Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Perhaps the reasons could be the Medicare-paid post-acute rehab care, in-room wound and IV treatments, and Medicaid-reimbursed daily rate. Perhaps many years in assisted living consumed family assets and an elder law attorney helped with the move to a Medicaid-eligible nursing home ? .

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Nursing Medicare Telehealth 125

Aging in Place Technology Watch

APRIL 13, 2022

The news articles pile up – assisted living and nursing home staffing shortages ; stranding older adults without home health care ; keeping patients in hospitals longer because of lack of care; nursing home staffing crisis ; Medicaid paying family members to provide care , low wages and low unemployment worsen care situation , and on and on.

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Nursing Telemedicine Telehealth 124

Aging in Place Technology Watch

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Meanwhile the Hometeam remaining assets were absorbed into HT Health and renamed Vesta Health in 2020 , with a $30 million Series A round and a focus on the reimbursed Medicaid market. category tags: Home Care , tech-enabled home care. Investors inhis market should reflect on its numerous and worsening issues. And if so, when?

Nursing 133

Nursing Medicare 133

Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Furthermore, shrinking reimbursement rates for rehabilitation/nursing home stays and reduction in Medicaid coverage boosts risks to those frail elderly who are most likely to be readmitted to the hospital post-discharge and who may be least equipped to take care of themselves. category tags: tech-enabled home care , Home Care.

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Nursing 128

Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 24, 2020

Note United Healthcae’s reimbursement of E-Visits and Virtual Check-ins (including Medicaid patients until June 18). category tags: Telehealth-mHealth-Voice Health. This is an acknowledgement of the emerging reimbursement of some home care services by Medicare Advantage. If not now, when?

Remote care 71

Remote care mHealth Telehealth Medicare 71

Aging in Place Technology Watch

JUNE 13, 2023

A mishmash of service types leapt into the market -- including new startups, Medicaid reimbursement and partnerships with other services. category tags: tech-enabled home care , Home Care , AI and machine learning , Conversational and generative AI , AgeTech

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Nursing 130

Aging in Place Technology Watch

MAY 5, 2020

What were the top issues early in the year? " Challenges facing nursing homes serving primarily long-stay residents covered by Medicaid; workforce challenges , which are unlikely to dissipate; nursing home regulations; and the growing popularity of Medicare Advantage.". category tags: SNF , Seniors , Aging , healthcare , covid-19.

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Nursing Medicare 106

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Caravan Health President and CEO Tim Gronniger previously was chief of staff and director of delivery system reform at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. While Congress and CMS have considered permanently expanding access to telehealth and virtual care, there is a big price tag attached.

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Accountable Care Medicare Telehealth Public Health 166

Aging in Place Technology Watch

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

The federal “Money Follows the Person” was introduced in 2005 to enable seniors to avoid them and receive Medicaid-paid services. Read more. category tags: Skilled Nursing Facilities (SNF) , smartphones, cellphones , social isolation For 14 years, Florida banned new nursing home construction.

Nursing 69

Nursing Medicare 69

Aging in Place Technology Watch

MAY 27, 2020

The spike has been attributed to a) the declaration of a state of emergency in March; b) introduction of Medicare/Medicaid coverage matching in-person visits; and c) encouragement from hospitals and medical practitioners. . A technology transformation is underway, greater than the sum of its parts.

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Remote care Telehealth Nursing Medicare 94

David Chou

MARCH 25, 2023

The move comes at a price tag of $3.9 The limitation with RxPass is that government-funded insurance such as Medicare or Medicaid is not eligible, and RxPass is not currently available to send medications to California, Louisiana, Maryland, Minnesota, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, Texas, and Washington.

Primary Care 52

Primary Care Medicare 52

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 4, 2021

Hospitals will negotiate hard with Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and Medicare Advantage plans to be paid on a per month basis to ensure there is a continuous revenue stream, moving away totally from a fee-for-service agreement. They will seek supplier agreements that are more long term with lower upfront investments.

Telehealth 212

Telehealth Interoperability Medicare Pharmaceuticals 212

Aging in Place Technology Watch

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

And that the costs (estimated at $754 million in 2015) were mostly paid by Medicare and Medicaid (the latter likely in nursing homes.) category tags: hearables/hearing technology , computers, broadband, and social networking , fall prevention, fall detection. Read more. .

Nursing 69

Nursing Medicare 69

Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

However, in April of 2018, top executives stepped down , including the new president who had only been on board 5 months -- as the firm pivoted to B2B service for the dual-eligible (Medicare, Medicaid) model in its same region. category tags: Home Care , tech-enabled home care. Was that last $27.5

Medicare 120

Medicare 120

Aging in Place Technology Watch

MAY 5, 2020

What were the top issues early in the year? " Challenges facing nursing homes serving primarily long-stay residents covered by Medicaid; workforce challenges , which are unlikely to dissipate; nursing home regulations; and the growing popularity of Medicare Advantage.". category tags: SNF , Seniors , Aging , healthcare , covid-19.

Nursing 62

Nursing Medicare 62

Aging in Place Technology Watch

MAY 31, 2020

Challenges facing nursing homes serving primarily long-stay residents covered by Medicaid; workforce challenges , which are unlikely to dissipate; nursing home regulations; and the growing popularity of Medicare Advantage." Go back to 2019, for just a moment. What were the top issues early in the year?

Health Technology 78

Health Technology Nursing Medicare Telehealth 78

ACA Times

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

In Massachusetts, the state is taking action to address a budget shortfall for the Commonwealth’s Medicaid (MassHealth) and Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP). The post Masshealth Changes Come With a Hefty Price Tag For Employers [UPDATE] first appeared on The ACA Times. The program provides healthcare to 1.9

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MAY 26, 2022

The news articles pile up – assisted living and nursing home staffing shortages ; stranding older adults without home health care ; keeping patients in hospitals longer because of lack of care; nursing home staffing crisis ; Medicaid paying family members to provide care , low wages and low unemployment worsen care situation , and on and on.

Telehealth 75

Telehealth Nursing Medicare Patient Experience 75

ACA Times

AUGUST 31, 2017

The bill is expected to raise $200 million to increase funding for MassHealth, the state’s initiative to provide healthcare to lower income families and individuals (both under Medicaid ), children (under CHIP ) and the disabled. The post MassHealth Changes Come With A Hefty Price Tag For Employers first appeared on The ACA Times.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Many want to target drug costs and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has mandated hospitals to post a list of their standard charges by diagnostic-related group, in an effort for consumers to have transparent cost options. And providers need to collect every penny owed them and combat revenue leakage.

Healthcare IT 82

Healthcare IT EHR Meaningful Use Interoperability 82

Health Populi

MAY 20, 2022

But for people in the 50s and older, facing retirement sooner rather than later, the sticker-shock reality of a $315,000 price tag for health care costs will be a stress-inducing moment that could be long-lived.

Medicare 170

Medicare Mental health Nursing 170

American Well

JUNE 28, 2015

For its part, the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services (CMS) is taking a step forward in supporting the wider use of telemedicine. Quantifying the Value of Pediatric Telemedicine in Rural Communities. “We’ve been doing telemedicine consultation for some time at the bedside to help seriously ill children,” Dr.

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Telemedicine Telehealth Primary Care Medicare 48

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 12, 2020

The good news for telehealth is that the reimbursement environment has improved, with the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services bringing telehealth and eVisits on par with in-person visits for the duration of the pandemic, along with a relaxing of rules for virtual consults across state lines.

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Telehealth Digital Health Interoperability Public Health 212

Aging in Place Technology Watch

MAY 20, 2020

So up to 70% of nursing home residents are women, either widowed, single, or having spent down assets with the assistance of attorneys to qualify for Medicaid, the primary payer for nursing homes. category tags: covid-19 , Skilled Nursing Facilities (SNF). Half of these women have no close relatives.

Nursing 136

Nursing 136

Aging in Place Technology Watch

MAY 20, 2020

So up to 70% of nursing home residents are women, either widowed, single, or otherwise having spent down assets with the assistance of attorneys to qualify for Medicaid, the primary payer for nursing homes. category tags: covid-19 , Skilled Nursing Facilities (SNF). Half of these women have no close relatives.

Nursing 111

Nursing 111

Lloyd Price

JULY 30, 2018

In January, a single therapy to treat a rare form of blindness received a price tag of $850,000. In his view, venture capital often lean towards the therapeutics companies that fit into the low social complexity/high medical complexity quadrant, such as costly novel drugs for cancer or diabetes. Who's left out?

Pharmaceuticals 84

Pharmaceuticals Primary Care 84

Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 16, 2023

The Inpatient Quality Reporting (IQR) program, used by Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to rate hospitals, now contain two measures of SDoH. Another report from CODE calls for better tagging of data with SDoH. Like many SDoH tools, the analysis identifies vulnerable patients and does risk stratification.

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Public Health HIE Medicare Health IT 109

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

” said the former HHS Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Administrator Seema Verma in June 2020. Region Tag: Global Edition. The current and previous administrations have expressed support for telehealth permanence. “I think the genie's out of the bottle on this one.”

Public Health 117

Public Health Telehealth Connected Health Medicare 117

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

” said the former HHS Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Administrator Seema Verma in June 2020. Region Tag: Global Edition. The current and previous administrations have expressed support for telehealth permanence. “I think the genie's out of the bottle on this one.”

Public Health 107

Public Health Telehealth Connected Health Medicare 107

GlobalMed

OCTOBER 7, 2019

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) reports that of $3.5 It’s time for greater transparency in our dialogues, from hospitals providing clear treatment price tags to patients discussing financial challenges with their doctors. trillion in U.S. healthcare spending in 2017, Americans paid $365.5 billion out of pocket.

Medical Billing 40

Medical Billing Telemedicine Mental health Medicare 40

Society for Participatory Medicine

JUNE 10, 2018

A ICD-10 lookup engine from CMS (Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services). Tagging features for encounters (categorizes like visits). The capacity to use any device to input and view a record, even from a smartphone. Medication lookup engine from RXNorm. e-Prescribing and orders done through blockchain digital notarization process.

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ePatients Health Data EHR HIE 58

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 6, 2020

Any abnormal responses or vital stats are tagged and reported to: a healthcare organization partnering with the employer, a clinician on the employer’s staff, or a human resources professional, for a referral to a COVID-19 testing site to confirm an infection and prevent spreading the virus in the workplace.

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Connected Health Telehealth Pharmaceuticals EHR 181