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 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. THE LARGER TREND.

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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

MARCH 4, 2021

A new advocacy group called Moving Health Home launched on Wednesday, bringing together some heavy hitters – major health systems, care delivery services and technology vendors – who say they want to effect a shift in thinking about treating patients at home, and want to adjust reimbursement models accordingly. WHY IT MATTERS.

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Health Populi

MAY 10, 2022

“Telehealth certainly appears to be here to stay,” the AARP forecasts in An Updated Look at Telehealth Use Among U.S. adults over 50 said they or someone in their family had used telehealth. adults 50 and over in February and March 2022, to gauge older peoples’ views on virtual care now and in the future.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 2, 2020

Burgess, R-Texas, introduced legislation aimed at increasing telehealth access, particularly for children. The Telehealth Improvement for Kids’ Essential Services, or TIKES, Act of 2020 would require the Secretary of the U.S. Blunt Rochester in a statement. WHY IT MATTERS.

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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 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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Health Populi

MARCH 11, 2021

2021 is the 20th anniversary of the University of Michigan Center for Value-Based Insurance Design (V-BID). Some of the most important areas of the Center’s impact include initiatives addressing low-value care, waste in U.S. The coolest thing in health policy in the 21st century!!

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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.,

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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 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 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. While some changes to the telehealth regulatory framework have already been made permanent (e.g., We spoke recently with Allison M.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Disclaimer: This blog article, “Mastering Remote Patient Monitoring Reimbursement: A Guide to Medicare Billing Success,” offers general information and is not a substitute for professional advice. Medicare, as a crucial player in healthcare reimbursement, plays a pivotal role in facilitating the adoption of RPM.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 6, 2023

Check out our community’s telehealth and RPM (Remote Patient Monitoring) predictions. Digitally-enabled care is the future of telehealth – “telehealth” has become industry norm since the start of the pandemic and used as a catchall term for everything from virtual doctor’s appointments to at-home testing kits.

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MeMD

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Virtual care, for example, has become an essential part of healthcare delivery. Early in the pandemic, telehealth utilization skyrocketed, as virtual care was a safe way to access necessary care. Today, virtual care has taken its place as a mainstay of the U.S. Telehealth Will Enhance Value-Based Care.

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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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TheraNest

MARCH 12, 2024

Most updates for 2024 target revisions to telehealth and Evaluation & Management (E/M) visits, both of which may affect mental and behavioral health providers. The value for these services is set to increase by 19.1% over a four-year period, with 2024 marking the first year for the increase.

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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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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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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 23, 2021

Telehealth proved its mettle this past year. 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. — John Halamka, M.D.,

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care innovations

DECEMBER 12, 2018

Changes to policy regarding telehealth and remote patient management (RPM) — and, specifically, changes affecting the reimbursement for these services offered by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) — are having an effect on the usage of digital delivery on the larger healthcare industry.

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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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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

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. Hospitals will also lobby hard to receive revenues from telehealth services.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 19, 2020

COVID-19 spurred Houston-based AccessHealth to quickly scale up its telemedicine offerings, just as it did with most other health systems nationwide. Doing this enabled patients to know that a telehealth visit did not mean less quality. Staff members were unsure if Medicare and Medicaid would honor the prospective payment-system rate.

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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. per month reimbursement rate.

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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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American Well

OCTOBER 8, 2017

Baird explains that for value-based care to succeed in both reducing costs and improving patients care, telehealth needs to be a key part of the equation. The current Medicare rules on telehealth are counter intuitive and an outdated way to care for patients.

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American Well

OCTOBER 8, 2017

Baird explains that for value-based care to succeed in both reducing costs and improving patients care, telehealth needs to be a key part of the equation. The current Medicare rules on telehealth are counter intuitive and an outdated way to care for patients.

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BHM Healthcare Solutions

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

Editor’s Note: Telehealth services extends networks beyond urban hubs and expands payers’ member enrollments. BHM offers services geared toward controlling expenses and integrating the behavioral health opportunities presented by measuring telehealth. Measuring Telehealth Domains. Access for care team.

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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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GlobalMed

DECEMBER 16, 2019

The report, which calls telehealth “one of the most promising quality of life opportunities in the United States today,” looks closely at the lack of broadband access in rural areas. The “Digital Divide” continues to haunt rural and remote areas that could most benefit from virtual care resources. Challenge: Broadband Internet.

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care innovations

APRIL 25, 2018

million in telehealth claims per year “did not meet Medicare requirements,” the Office of Inspector General (OIG) at the Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) has thrust new light upon America’s byzantine telemedicine reimbursement policies and the limitations they place on the expansion of value-based care.

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American Well

JANUARY 15, 2016

This week the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid (CMS) unveiled the Next Generation ACO Model , which allows select Medicare ACOs to assume more risk in service of pursuing efficient and effective patient care. By Kofi Jones, VP of Government Affairs, American Well.

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American Well

JANUARY 15, 2016

This week the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid (CMS) unveiled the Next Generation ACO Model , which allows select Medicare ACOs to assume more risk in service of pursuing efficient and effective patient care. By Kofi Jones, VP of Government Affairs, American Well.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

The 2024 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (PFS) Final Rule, set forth by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), brings pivotal updates in healthcare reimbursement. The implications of these changes extend to reimbursement strategies, service delivery methods, and overall patient care quality.

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