Health Populi

AUGUST 25, 2020

In the Fear of Going Out Era spawned by the COVID-19 pandemic, many patients were loath to go to the doctor’s office for medical care, and even less keen on entering a hospital clinic’s doors. In May 2019, 14% of older patients’ health care providers offered telehealth visits, growing to 62% in June 2020 during the pandemic.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 5, 2022

Some changes to the Medicare Benefits Schedule for telehealth items in Australia – including the termination of 128 items, amendment of 17 items, and the addition of two more items – have taken effect this week. Some healthcare leaders in the country have pointed out potential consequences of the MBS telehealth changes.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

expressing support for the Telehealth Modernization Act and stressing the urgency of safeguarding access to virtual care before the public health emergency is set to expire. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., WHY IT MATTERS. In its letter, the CHI supported these provisions and urged Alexander and his colleagues to go further.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 17, 2022

The Australian government is briefly subsidising some telehealth services as it deals with a new COVID-19 outbreak. These include specialist inpatient video and phone consultation items under the Medicare Benefits Schedule, complex specialist telephone consultations and level C or longer telephone consultations for general practitioners.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 13, 2021

A group of legislators from the House Ways and Means Health Subcommittee have introduced a bill aimed at temporarily extending telehealth flexibilities established during the COVID-19 pandemic. The bill, the Telehealth Extension Act , would also end geographic and site restrictions on approved telemedicine services for Medicare beneficiaries.

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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 News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 12, 2021

The Australian government has set aside A$106 million ($76 million) over four years to support what it calls "permanent" telehealth, which will ensure flexibility in healthcare delivery and continuous health consultations via phone or online. Around 89,000 providers are now using telehealth services. WHY IT MATTERS.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 8, 2021

The medical group for Walmart Health has filed paperwork to do business in more than a dozen more states – and a spokesperson told Insider that the moves are not related to physical clinics. Instead, the preparation regards the retail giant's pending acquisition of telehealth vendor MeMD earlier this year. WHY IT MATTERS.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 18, 2020

The HHS Office for Civil Rights announced on Tuesday that during the coronavirus pandemic it will use discretion when enforcing HIPAA-compliance for telehealth communications tools. The agency also specifies that Facebook Live, Twitch, TikTok, other public-facing video communication "should not be used in the provision of telehealth."

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Health Populi

MAY 21, 2020

45% felt uncomfortable using an urgent care or walk-in clinic, and, 38% intended to delay future care, treatment, and procedures. Among those covered with insurance, one-half had employer-sponsored insurance, 1 in 4 Medicare, and 13%, individual cover. 42% felt uncomfortable going to a hospital for any medical treatment.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 30, 2023

The Australian National Audit Office has conducted a review of the expansion of telehealth services across the country by the Department of Health and Aged Care in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. FINDINGS Based on the state audit , the department fell short in governance, risk management, and evaluation of the telehealth expansion.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Of all the payors consistently funded to expand telehealth in the immediate future, Medicare stands head and shoulders above many others. On October 8, the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released the final CY 2023 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (PFS) rule.

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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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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 10, 2023

As part of a new collaboration with the Connecticut Children's Care Network, Nest Collaborative will provide unlimited same-day telehealth appointments with certified lactation consultants for parents in need of prenatal and perinatal breastfeeding support. WHY IT MATTERS. The collaborative says IBCLCs are the gold standard of care.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

MARCH 9, 2023

Private payers, Medicaid, and Medicare initiated widespread telehealth reimbursement approvals. The article below clarifies and summarizes the end-of-pandemic reimbursement decisions made by private payers, Medicare, and Medicaid. Resources for other end-of-pandemic decisions are also provided.

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Health Populi

MARCH 12, 2020

Will the coronavirus inspire greater adoption of telehealth in the U.S.? A couple of intriguing examples: Ali Health, part of Alibaba (the e-commerce giant), launched a free online clinic in locked-down Hubei (whose capital is Wuhan) where in five days, 100,000 patients received remote consultations. The President signed the $8.3

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Health Populi

JUNE 27, 2022

The full report speaks to medical spending and utilization trends for preventive care, telehealth, and behavioral health. Based on their analysis of medical claims, insured workers’ clinical risk scores increased by 9.3%, from 1.18 You can access state-by-state specifics on the Castlight Health supplemental dataset portal ].

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

The White House recently announced a two-year extension for telehealth waivers, but higher telehealth coverage for physicians and hospitals is only approved through the end of 2023. Executives invested in technology and infrastructure for telehealth to meet the unprecedented demand for telehealth services.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 29, 2022

million commercially insured adults in the United States who sought care via telehealth found contrasting patterns of follow-up care between those with chronic conditions and those with acute clinical conditions. Many previous large studies of telehealth use have relied on Medicare data. A study of 40.7 WHY IT MATTERS.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

"The future of mental health care requires omnichannel care where telehealth plays a role in a larger continuum of treatments," said Dr. Carlene MacMillan, vice president of clinical innovation at Osmind, in a statement. WHY IT MATTERS. "Zoom offers a strong product with a powerful user experience over alternatives.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

million commercially insured and Medicare Advantage enrollees from January through June 2020. Telehealth has been hailed as a panacea for unequal access to care, but the data has repeatedly suggested otherwise. By contrast, specialties such as ophthalmology lost most of their clinical volume early in the pandemic.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

AUGUST 17, 2022

Judging from the numbers, telehealth is becoming increasingly popular across the country. National telehealth utilization rates among private insurers grew by 10.2% in May, signaling that telehealth utilization is a serious contender for mental health and serious pandemic interventions. in May, up from the 4.9% nationally.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 10, 2020

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has temporarily suspended several regulations to enable hospitals, clinics and other providers to boost their front-line medical staff during the coronavirus pandemic. "It’s all hands on deck during this crisis," said CMS Administrator Seema Verma in a statement.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 5, 2022

As Iris Telehealth's chief medical officer, Dr. Milam has served in leadership roles throughout his psychiatric career and spearheaded the telepsychiatry initiative at the Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine and Research Institute, where he still serves as an associate professor. More than three-quarters of U.S.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 30, 2020

Three hundred and forty healthcare organizations published an open letter Monday asking Senate and House leaders to permanently enshrine changes to policies that would make telehealth accessible in the long term. introduced legislation earlier this month to codify Medicare reimbursement of virtual care at FQHCs and RHCs.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 1, 2020

When the United States reported its first COVID-19 case in January 2020, the Medical University of South Carolina activated its telehealth response – months before swathes of other health systems rapidly pivoted to virtual care. Some departments such as psychiatry and primary care were exceeding their pre-pandemic clinical volumes.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 9, 2020

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has put together further detailed guidance for how healthcare providers should be documenting and reporting electronic clinical quality measures for telehealth encounters. The 39 telehealth-eligible eCQMs for the 2021 performance period can be found here.

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Digital Health Wire

MAY 2, 2024

Walmart’s five-year foray into primary care is ending with the closure of 51 health centers, the shuttering of its telehealth service, and the cancellation of any active ambitions in the space. Mainly because retail clinics aren’t set up to succeed. Scaling brick-and-mortar clinics is simply a low margin endeavor.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 27, 2022

COVID-19 transformed the delivery of care, making the use of telehealth tools highly beneficial – and a priority area for research. Healthcare IT News interviewed Booker and Ratwani to learn more about their work and how it can inform leaders following and advancing the future of telehealth. Since health systems across the U.S.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 22, 2024

CPT 99457 is for spending a minimum of 20 minutes of clinical staff time providing care management services related to patient readings and their treatment plan. Finally, CPT 99458 is used when such clinical staff time reaches 40 minutes, and then a second 99458 can be billed at 60 minutes. Medicare was the first to cover RPM.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 22, 2022

billion in alleged fraud involving telehealth, phony genetic testing and durable medical equipment. Department of Justice announced the coordinated law enforcement action, which includes criminal charges against executives from virtual care vendors, owners of clinical laboratories and makers of durable medical equipment, among others.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 3, 2020

Patient and provider telehealth use has skyrocketed since the novel coronavirus began spreading across the United States – and analysts point to a " tsunami of growth " as virtual care, after years of frustrated promise, becomes the new normal. Telehealth in the long term. Now, it's for everyone.

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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. WHY IT MATTERS.

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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. The distant site for purposes of telehealth can be different from the administrative location. WHY IT MATTERS. THE LARGER TREND.

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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. These codes, according to the proposal, are intended to be used to understand the effectiveness of and the patient's response to a prescribed therapy.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 25, 2022

The first is focused on protecting access to care via the telehealth flexibilities that have enabled broad expansion and uptake of virtual care since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. HIMSS is calling on healthcare stakeholders to get involved in two initiatives to help expand access to quality care for underserved and at-risk populations.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

AUGUST 4, 2022

On July 27, 2022, Congresswoman Liz Cheney (R-WY) and Congresswoman Debbie Dingell (D-MI) celebrated the House passage of their Advancing Telehealth Beyond COVID–19 Act of 2022. It extends critical Medicare telehealth policies and is implemented during the pandemic through December 31, 2024. – Rep. – Rep.

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