ACA Times
APRIL 7, 2015
Low-income Americans will have greater access to mental health and substance abuse treatments under a new rule proposed by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). That law says benefits for mental health and substance abuse disorders must be no more restrictive than those for medical and surgical services.
Mend
JANUARY 18, 2021
Organizations like the American Telemedicine Association, Alliance for Connected Care and Connected Health Initiative, healthcare providers and dozens of lawmakers had lobbied to make at least some of those emergency provisions permanent. Those provisions were met with approval, and also some disappointment.
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Health Populi
JUNE 13, 2018
. “Employer health spending has grown from 6 percent of total wages in 1988 to more than 12 percent in 2018,” driven by healthcare prices growing faster than the general economy, and the adoption of new technologies, procedures, and increasingly expensive new prescription drugs, PwC observes. economy by 2026.
Health Populi
DECEMBER 22, 2022
health citizens face physical, financial, and mental health challenges of a syndemic, inflation, and stress – all of which will shape peoples’ demand side for health care and digital technology, and a supply side of providers challenged by tech-enabled organizations with design and data chops. Which virus is it?”
American Well
NOVEMBER 3, 2015
The federal government has pegged the cost of hospital readmissions for Medicare patients at $26 billion annually, with $17 billion accounting for readmissions that result in patients not receiving the right care. Readmission Reduction. In 2011, hospitals spent $41.3 billion to treat patients readmitted within 30 days of discharge.
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
MARCH 18, 2022
What has been another digital health investment trend during the COVID-19 pandemic, and why is it significant? Mental health is an area where investment accelerated during the COVID-19 pandemic, even beyond telehealth visits with therapists and other mental health professionals. billion that year to $5.1
American Well
NOVEMBER 3, 2015
The federal government has pegged the cost of hospital readmissions for Medicare patients at $26 billion annually, with $17 billion accounting for readmissions that result in patients not receiving the right care. Readmission Reduction. In 2011, hospitals spent $41.3 billion to treat patients readmitted within 30 days of discharge.
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