Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

The Center for Connected Health Policy has published a 21-page guide intended to help providers with telehealth-based Medicare and Medicaid reimbursements. WHY IT MATTERS. The distant site for purposes of telehealth can be different from the administrative location.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 10, 2023

Company Adds Two Board Members and a Senior Executive to Lead its Medicare Advantage Business Aledade , the largest network of independent primary care practices in the country, today announced the closing of a $260 million Series F funding round to enhance and acquire services and technology to support its practices.

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Continue Education Journal

AUGUST 31, 2022

WASHINGTON, DC, AUGUST 31, 2022 – The American Telemedicine Association (ATA) and ATA Action issued the following statement in response to today’s publication of a study authored by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, and the National Institute on Drug Abuse. About ATA Action.

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Health Populi

MAY 25, 2021

For telehealth, that S-curve has had a very long and fairly flat front-end of the “S” followed by a hockey stick trajectory in March and April 2020 as the COVID-19 pandemic was an exogenous shock to in-person health care delivery. Access to care, covering both availability (e.g., throughput rates).

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

According to HHS, the rules will allow healthcare providers to participate in value-based arrangements with more flexibility and will ease compliance burdens. The agency's final rules come as part of its efforts to examine the federal regulations potentially standing in the way of advancing value-based care.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 7, 2023

The company continues to be the largest network of independent primary care in the country, with more than two million patients covered by more than 150 value-based contracts across Medicare, Medicare Advantage, Medicaid and commercial payers.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Telehealth visits billed to Medicare are currently paid at the same fee-for-service rate as an in-person visit. Medicare added over 100 billing codes for the duration of the public health emergency. CMS will continue this higher Medicare reimbursement rate for 2023, but the future depends on legislators planning 2024’s PFS.

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Connected Health Initiative

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

With the right legal and policy backdrop, digital health tools will play a bigger and bigger role in healthcare. They offer a huge opportunity to improve patient care, reduce hospitalizations, avoid complications, and improve patient engagement—all while reducing costs. 31, 2022), available at [link].

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 24, 2018

Stress is a way of American life, based on the findings in The United States of Stress , a survey from Everyday Health. Election outcomes, public policies, and unemployment which underpins financial ill-health, is evident across-the-board. One in three working-age people in the U.S. have seen a doctor about something stress-related.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

JANUARY 18, 2023

Medicare-approved Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) has become an increasingly important aspect of healthcare delivery. Remote monitoring through telehealth services has enabled healthcare providers to provide more efficient and effective care to patients, especially those enrolled in Medicare and Medicaid Services.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 16, 2020

House of Representatives on Thursday aims to ensure telehealth is able to continue to build on its potential in the years ahead, by making permanent some policies enacted during the pandemic and protecting Medicare beneficiaries' ability to engage in virtual care. WHY IT MATTERS.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 2, 2020

Secretary of Health and Human Services Alex Azar and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator Seema Verma to provide a written plan for permanent changes to Medicare, Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program rules around telehealth. THE LARGER TREND. ON THE RECORD.

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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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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 12, 2022

Its impact on senior care has sparked some conversations around the future of the industry. But to make substantial changes to the way we care for seniors, a bigger conversation needs to happen among providers, payers and policy experts. . T3: What is the potential role of future healthcare policies regarding SDoH?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 27, 2021

Leading healthcare industry stakeholders on Monday implored top leaders in the House and Senate to help ensure, among other imperatives, that "Medicare beneficiaries [don't] abruptly lose access to nearly all recently expanded coverage of telehealth." This would have a chilling effect on access to care across the entire U.S.

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Connected Health Initiative

JULY 14, 2021

New CHI Report Finds Digital Health Technologies Must Play a Critical Role in Shifting American Healthcare Away from Fee-For-Service and Toward More Equitable and Effective Care. Conventionally, payment of healthcare providers is based on the volume of services delivered to patients, which is called the fee-for-service (FFS) model.

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Connected Health Initiative

JUNE 2, 2023

Dear Chairman Smith, Ranking Member Neal, Chairman Buchanan, and Ranking Member Doggett: I am writing in response to your May 10 hearing, titled “Examining Policies that Inhibit Innovation and Patient Access.” For example, RPM and RTM are both subject to the 20 percent copay required for Medicare coverage.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 8, 2022

And, with broad-based support to avoid the "telehealth cliff," healthcare organizations and legislators have been working hard to ensure virtual care flexibilities outlast the PHE. But sooner or later, that provision of the Public Health Service Act will draw to a close. We spoke recently with Allison M.

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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

OCTOBER 2, 2020

"The COVID-19 pandemic has allowed for us to make rapid progress on expanding access to telehealth so children and families across the country, especially those in rural and underserved communities, face fewer barriers to accessing medical care," said Rep. Blunt Rochester in a statement. healthcare system. Mike Thompson, D-Calif.,

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

In the latest Medicare Physician Fee Schedule, the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services proposed for the first time a set of CPT codes for remote therapeutic monitoring. How will CMS' proposed remote therapeutic monitoring codes enhance patients' quality of care? consumers want virtual care services.

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Connected Health Initiative

JANUARY 27, 2021

(WASHINGTON, DC) January 27, 2021 - Today, the Connected Health Initiative (CHI) announced the formation of a new Value-Based Care Task Force within CHI to identify key legislative and regulatory changes needed to advance value-based care by incorporating digital health tools in the American healthcare system.

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TheraNest

MARCH 12, 2024

Increased RVU for Some Services In 2024, mental and behavioral health providers can expect increased relative value units (RVUs) for crisis care, psychotherapy, health behavior assessment and intervention (HBAI), and substance use disorder treatment. The value for these services is set to increase by 19.1%

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 23, 2021

Now more hospitals and health systems are looking to expand their efforts beyond video visit-based virtual care, and push for expanded remote patient monitoring programs – up to and including the provision of acute care at home. Telehealth proved its mettle this past year. — John Halamka, M.D.,

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Connected Health Initiative

JULY 14, 2021

But underutilization of digital health technologies is still present, and policy recommendations need to better enable connected health technologies to improve health outcomes and reduce costs. From a cost perspective, chronic illnesses account for 75 percent of the $2.2 trillion we spend on healthcare each year in the United States.

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care innovations

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

In an effort to combat the runaway costs endemic to the American healthcare industry, The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has announced a series of changes to its Medicare Advantage (MA) plans that could open the door for private senior living providers to seize the opportunities of remote patient management (RPM) services.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 12, 2023

A 2019 survey by the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation’s Office of Health Policy found that the highest rates of telehealth visits happened among people with Medicaid (29.3%) and Medicare (27.4%), Black individuals (26.8%), and those earning less than $25,000 (26.7%).

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Neil Batlivala, Co-Founder and CEO at Pair Team Soon, we’re going to start to see large language models (LLMs) making it very cheap for translation services that can be brought directly to the point of care. The newest tools like large language models can compound these challenges, as they can also generate even more value for patients.

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care innovations

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Just as it did for the 2018 calendar year , the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is seeking to further expand reimbursement for remote patient monitoring, virtual visits and other telehealth services as part of its proposed 2019 Medicare physician fee schedule. 2019 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule: 3 Key Takeaways.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Changes are afoot in the way insurers and governments pay for the drugs and treatments patients need-and a big part of that change includes a move towards value-based contracting, with prices set based on the outcome of treatments.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 24, 2021

“Racial and ethnic inequities in the US health care system have been unremitting since the beginning of the country. The coronavirus pandemic has changed so many aspects of American health care for so many people, including doctors. health care.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 19, 2024

Alaina Victoria, PT, DPT, Marketing and Sales Enablement Manager at OneStep With more patients looking for novel care options, technology has stepped in to bridge the gap between in-person care and everyday life.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 6, 2020

more patients than ever are turning to telehealth for care – eschewing overcrowded emergency rooms and dormant physician practices in favor of virtual consults. " Although the study specifically focused on patients seeking care in New York, Testa said that it shows "the generalizability of telehealth."

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Founded in 2006 by healthcare leaders, NYeC works to help New York State achieve the Triple Aim of improving the patient experience of care, delivering better health outcomes, and reducing costs. NYeC is propelling healthcare forward by facilitating the use of new and innovative technologies that will improve patient care.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Sarah Carroll, Senior Vice President, Center for Care Transformation at AVIA Health Medicaid and Medicare have become one of the biggest quiet crises in health systems today. Getting AI tools into the hands of those who need them most – physicians at the point of care – is an uphill battle.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

In their September, 2020 Aging in Place report, the authors note that demographics, regulatory and policy changes (aka reimbursement via Medicare Advantage plans), and Covid-19’s boosted use of digital health combine to make this a pivotal point. Our team of Care Advocates use cutting-edge tools to get you the best price.”

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BHM Healthcare Solutions

APRIL 19, 2023

Health plans will need to find innovative ways to control costs while still providing high-quality care to their members. This includes changes to the Affordable Care Act (ACA), as well as new regulations around privacy and data security.

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