Physician-hospital consolidation causes Medicare spending on labs, imaging to soar: study
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Evident Vascular Exits Stealth with $35 Million Series A Funding to Develop Intravascular Imaging Platform
Digital Health Global
OCTOBER 17, 2023
a medical technology startup developing a next-generation intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) platform leveraging artificial intelligence to enable superior imaging and streamlined workflows, announced today that it has launched with a $35 million Series A financing from Vensana Capital®. .–(BUSINESS
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Boston Medical Center launches new hospital-at-home program
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
APRIL 3, 2024
Monitoring devices to measure vital signs Backup power supply and backup internet Patients can also access the technology for inpatient case management resources, home-delivered meals, infusion therapies, mobile imaging, physical and occupational therapies and more.
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Frost & Sullivan's Top 10 predictions for healthcare in 2021
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
JANUARY 4, 2021
Financial/Revenue Cycle Management Population Health Precision Medicine Telehealth Workforce From vaccines to virtual care, enterprise imaging to precision medicine, these are the growth areas that will shape the direction of healthcare, this year and beyond. Much like hospitals, imaging centers also suffered significant losses in 2020.
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Swift Medical Expands Leadership Team with Appointment of New CCO and CIO
Digital Health Global
AUGUST 22, 2023
Chronic wounds are the leading risk factor for hospitalizations, with almost 20% of the Medicare population experiencing a chronic wound at any given time. Conservative estimates for the yearly cost of wound care in the U.S.
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Medicare Opens the Door to Reimbursement for Remote Patient Monitoring
Digital Health Today
APRIL 25, 2019
When CMS unveiled the first standalone reimbursement for Remote Patient Monitoring (“RPM”) by “unbundling” CPT Code 99091 in the 2018 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule , it opened the door to the widespread use of RPM services for patients and promised there was more to come. Virtual Check-Ins and Remote Evaluation of Patient-Generated Images.
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Bonus Features – November 12, 2023 – 93% of clinicians use RPM in cardiac care rehab, telehealth flexibilities remain in place until the end of 2024, plus 25 more stories
Healthcare IT Today
NOVEMBER 12, 2023
News The 2024 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule continues many telehealth flexibilities first adopted during the public health emergency, such as an expanded scope of originating sites an expanded definition of qualified practitioners. Radical Imaging has integrated FlexView with arcc , the imaging platform form Apollo.
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Swift Medical’s Growth Continues with Appointment of Drew Narayan as SVP of Sales and Marketing
Digital Health Global
SEPTEMBER 19, 2023
Prior to that, he led multi-million-dollar advertising strategies for Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina, including their go-to-market strategy of Medicare Part D plans. “I Most recently, Narayan served as the Chief Commercial Officer for PeriGen, Inc.,
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Walmart In Talks to Acquire ChenMed
Digital Health Wire
SEPTEMBER 18, 2023
Here’s a quick primer on Walmart’s healthcare strategy, which so-far can be bucketed into three themes: Medicare and MA health plans, primary care, and employer virtual care. The 30 current locations provide primary care, urgent care, labs, imaging, optometry, audiology, and even dentistry.
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Why are older adults demeaned by the health and tech industry?
Aging in Place Technology Watch
JANUARY 23, 2020
Just check out the first page or two of the millions of identified references – including the images of older women ‘holding it wrong’ or ‘ confused.’ No wonder HIMSS session folks thought this was no big deal. Think of that as you study the Shutterstock images of what grandma presumably looks like. . With persuasion?
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New technologies may mitigate fall risk – and just in time
Aging in Place Technology Watch
AUGUST 31, 2022
And that the costs (estimated at $754 million in 2015) were mostly paid by Medicare and Medicaid (the latter likely in nursing homes.) Or Vayyar Care , touchless fall detection, or SafelyYou , recording the image and possible cause of the fall. . What about SensorsCall – that can send a caregiver a clip of a loud sound.
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Bonus Features – April 21, 2024 – 89% of physicians said generative AI vendors need to be transparent about where info comes from, 73% of consumers expect a 4-star rating before they’ll engage with a provider, plus 21 more stories
Healthcare IT Today
APRIL 21, 2024
Research from Inovalon and Harvard Medical School found enrollees in Medicare Advantage HMO plans tend to be more socioeconomically disadvantaged than enrollees of MA PPO plans. Partnerships Google Cloud announced partnerships with Path AI (pathology imaging) and TetraScience (extracting insights from drug discovery data).
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Study: In-home healthcare expansion requires overcoming market and technical barriers
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
SEPTEMBER 3, 2020
Such potential services include e-consults, computer-based cognitive behavioral therapy, digital image-enabled dermatology, and apps for behavioral modification such as smoking cessation, among others. Auerswald notes that the future of in-home care, though uncertain, is likely to expand beyond what is currently available.
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Bonus Features – April 28, 2024 – 22% of employers fully trust chronic condition management vendors, Common Agreement v2.0 requires support for FHIR API exchange, plus 29 more stories
Healthcare IT Today
APRIL 28, 2024
Sales Cohere Health and Humana expanded their prior authorization partnership to include diagnostic imaging and sleep services. People Medicare ACO Vytalize Health appointed Sherry Slick as Chief Information Officer and Charles Colligan as Chief Financial Officer.
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Bonus Features – November 26, 2023 – 85% of healthcare orgs boosting IT spending in 2024, 70% of orgs actively considering generative AI, plus 18 more stories
Healthcare IT Today
NOVEMBER 26, 2023
This is due in large part to increased expenses (from 25$ for labor to 90% for maintenance) and revenue reductions from denials (more than 20% from commercial plans and nearly 60% from Medicare Advantage plans). More than 85% of health systems are increasing IT and digital budgets for 2024 , a Guidehouse analysis found.
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The Promise of Telehealth for Older People – the U-M National Poll on Healthy Aging
Health Populi
OCTOBER 3, 2019
Older people are re-framing their personal images and definitions of aging, from continuing to work past typical retirement age, Skyping and texting with grandchildren, and traveling to destinations well beyond the “snowbird” locales of Florida and Arizona to more active and often charitable/volunteer situations in developing economies.
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Bonus Features – June 26, 2022 – Walgreens gets into clinical trials, ONC offering SDOH grants, and more
Healthcare IT Today
JUNE 26, 2022
Imaging vendors Intelerad Medical Systems and DiA Imaging Analysis have come together to offer DiA’s LVivo Seamless AI-based cardiac ultrasound software as part of Intelerad’s cardiac imaging product known as IntelePACS.
Four tech and aging blog posts from September 2019
Aging in Place Technology Watch
OCTOBER 7, 2019
But as inevitable as those changes are, other notable events occurred during September – including AARP’s partnership with Getty Images to combat age bias in advertising. Getty images show advertising’s ageist stereotypes. Fall and red leaves arrived as typical late in the month.
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Health/Care Everywhere – Re-Imagining Healthcare at ATA 2019
Health Populi
APRIL 14, 2019
This graphic is one image from my deck, which organizes a continuum of physical to virtual care platforms, and vertical applications from home care to food and grocery, pharmacy, retail, wearables and Internet of Things devices, and telemedicine channels.
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Bonus Features – February 4, 2024 – 67% of healthcare pros say the top use case for AI is improving the digital front door, 78% of healthcare shift workers have trouble covering living expenses, plus 25 more stories
Healthcare IT Today
FEBRUARY 4, 2024
Increased utilization of physical therapy for Medicare patients with knee and hip pain reduces healthcare costs by up to $4,000 annually , according to the latest research from Luna. Pediatrix Medical Group deployed Sonio for prenatal care reporting and image management. It’s the company’s first customer in the U.S.
Telemedicine Billing: GT, 95 & GQ Modifier Differences
Mend
JANUARY 10, 2024
Ultimately, the decision to use the GT modifier should be made by taking into consideration the guidelines and regulations set forth by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and other relevant authorities. Asynchronous telemedicine means that medical care is provided via image and video but not in real-time.
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Intermountain expands reach, broadens offerings of hospital at home program
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
AUGUST 6, 2021
Homecare caregivers make in-person visits according to individually prescribed care plans; mobile imaging and lab services are also available. To be eligible for hospital-level care at home, patients must have SelectHealth insurance, either SelectHealth commercial, Medicare Advantage, Medicaid or be self-pay. THE LARGER TREND.
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Billing Telehealth Updates for the South Central Region – December 2020
South Central Telehealth Resource Center
JANUARY 12, 2021
Cigna and Medicare have both rolled out significant permanent telehealth changes, with Cigna implementing a new Virtual Care Policy and Medicare implementing several additional permanent flexibilities. Medicare: No Changes. Medicare created two new HCPCS codes, G2250 & G2251, for virtual check-ins for these provider types.
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Tweets at Lunch with Paul Krugman – Health IT Meets Economics
Health Populi
MARCH 7, 2018
There’s an old saw that the US government is an insurance company with an army” quips @PaulKrugman @HIMSS #HIMSS18 #HX360 #Healthinsurance #Medicare #Healthcare #Healthcosts. During Krugman’s conversation with Hal Wolf, HIMSS CEO, I live-tweeted the pearls of wisdom that resonated with me. More #nurses than #miners #healthcosts.
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The healthcare executive’s guide to AI
Redox
OCTOBER 12, 2023
Generative AI is a form of ML that produces text, video, images, and other content based on a training data set. Also, it can analyze images, videos, and unstructured data in ways ML can’t easily do. Typically, DL needs less ongoing human intervention than ML. Two states have enacted such measures.
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What Health IT Trend Has You Most Excited?
Healthcare IT Today
FEBRUARY 28, 2024
This once-in-a-generation evolution will change how healthcare looks and operates over the next 6-12 months with changes lasting through the decade—especially considering CMS is committed to having 100 percent of Medicare and the majority of Medicaid on value-based reimbursement by 2030.
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CMS Proposes”CMS-0057-P” to Streamline Prior Authorizations with Real-Time Approvals Using Interoperability in Healthcare
Telebehavioral Health Institute
DECEMBER 21, 2022
Medicare and a supplemental plan) to receive care from multiple providers (e.g., Interoperability is essential in healthcare because it allows providers to access and use relevant patient information from different sources, such as electronic health records (EHRs), lab results, psychological testing, and radiology images.
To connect older adults, when will a trend convert to a mandate?
Aging in Place Technology Watch
JULY 28, 2020
Consumers are on board with telehealth , and engagement technologies like smartphones and tablets are offered through Medicare Advantage , plus a wave of other pandemic-related tactics and free offerings appeared. Between boosting the deployment of telehealth technologies, once-delayed initiatives became instantly late.
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Cardio Diagnostics Holdings, Inc. Enters Into a Nationwide Telehealth Agreement with Navierre
Digital Health Global
APRIL 4, 2024
Current solutions for assessing the risk for and diagnosing heart disease such as CT imaging are not highly scalable due to the need for specialized infrastructure that is not readily available nationwide, especially in rural America. According to McKinsey , up to $250 billion of U.S. healthcare spending could be virtualized.
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88 What the CONNECT for Health Act could mean for patients and the federal budget
American Well
OCTOBER 8, 2017
The current Medicare rules on telehealth are counter intuitive and an outdated way to care for patients. Current policy restricts utilization of and reimbursement for telehealth by narrowly defining conditions around eligibility for Medicare coverage. Today, Medicare does not cover: “Store?and?forward”
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What the CONNECT for Health Act could mean for patients and the federal budget
American Well
OCTOBER 8, 2017
The current Medicare rules on telehealth are counter intuitive and an outdated way to care for patients. Current policy restricts utilization of and reimbursement for telehealth by narrowly defining conditions around eligibility for Medicare coverage. Today, Medicare does not cover: “Store?and?forward”
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CMS launches Acute Hospital Care at Home program to help with COVID-19 surge
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
NOVEMBER 25, 2020
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services on Wednesday took several new steps to help U.S. It found the cost of care was nearly 40% lower for home patients than control patients – with fewer lab orders, less imaging and had fewer consultations. hospitals manage the crush of new patients as the COVID-19 crisis worsens.
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Bowing to physician pressure, CMS delays visit code changes
Henry Kotula
NOVEMBER 4, 2018
Yesterday the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) finalized the 2019 Physician Fee Schedule (PFS ), announcing they will delay implementation of changes to physician evaluation and management (E&M) codes until 2021. Along with the two-year delay, CMS also raised base rates, and created an additional code for complex visits.
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32 Bonus Features – November 13, 2022 – HCA extends 30-year relationship with MEDITECH, cost of care replaces pandemic as top reason to defer care, and more
Healthcare IT Today
NOVEMBER 13, 2022
More than 80% of all claims denials are associated with Medicare , according to the latest annual benchmark report from RCM and auditing software maker MDaudit. Medical image sharing platform PocketHealth launched Record Retrieval to help providers automatically request records from legacy imaging sistems such as PACS and VNAs.
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7 Highlights from ViVE
Xealth
MARCH 30, 2023
She literally joked about getting the X-ray images mailed to her on a CD. The shift to home-based care is happening and an estimated $265 billion of Medicare services could be delivered in the home by 2025! Timely reference: while at the conference, my friend’s mom broke her arm in St. It’s 2023, this should not be a problem.
Health systems are notching big wins with their IT investments
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
AUGUST 8, 2023
By Bill Siwicki | June 15, 2023 News How one practice's EHR helped offset its declining Medicare reimbursements The all-in-one practice management system reduced the amount of time a patient needs to spend in.
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Upcoming Healthcare Regulations and Their Impact on Healthcare IT
Healthcare IT Today
AUGUST 28, 2023
physicians, hospital care, freestanding imaging centers, ambulatory surgical centers, etc.) cut to physicians who treat the country’s most vulnerable patients through Medicare. 2474 – dubbed the “Strengthening Medicare for Patients and Providers Act.”
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Brigham and Women's and Biofourmis codevelop home hospital technology
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
JANUARY 11, 2021
In November, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services took several new steps to help U.S. Previously with Medicare, programs like mine had no way to bill for care. Now this is the opportunity to bill Medicare for home hospital-level care, and this is going to be offered all across the country."
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Bonus Features – December 4, 2022 – 34% of Americans take anti-anxiety meds during the holidays, hospital margins at -2% but show signs of hope, and more
Healthcare IT Today
DECEMBER 4, 2022
In addition, Nuance added two health systems to the Nuance Precision Imaging Network : Baptist Health in Kentucky and Einstein Healthcare in Pennsylvania. Medicare ACO platform Vytalize Health named Frank Bordonaro as Senior VP of Value-Based Care and Network Development.
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Will Teleparamedicine Save Your Life?
GlobalMed
JANUARY 21, 2020
Intended to “provide greater flexibility to ambulance care teams to address emergency health care needs of Medicare beneficiaries following a 911 call,” ET3 puts telemedicine firmly in the ambulance and paramedic world as a reimbursable event. Why is this noteworthy? Clinical Options and Cost Savings.
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Bonus Features – November 19, 2023 – Critical access hospitals 16% less likely to participate in data exchange, two-thirds of orgs plan to increase AI spending by 25% in the next three years, plus 36 more stories
Healthcare IT Today
NOVEMBER 19, 2023
A Humana study found that Medicare Advantage members covered under value-based care arrangements completed preventive screenings at a 14.6% PocketHealth launched MyCare Navigator to help patients follow up on care after receiving imaging results. Oly 51% are confident that hospital rooms are properly disinfected.
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94 On National Rural Health Day, We Recommit to Improving Rural Health
CMS.gov
NOVEMBER 15, 2018
Administrator, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Approximately 60 million people live in rural areas – including millions of Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries. Also, Medicare will now pay separately for Remote Evaluation of Recorded Video and/or Images Submitted by the Patient. Jeremy.Booth@c…. Seema Verma.
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How UPMC's virtual-first healthcare model works
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
FEBRUARY 28, 2023
"When sometimes, a lab or image is necessary, patients can use one of more than 160 local brick-and-mortar locations closest to their homes," he continued. "Patients can see primary care physicians for their initial or follow-up visit, be treated for chronic conditions like hypertension or acute conditions like the flu, etc.,"
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Essential Telemedicine Terms Clinicians Should Know
Enzyme Health
JUNE 19, 2019
CMS : Stands for the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services. CMS is the federal agency that administers HIPAA standards and develops Medicaid and Medicare reimbursement policies for telemedicine. HD video requires faster internet connection speeds for proper image transmission.
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