Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Value-based care continues to take root in healthcare. It's clear the future of reimbursement will at minimum include a heaping portion of providers being paid for value as opposed to volume. Telehealth has made a huge difference in delivering appropriate care to patients since the beginning of the pandemic.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

News and Studies The American Telemedicine Association released three tools aimed at addressing disparity and inequity in care : Digital Infrastructure Disparities Score and Map, Economic and Social Value-Added Calculator, and a toolkit including all previously released resources.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

In a virtual public meeting this past Friday, members of the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission discussed how – and whether – to permanently expand telehealth in Medicare. Before the pandemic, Medicare's physician fee schedule covered a limited set of telehealth services in rural locations.

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Henry Kotula

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

Expect insurers to accelerate programs and policies that cut costs and to push for value-based contracting as consumers demand more transparency in healthcare pricing. The past year has been an eventful one for payers, from the tumultuous Affordable Care Act (ACA) exchange markets to potential mega-mergers.

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Henry Kotula

AUGUST 5, 2020

examines how market forces are consolidating, rationalizing and redistributing acute care assets within the. broader industry movement to value-based care delivery. For a decade, the transition to value-based care has dominated debate within U.S. This article. Time will tell.

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Docnotes

JANUARY 30, 2022

These dollars were permitted to flow to sponsoring organizations (most of them medical care systems) in advance of any true performance expectations. Indeed – the first ½ of DSRIP funding (so – billions of dollars) flowed to medical care systems in advance of any expectation of improved health or reduced preventable spending.

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E-CareManagement

NOVEMBER 2, 2014

A number of pundits are citing the systemic failure of ACOs, after additional Pioneer ACOs announced withdrawal from the program – Where do you weigh in on the prognosis for Medicare and Commercial ACOs over the next several years?” ” Republished courtesy of MCOL. However, they are not magical.

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