Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 4, 2020

The ever-present uncertainties of healthcare reimbursement somewhat dampen the gung-ho rhetoric on telehealth. In a swift and welcome response to COVID-19, the CMS announced rules to improve telehealth reimbursements across the board. Following the money. Featured Decision Content:

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 17, 2023

The dream of reimbursement for remote care became a reality during the pandemic. There are wearables that can predict the onset of stroke , track at home blood pressure , as well as fit into Air Tags or Smart Tags that can pinpoint the location of a purse, phone (or suitcase) left behind or a person who is lost.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 24, 2020

Expect more announcements moving forward, but matching reimbursement for telehealth with in-person visits was a big deal. This is an acknowledgement of the emerging reimbursement of some home care services by Medicare Advantage. category tags: Telehealth-mHealth-Voice Health. If not now, when?

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

AUGUST 24, 2023

You’ve seen the rehab functions performed by many nursing homes reimbursed by Medicare and Medicaid. category tags: Skilled Nursing Facilities (SNF) , aging in place , seniors and aging policy There is another side to the nursing home story – and maybe you have seen it. Seniors and families need them?

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 19, 2020

Telehealth visits will be reimbursed the same amount as an in-person visit.” Will this reimbursement extend past the current crisis? category tags: mHealth-Telehealth-Voice Health , Boomer-Senior Tech Business , healthcare. So telehealth services will broadly expand during this coronavirus calamity. The key phrase in this?

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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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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 25, 2023

The traditional PERS pendant industry’s growth is slowing and vendors are stepping into the reimbursed Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) market. Remote patient monitoring (RPM) is also on a growth trajectory , and will likely grow as a service offered by home care agencies , assuming reimbursement continues. Learning and contribution.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JUNE 1, 2022

Oh, and did we mention that that there is a CPT code for RPM enables Medicare reimbursement? an individual’s chronic diseases progresses, add appropriate (nurse-monitored) RPM technology that qualifies for reimbursement – including for home care agencies , which desperately need revenue sources that are less labor, more tech-dependent.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

DECEMBER 13, 2022

While health care tech is necessary as the pandemic proved, and reimbursement certainly keeps the company going, it is not sufficient. category tags: IoT and home monitoring , vehicle/transportation technology-services. Along with CareAngel and Papa , the company now focuses, no surprise, on healthcare. Check it out !].

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 6, 2021

The technology existed for many years, but organizations were slow to adopt this technology for a variety of reasons, including restrictions in reimbursement and lack of operational workflows. Here's hoping that our actions will be dictated by "assurance" rather than desperation.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 22, 2022

The hospital at home has seen a boost in popularity, but the models have been hampered by physician uncertainty and piecemeal reimbursement arrangements. Region Tag: Global Edition. Regardless, healthcare CIOs need to be prepared for the upcoming changes in the healthcare landscape.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 12, 2022

The dream of reimbursement for remote care is a reality. category tags: home health care , smart home , IoT and home monitoring , CES 2022 , hearables/hearing technology , AgeTech. Here are just four of the trends identified in the 2022 Market Overview, Technology for Aging. . In-home healthcare services will persist and expand.

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BHM Healthcare Solutions

DECEMBER 13, 2022

The core of a P2P call basically focuses on matching medical necessity criteria with reimbursement criteria. The concerns about reimbursements and the tedious phone tag process make these conversations uncomfortable and time-consuming, contributing to their negative reputation. Who Initiates a Peer-to-Peer Review?

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 29, 2023

The following is a guest article by Isaac Smith, Billing, Coding, and Reimbursement Specialist at Medcare MSO ASCs are types of medical facilities that are subject to stringent regulations. New CMS and AMA guidelines, coding changes, and reimbursement methods have been implemented. HIPAA, CMS, and state agencies regulate ASCs.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 10, 2022

Papa’s “Family on Demand” expanded services to enterprises and insurance reimbursement -- Papa Pals help seniors with tasks that might fall to family members or home care workers -- providing new sources for ‘care in the home’ or home care.Now home care must double down on tech-enabled reinvention. That is a sign. More when there is more.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 23, 2020

In 2020, telehealth (and its other prefixes or monikers) is an accepted service with reimbursement codes. category tags: mHealth-Digital Health-Telehealth-Voice Health , IoT and home monitoring , Technology - AARP. This is laudable. Telehealth was a pioneering concept in 2008. Yet adoption is slow – reasons are many. Just saying.

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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?

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Reimbursement of technology was a key policy change in 2020 that fueled adoption and investment in telehealth. As the pandemic proceeded, organizations experimented with (now-reimbursed) telehealth across multiple types of consultation, ranging from dermatology , plastic surgery , internal medicine appointments and beyond.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

APRIL 21, 2021

Question: In the future, will doctors be willing to access and utilize that information – and will they be appropriately reimbursed to do so? category tags: wearables, smart watch , Technology - AARP. Will consumers tolerate the default tracking of their behaviors as a trade-off for health, fitness, and financial benefits?

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Reimbursement of technology was a key policy change in 2020 that fueled adoption and investment in telehealth. category tags: Voice First/AI/Voice Assistants , Telehealth-RPM-Voice Health , tech-enabled home care. The pandemic has likely transformed the senior-focused ecosystem. Home Care Assistance received $100 million in 2016.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 14, 2021

It's clear the future of reimbursement will at minimum include a heaping portion of providers being paid for value as opposed to volume. While Congress and CMS have considered permanently expanding access to telehealth and virtual care, there is a big price tag attached. Value-based care continues to take root in healthcare.

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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. category tags: Boomer-Senior Tech Business , senior living , Home Care , Skilled Nursing Facilities (SNF).

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 2, 2022

Prescribed RPM can be reimbursed via CMS provided billable codes. One result was the addition of new reimbursement codes for RPM, enabling reimbursement beyond just the clinical staff to include oversight of provided information -- vital signs, such as heart rate, blood pressure, blood glucose, weight, and other physiological statistics.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 4, 2021

hospital margins will improve from Q2 with new revenue innovation and reimbursement transformation. Permanent reimbursement relaxation will be critical to make telehealth a mainstream delivery mechanism. In the US, as federal aid waned, for-profit hospital margins have been extremely strained in 2020.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

DECEMBER 30, 2020

With the introduction of Over-the-Counter Hearing aid sales ( and recommended guidelines ), coupled with the beginnings of insurance reimbursement, those with mild-to-moderate hearing loss are likely to benefit from many of these changes. category tags: hearables/hearing technology , AI , Voice First/AI/Voice Assistants , Mobile PERS.

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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. category tags: digital health , Telehealth-RPM-Voice Health , Family caregivers.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

DECEMBER 5, 2022

And for sure, the pandemic institutionalized the role of in-home telehealth, with CMS reimbursement presumed to become permanent , or at least regularly renewed. category tags: IoT and home monitoring , SNF , seniors and aging policy , AI and machine learning. Here are five examples of sensor-enabled smart clothing.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

AUGUST 27, 2020

Consider reimbursement for telehealth technologies , a wave of free engagement software, distribution of tablets to senior centers and Echo Dots to senior living , to remote care voice tech for high needs seniors and government-funded competition to combat social isolation.

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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. category tags: Boomer-Senior Tech Business , senior living , Home Care , Skilled Nursing Facilities (SNF).

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JULY 28, 2020

For example, state ombudsman programs will get tech to enable remote monitoring of long-term care facilities, programs were launched to foster digital health innovations for vulnerable populations, reimbursement for telehealth services delivered to people at home, the CART program for collaboration between the VA and NIA for aging in place.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JUNE 17, 2020

In March, the government announced expansion of telehealth access , noting that it would raise the reimbursement rate for telehealth visits during the Covid-19 pandemic to match the doctor’s rate for in person visits, as Seema Verma, the head of CMS noted: ‘the genie was let out of the bottle’ and won’t likely be put back in.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

APRIL 3, 2019

And in 2018, telehealth reimbursement programs accelerated , with Medicare Advantage reimbursement expected in 2020. category tags: Boomer-Senior Tech Business , Aging technology. Regulation of home design to sustain independence? Regulation of cognitive training programs? Who is thinking over one of these recommendations?

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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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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

"Essentially overnight, as part of efforts to reduce the transmission of COVID-19, two of the major previous barriers to telehealth use – poor financial reimbursement and low provider willingness – were eliminated, thus massively speeding up adoption," wrote the researchers.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Payors will reimburse to keep people well. But as with all business services, that is likely to change over the next few years, as conversational AI and chatbots become incorporated into the user experience and extend beyond seniors and their caregivers to include their adult children and grandchildren.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

APRIL 20, 2020

Following the reimbursement changes after in-person visits disappeared and numbers of visits exploded , firms with telehealth tech are finding a one-year-pipeline compressed into one month. category tags: robotics , Telehealth-mHealth-Voice Health , social isolation , covid-19. And that is likely an understatement.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 3, 2022

Big tech revealed growing interest in older adults and investors saw the potential in firms like Papa, which provides (reimbursed) varied assistance to older adults. Imagine “ Family on Demand ” as a form of insurance-reimbursed services. category tags: Home Care , smart home , wearables, smart watch , Mobile PERS.

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