American Well
JULY 30, 2017
The CONNECT for Health Act would improve coverage of telehealth and remote patient monitoring as basic benefits in Medicare Advantage. Telehealth has the potential to help rural patients remotely access specialized healthcare — but convincing payers like Medicare to cover these services has proved challenging.
American Well
JULY 30, 2017
The CONNECT for Health Act would improve coverage of telehealth and remote patient monitoring as basic benefits in Medicare Advantage. Telehealth has the potential to help rural patients remotely access specialized healthcare — but convincing payers like Medicare to cover these services has proved challenging.
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Enzyme Health
APRIL 30, 2019
The lawsuit highlights a national battle between ocular telehealth companies and the 11 states where connected care eye exams are banned. FAIR Health, owner of the nation’s largest collection of private healthcare claims data, found that telehealth claims grew 53% YOY from 2016 to 2017 outpacing all other sites of care.
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
AUGUST 19, 2020
Staff members were unsure if Medicare and Medicaid would honor the prospective payment-system rate. In 2017, AccessHealth set goals that were modeled after the Department of Health and Human Service’s Healthy People 2020 Program. Decisions were not made yet on the level of payment.
GlobalMed
DECEMBER 16, 2019
Tribal lands sometimes have the lowest rates of broadband adoption; many Indian Health Services facilities lack the bandwidth to offer virtual care. FCC initiatives such as Connected Care NPRM and the Rural Digital Opportunity Fund strive to bring telehealth services to patients in underserved, rural and tribal areas.
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
AUGUST 30, 2021
In 2017, the health system – which has 100 continuing care locations, including home care, hospice, PACE programs and senior living facilities – was in a bind, facing double-digit hospital readmissions of 16% across its high-risk Medicare population. Trinity Health has 94 hospitals across 24 states.
care innovations
SEPTEMBER 26, 2018
In the recent past, such initiatives have included: The expansion of reimbursement for remote care services by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). And in a 2017 news conference announcing the expansion of telehealth services within the VA , the president himself expressed his approval.
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