Aging in Place Technology Watch

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Congress ordered the FDA to approve this in 2017. And basic Medicare still does not cover, although Medicare Advantage plans (like United Healthcare , for example) in some locations do. This could be an enabler for differentiating behaviors among users in senior housing, hospitals and nursing homes.

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South Central Telehealth Resource Center

MARCH 6, 2018

Medicare and Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) Reimbursement. Effective January 1, 2018, Medicare began reimbursing providers for RPM services billed under CPT code 99091. The Medicare website explains that the change was made to reduce the administrative burden for practitioners. Go to the Medicare Telehealth Services section.

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care innovations

DECEMBER 12, 2018

Changes to policy regarding telehealth and remote patient management (RPM) — and, specifically, changes affecting the reimbursement for these services offered by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) — are having an effect on the usage of digital delivery on the larger healthcare industry.

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CMS.gov

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

2018 Medicare Fee-For-Service improper payment rate is lowest since 2010. Administrator, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. 2018 Medicare Fee-For-Service improper payment rate is lowest since 2010 Significant progress in saving $4.59B in estimated improper payments for the Medicare Fee-For-Service program.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 3, 2021

President, Emirates Nursing Association. Al Mahri is also group chief nursing officer at Abu Dhabi Health Services Company, or "SEHA," where she was the first senior nursing leader to identify the importance of the nursing informatics specialty. They are: Aysha Al Mahri. Abu Dhabi, UAE. Isaiah Nathaniel.

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Iris Telehealth

JULY 3, 2023

It’s also important to get buy-in from nurses and staff. It’s one of the direct outcomes of the Medicaid 1115 waivers , it’s a primary outcome for certified community behavioral health centers (CCBHC) , and it’s going to be something that insurance payers, Medicare, and Medicaid will require.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Consider that this was first proposed in 2017! And that the costs (estimated at $754 million in 2015) were mostly paid by Medicare and Medicaid (the latter likely in nursing homes.) The US Food and Drug Administration approved the over-the-counter sale of hearing aids for those with mild-to-moderate hearing loss. Read more. .

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Health Populi

JUNE 13, 2018

Even with moderating medical trend growth, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) expect that healthcare spending will account for 20% of the U.S. As with public sector healthcare spending (“entitlements” in the form of Medicare and Medicaid), healthcare spending crowds out U.S. economy by 2026.

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Mend

JANUARY 10, 2024

Ultimately, the decision to use the GT modifier should be made by taking into consideration the guidelines and regulations set forth by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and other relevant authorities. HCPCS codes are used by Medicare and other payers to identify and reimburse for these various services.

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Iris Telehealth

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

It’s also important to get buy-in from nurses and staff. It’s one of the direct outcomes of the Medicaid 1115 waivers , it’s a primary outcome for certified community behavioral health centers (CCBHC) , and it’s going to be something that insurance payers, Medicare, and Medicaid will require. The future of integrated care.

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Continue Education Journal

JUNE 12, 2019

Nurses, physicians, counselors or dentists can all provide telehealth services. In fact, a 2017 survey found that two-thirds of healthcare consumers would prefer seeing a doctor via virtual visits. Telehealth in 2019. The switch to telehealth services will also help stabilize the increasing healthcare costs.

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South Central Telehealth Resource Center

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

Carry Over from 2017. Reimbursement will be based on the applicable Medicare guidelines and coding for the different service providers. Title: Advanced Practice Registered NurseAgency: Board of Nursing. Amends rules regarding advanced practice registered nurse. 1/25/18: To Senate Committee on Commerce and Labor.

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South Central Telehealth Resource Center

MARCH 5, 2018

Carry Over from 2017. Title: Advanced Practice Registered Nurse. Agency: Board of Nursing. Amends rules regarding advanced practice registered nurse. Reimbursement will be based on the applicable Medicare guidelines and coding for the different service providers. 4/5/17: Taken off notice of cal. 12/19/17: Adopted.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 25, 2022

Fetter retired as chairman and CEO of Tenet in late 2017. The specialty care programs are delivered remotely by Biofourmis’ trained health navigators, who are frontline care coordinators, as well as a multidisciplinary team of licensed clinicians, including physicians, nurses and advanced practice providers.

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Enzyme Health

JUNE 12, 2019

But with only 40% of elementary schools staffed by a full-time school nurse, providing rapid treatment or diagnosis can be near impossible. Visits are facilitated by school nurses and mobile telemedicine techs who come on-site and sometimes are conducted with the child’s own pediatrician. million dollars in travel costs.

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GlobalMed

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Senior leadership at a research think tank or a chain of skilled nursing facilities may not understand virtual care’s value. Medicare, Medicaid and commercial payers can pay the same service differently. Without top-down commitment to new care delivery models, telemedicine adoption won’t thrive where it’s needed most.

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CMS.gov

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

Thu, 11/30/2017 - 15:28. Nursing facilities. Medicare and other payers are rapidly moving toward a healthcare system that rewards high quality care while spending more wisely. CMS releases its Measures Under Consideration List for 2018 pre-rulemaking. keya.joy-bush@…. Kate Goodrich, M.D., Initiatives. Leadership. Physicians.

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HIStalk Weekender

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

Verity Health (CA) files for Chapter 11 in an effort to survive the health IT missteps of Patrick Soon-Shiong, MD who acquired the health system in July 2017. Reminds me of medical care in a third world hospital where family provides food, bedding and nursing. Best Reader Comments. Watercooler Talk Tidbits. Get Involved.

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Lloyd Price

OCTOBER 16, 2018

It may be too early to start imagining a world where health care is truly owned by Big Tech — you order prescription drugs with your Amazon Prime account, see a nurse at the Apple Clinic, get your benefits statements from Google, and call an Uber instead of an ambulance when you need to go to the hospital. But something is happening here.

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GlobalMed

JULY 8, 2019

The Pew Research Center reports that in 2017, 67 percent of people with incomes of $30K or less had a smartphone, indicating that most Medicaid patients have a way to complete a telemedicine visit. Schedule them for telemedicine visits while you reserve your exam rooms for commercial and Medicare patients.

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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. THE PROBLEM.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 16, 2020

The pandemic generated uneven experiences for millions of Americans as physicians, therapists, nurse practitioners, hospitals and other caregivers – all coming to telehealth with varying levels of experience themselves – tried suddenly to meet patients where they were, said PwC researchers.

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HIStalk Weekender

APRIL 26, 2019

HHS announces CMS Primary Cares, two value-based care payment models launching in 2020 that it says will cover at least 25% of Medicare beneficiaries and providers. A former pediatric resident who was fired by UK Hospital (KY) in 2017 for possessing child pornography on his work computer is charged with that crime. Get Involved.

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Henry Kotula

JANUARY 24, 2018

Doctors and nurses leave and buildings are shuttered, maybe demolished. In 2015, the most recent year of data, these service reductions accounted for nearly half of the hospital closures recorded around the country, according to the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission. (By When most hospitals close, it’s plain to see.

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Henry Kotula

JULY 17, 2020

the state is trying to ensure that nursing homes and rehabilitation facilities aren’t quickly overwhelmed by patients still suffering from the disease. One of those facilities is Miami Medical Center, which was shuttered in October 2017 but now transformed to care for 150 such patients. Key Role for Testing.

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Lloyd Price

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

And as part of its efforts to target the aging infirm, the company began offering Prime discounts to Medicare recipients. Then there’s the long-rumored possibility of Haven opening pharmacies at stores in the Whole Foods chain, which Amazon bought in 2017. JPMorgan Chase has also invested in on-site healthcare.

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Henry Kotula

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

This has been especially true in ACA exchange plans and Medicare Advantage (MA). This will lead to more bundled payments that trigger at diagnosis rather than only at inpatient admission, which is already happening in Medicare, he said.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 22, 2023

This total has doubled since 2017. Qualtrics and Oculi Data are partnering to enable comparisons and analyses of nursing quality metrics. Medicare Advantage plan eternalHealth chose 9amHealth for at-home, virtual cardiac care. Inpatient telehealth from Vitalchat is now available on Samsung healthcare displays.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Cost concerns are playing into peoples’ perspectives on health care reform proposals, with a majority of survey respondents saying they’d be more likely to vote for a candidate that would support expanding private health insurance reforms versus scrapping commercial insurance for a Medicare for All proposal. health care system model.

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Henry Kotula

JULY 15, 2018

In 2017, Adventist’s corporate campus received the Orlando Business Journal ‘s Corporate Philanthropy Award. Advocate Health Care, one of Chicagoland’s largest employers, has more than 35,000 associates, including 11,000 nurses and nearly 6,300 affiliated physicians. Advocate Health Care (Downers Grove, Ill.).

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HIStalk Weekender

AUGUST 10, 2018

CMS releases a draft rule that would overhaul the Medicare Share Savings Program. Theresa Brown, RN, PhD notes that doctors generally ignore those feelings as documented in the EHR’s nurse notes. Now in a sense, that’s what a doctor or nurse does when they go in. It’s something that’s taught at nursing school.

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HIStalk Weekender

JULY 13, 2018

A new KLAS report covering non-US EHR activity finds that Epic doubled its relatively small market share in 2017, InterSystems continued its rapid growth, and Cerner experienced moderate activity. Contribute regularly as a provider CIO, IT director, or informatics nurse (anonymous or not). Best Reader Comments. Get Involved.

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Henry Kotula

MARCH 29, 2023

Not surprisingly, congressional lobbying was intense during the last two weeks of 2022 in a partially successful effort to ameliorate spending cuts for Medicare payments for physicians and hospitals. To avoid a nurse labor strike, KP gave 21,000 nurses and nurse practitioners a 22.5% raise over four years.

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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). Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) that remove restrictions preventing doctors, nurses and other clinicians from treating patients in other states.

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HIStalk Weekender

MAY 25, 2018

A KLAS report on hospital EHR market share finds that most new sales in 2017 were to hospitals of under 200 beds, Epic led by far in overall net hospital count change, and CPSI and Allscripts lost more than 30 net hospitals each last year. Medicare would have paid the hospital only $20,000. Weekly News Recap. Get Involved.

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Henry Kotula

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

A growing volume of outpatient care will be provided in ambulatory surgery centers, primary care clinics, retail clinics, urgent care centers, nurse managed health centers, imaging facilities, emergency departments, retail clinics, and patients’ homes.

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Primary Care Telehealth Patient Experience HIPAA 41

Henry Kotula

JANUARY 21, 2019

At Riverside Health System, a rural health network in Newport News, Virginia, a long-term telebehavioral health initiative has improved coordinated care among psychiatrists and clinical social workers, as well as replaced a chunk of services offered at the system’s nursing homes. Medicare Advantage still lucrative, popular.

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