Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 28, 2023

Mo Weitnauer, Chief Product Officer at MRO ACOs Impacted by Change to eCQM One of the biggest regulatory changes ahead directly impacts Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) and their quality reporting processes. physicians, hospital care, freestanding imaging centers, ambulatory surgical centers, etc.)

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Healthcare IT Medicare Telemedicine EHR 113

Henry Kotula

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

The most public example of health insurers cutting costs over the past year was Anthem’s policies to not pay for unnecessary emergency department visits or imaging services at hospitals. Anthem’s policies looked to nudge patients to less costly outpatient facilities, including urgent care centers and freestanding imaging centers.

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Medicare Accountable Care Telemedicine Patient Experience 32

American Well

MARCH 17, 2016

The goal of this coordinated care is to ensure that patients, especially the chronically ill, get the right care at the right time, while avoiding duplication of services and preventing medical errors. Images are not saved or stored after the visit to ensure patient privacy and compliance.

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Telehealth EMR HIPAA Telemedicine 48

American Well

MARCH 17, 2016

The goal of this coordinated care is to ensure that patients, especially the chronically ill, get the right care at the right time, while avoiding duplication of services and preventing medical errors. Images are not saved or stored after the visit to ensure patient privacy and compliance.

Telehealth 48

Telehealth EMR HIPAA Telemedicine 48

HIStalk Interviews

JULY 25, 2018

But we’re seeing that it’s picking up the pace pretty significantly, mainly in the imaging departments, but also expanding outside. On the imaging side, it was much easier for them to answer that it could help a radiologist diagnose something or notice some lesion or some problem with a vessel within an image much more quickly.

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EHR Interoperability Life Science Accountable Care 52

LinkousThink

JULY 10, 2010

Annual petitions to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to expand covered clinical service codes have resulted in adding about 15 services as eligible for reimbursement. Medicare – While the overwhelming majority of current payments under Medicare remains traditional fee-for-service this is changing.

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Telemedicine Medicare Accountable Care mHealth 28

Health Populi

MAY 22, 2018

Note in the second chart that inpatient care is the largest component of medical spending, closely followed by professional services which, together, equals 60% of spending. A few days ago, TransUnion, the credit agency, announced plans to acquire Healthcare Payment Specialists.

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Accountable Care Medicare Medical Billing Pharmaceuticals 227