care innovations

JANUARY 2, 2019

With 2019 now upon us, please join us in taking a look back at the most momentous remote care stories from 2018, as reported here at the Care Innovations blog. January: Unbundled CMS Code Increases Remote Care Reimbursement. January: Unbundled CMS Code Increases Remote Care Reimbursement.

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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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JUNE 12, 2019

In fact, a 2017 survey found that two-thirds of healthcare consumers would prefer seeing a doctor via virtual visits. The reality of having virtual services available from specialities like psychiatry, dermatology, primary care, plastic surgery would mean more accessible healthcare for all, regardless of income. Telehealth in 2019.

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GlobalMed

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

hit $327 billion in 2017, with reduced productivity costing another $90 billion. Their letter stated, “A Medicare beneficiary’s access to the life-improving program should not, and cannot, be determined solely by the zip code in which he or she lives.”. Diabetes imposes a staggering economic burden on our healthcare system.

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care innovations

JANUARY 23, 2019

There are a number of good reasons why experts are predicting that 2019 will be a “tipping point” for telehealth — in other words, the year to see virtual and remote care services gain even more widespread acceptance in health plan networks, practices and facilities throughout the United States.

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care innovations

JULY 25, 2018

2017 and 2018 have been eventful years for advocates of digitally delivered healthcare, as government officials have moved more quickly and decisively than ever before to expand reimbursement for telehealth services (which in turn expands the availability of these services). Senators: Medicare Reimbursement Restrictions Are ‘Outdated’.

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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). 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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