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What’s Behind the Medicare Slowdown?

Digital Health Wire

Since Medicare coverage first took effect almost six decades ago, the program’s runaway spending has played a leading role in the story of the federal budget. An excellent piece in The New York Times highlighted how Medicare’s unsustainable climb reached a turning point in 2011, and for reasons that aren’t exactly clear.

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Cigna and Humana Eye Blockbuster Merger

Digital Health Wire

The glaring white space in that portfolio happens to be one of the biggest growth engines for insurers, the Medicare segment. While Cigna’s been trying to build momentum in Medicare Advantage since picking up HealthSpring in 2011, just this month it announced that it’s “ evaluating options ” to offload its underperforming MA unit.

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How Will the “New” Health Economy Fare in a Macro-Economic Downturn?

Health Populi

Contrast those statistics with the fact that fewer than 2% of Americans are treated at any given health system. Scale matters in building services, competitive pricing, and digital health-tech infrastructures. Walmart) to do so, as well. .” ” Dr. Cosgrove based that sobering forecast due to changes in the U.S.

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The Burgeoning Role Of Venture Capital In Health Care

Henry Kotula

While venture capital -backed startups in digital health offer opportunities to affect the cost and quality of care, often by challenging prevailing modes of care delivery, they pose potential risks to patient care and raise important questions for policy makers. billion has been invested in digital health this decade (see Exhibit 1).

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Why the RPM Codes for 2019 are Different, and – Most Importantly – SPOT ON!

care innovations

Ultimately, when new procedures or services are made available for reimbursement from the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), those procedures are assigned a Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) code, which is used when submitting the claim for payment. About Marcus Grindstaff Chief Operations Officer, Care Innovations.

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The Two Canoes: Fee-for-Service Reimbursement for Remote Patient Monitoring

care innovations

Thank you to the Alliance for Connected Care, The Center for Connected Health Policy, Krista Drobac, Nathaniel Lacktman, David Ryan, the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Service and many others for your persistence in driving change and moving American healthcare forward. Asia and Europe.

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Physician venture investor talks telehealth, digital therapeutics, Medicaid tech

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

GSR Ventures, a $3 billion assets under management venture firm investing in early-stage digital health companies, is an unusual venture firm: The partners all are former practicing physicians and former successful healthcare technology entrepreneurs themselves.