsustainable nature of U.S.

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As Medical Cost Trend Remains Flat, Patients Face Growing Health Consumer Financial Stress

Health Populi

Even with moderating medical trend growth, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) expect that healthcare spending will account for 20% of the U.S. economy by 2026. As with public sector healthcare spending (“entitlements” in the form of Medicare and Medicaid), healthcare spending crowds out U.S.

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