Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Among the allegations are that Wolfe and her conspirators submitted well over $400 million in illegal durable medical equipment claims to Medicare and the Civilian Health and Medical Program of the Department of Veterans, relying on the guise of "telemedicine" to explain the unusually high volume of claims. Twitter: @kjercich.

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JULY 22, 2022

Meanwhile, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services' Center for Program Integrity also announced that it has taken administrative actions against more than 50 healthcare providers alleged to be involved in similar schemes. healthcare system at the expense of patients." Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS publication.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 6, 2023

Welcome to our Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup. Each week, we’ll be providing a look back at the articles we posted and why they’re important to the healthcare IT community. Technology can play a valuable role in making healthcare more convenient, but on if it’s affordable and accessible.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 13, 2022

"From September 2017 through December 2019, Luke and Laughlin conspired together and with others to unlawfully enrich themselves by submitting and causing to be submitted false and fraudulent claims to federal healthcare benefit programs," the officials alleged. Kat Jercich is senior editor of Healthcare IT News.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released Friday found a 154% increase in telehealth visits during the last week of March 2020, compared with the same time period in 2019. " This was 50% higher than the approximately 1 million encounters during the same period in 2019. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Value-based care continues to take root in healthcare. This is why, as the new year approaches, Healthcare IT News has sat down with an expert in value-based care to get his views on what 2022 will hold for the payment system. Both of these were discussed but not ultimately finalized in the 2022 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 6, 2023

Wellvana serves over one hundred thousand Medicare and commercial lives through multiple payors, Medicare Advantage and as manager of three (3) national contracts for the 2023 ACO REACH (Realizing Equity, Access, and Community Health) model through the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 14, 2021

” Finalized in 2019, the CMS (Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services) Price Transparency Final […]. We’re excited to share the topic and questions for this week’s #HITsm chat happening Friday, 7/16 at Noon ET (9 AM PT).

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 29, 2020

Until regulatory changes, such as those enacted by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, had made telehealth provision more financially feasible, a doctor "had every economic incentive to require the patient to come to the office in person," he explained. " Kat Jercich is senior editor of Healthcare IT News.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 19, 2020

No objections were made by Allscripts during the requisite 6 month period prior to the issue of our trademark," said CarePortMD CEO Dr. Ashok Subramanian in a statement to Healthcare IT News. According to the filing, Allscripts became aware of CarePortMD – and its use of the name – in November 2019. WHY IT MATTERS.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 26, 2020

Throughout 2018 and 2019, Northwell Health piloted small-scale programs in partnership with the Gary and Mary West Health Institute Collaboration to bring medical services virtually to the homes of their patients. " Kat Jercich is senior editor of Healthcare IT News. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Healthtech is a burgeoning part of the healthcare industry and has rapidly risen in value. digital health, medical device, and biotech companies) to sell more effectively and efficiently to healthcare providers (eg. physicians, physician groups, hospitals, health systems, etc).

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 5, 2023

The following is a guest article by Erin Rutzler, Vice President of Fraud, Waste, and Abuse at Cotiviti In Delaware, more than 250 Medicare patients underwent unnecessary genetic testing based on telehealth consultations that often lasted less than two minutes— costing Medicare thousands of dollars per patient.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 21, 2023

We’re watching three trends that, if taken seriously, will surely help health plans capture their share of that $1 trillion healthcare improvement opportunity. Introduced to Congress on April 3 the “Strengthening Medicare for Patients and Providers Act,” is intended to help Medicare payments keep pace with economic challenges like inflation.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 19, 2020

told Healthcare IT News that the Enhancing Preparedness Through Telehealth Act stemmed from the desire to "understand what the administration is doing right now, and what they can do without needing additional legislative authority. " Kat Jercich is senior editor of Healthcare IT News. Tina Smith, D-Minn., Twitter: @kjercich.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 5, 2024

About PursueCare PursueCare launched its telehealth services in 2019 aiming to change how people access addiction recovery and mental health services by removing the obstacles historically associated with treatment. Patients can also seek treatment without a referral by downloading the app from Google Play or the Apple Store.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

He said that in January 2019 – more than a year before the COVID-19 pandemic necessitated, in short order, an even bigger, more sustained and more widespread scaling up of virtual care services than could ever have been imagined two years ago. Healthcare IT News is a publication of HIMSS Media. Twitter: @MikeMiliardHITN.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

In addition, One Medical’s Iora Health expands the healthcare offering to include a growing market of Medicare patients 65 and over. Amazon, the second largest private employer in the US, launched Amazon Care in 2019 as a health care offering for its employees. Overview of Amazon Care.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

For example telehealth utilization increased 63x (in Medicare alone!) between the beginning of 2019 and the end of 2020. Additionally, an Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation report found that Medicare visits conducted through telehealth skyrocketed from approximately 840,000 in 2019 to 52.7

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 18, 2022

"In 2019, UVA Health created a multi-stakeholder strategic plan for telemedicine." Healthcare IT News published a special report highlighting many of these vendors with detailed descriptions of their products. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication. MARKETPLACE. Click here to read the special report.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

In the past, many of these innovations were limited in coverage and use to Medicare seniors. " Healthcare IT News sat down with Rush for a discussion of these home health issues and technologies. saw an 11 percent increase in patients diagnosed with inoperable or metastatic cancer compared with the same period in 2019.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 19, 2022

It is Brooklyn's tertiary care hub serving diverse communities with large Medicaid, Medicare and uninsured populations. "By late 2019, we created a definition of digital health to differentiate our responsibilities from those of our colleagues in IT and marketing, with whom we collaborate to align objectives, assets and resources.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 12, 2023

A 2019 survey by the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation’s Office of Health Policy found that the highest rates of telehealth visits happened among people with Medicaid (29.3%) and Medicare (27.4%), Black individuals (26.8%), and those earning less than $25,000 (26.7%). Enterprise Taxonomy:

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Founded in 2017, PurpleLab has a strong pedigree in proprietary methodologies for data organization, cleansing, management, and governance to solve key challenges across the healthcare industry. PurpleLab is a health tech company with a mission to spur value-driven innovation across the healthcare continuum. About PurpleLab.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

You say payers and patients will more greatly embrace telepsychiatry as a form of healthcare delivery. What does this mean for mental healthcare this year? When telepsychiatry was first in higher demand due to COVID, it is estimated in February 2019, 4% of survey respondents indicated using telehealth services.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 22, 2021

TRU Community Care, based in Lafayette, Colorado, had a vision for incorporating a telehealth/remote patient monitoring program: to meet the needs of patients in the new Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services "Seriously Ill Population" (SIP) program. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication. THE PROBLEM.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 27, 2022

Raj Ratwani, PhD, vice president of scientific affairs for the MedStar Health Research Institute, and director of the MedStar Health National Center for Human Factors in Healthcare. Healthcare IT News interviewed Booker and Ratwani to learn more about their work and how it can inform leaders following and advancing the future of telehealth.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 19, 2020

Staff members were unsure if Medicare and Medicaid would honor the prospective payment-system rate. NextGen and Zoom for Healthcare both were proposed as telemedicine vendors. Healthcare IT News recently compiled a comprehensive list of these vendors with detailed descriptions. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 30, 2023

Welcome to the weekly edition of Healthcare IT Today Bonus Features. Because there’s so much happening out there in healthcare IT we aren’t able to cover in our full articles, we still want to make sure you’re informed of all the latest news, announcements, and stories happening to help you better do your job.

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JANUARY 4, 2023

A 2021 report by the Department of Health and Human Services estimates that the number of medical visits via telehealth grew from 840,000 in 2019 to 52.7 Data, especially in an increasingly personalized healthcare system, is inevitably siloed. million in 2020.

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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. September: 2019 CMS Fee Schedule Could Expand RPM Reimbursement. Impressive as it was in 2018, this trend of groundbreaking remote care stories is sure to continue into 2019.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 8, 2023

Welcome to the weekly edition of Healthcare IT Today Bonus Features. Because there’s so much happening out there in healthcare IT we aren’t able to cover in our full articles, we still want to make sure you’re informed of all the latest news, announcements, and stories happening to help you better do your job. Jennifer J.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 18, 2022

Healthcare IT News sat down with this digital health investor to talk about digital health investment trends during the pandemic and where he sees funding trending in 2022 and beyond. Before COVID-19, a few companies, such as Livongo, made a splash in the digital health community by going public – Livongo in July 2019.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Beyond the fact that DotCom Therapy has been successfully delivering services since 2015, a review of two dozen studies in 2019 found that phone and video therapies were equally effective at treating conditions like anxiety, depression, and post-traumatic stress disorder as in-person therapy.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Another study published in 2021 analyzed the geographic distribution of neurologists actively billing in Medicare and compared this to the geographic distribution of Medicare beneficiaries with neurologic disease. Second, there is a mismatch between where neurologists practice and where people with neurologic conditions live.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 20, 2023

million in 2019 to 28.5 Joining a QHIN will not be mandated, but the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has indicated that belonging to one will satisfy interoperability requirements for reimbursement adjustments – incentivizing participation as soon as this year.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 11, 2023

Ophelia is licensed to provide care in 36 states and contracted with Medicaid, Medicare and commercial insurers covering 85 million American lives. Healthcare IT News published a special report highlighting many of these vendors, with detailed descriptions of their products. Click here to read the special report. Enterprise Taxonomy:

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