care innovations

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

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. Providers will be compensated fairly for delivering remote monitoring.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JUNE 4, 2020

So we know that ‘remote care’ and ‘caring’ in its various forms, including telehealth , seem to be heating up as a priority , whether for senior living organizations , families, healthcare provider organizations. Their latest surveys about smartphone and broadband, as with the Caregiver study, were completed in 2019.

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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. How to shore up telehealth cybersecurity. How to navigate a new policy landscape.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 30, 2020

But the interest and use of telehealth in senior living has been accelerating since April 2019, when Medicare Advantage plans began covering it. And further, when senior living companies were enabled to provide their own Medicare advantage plans , that piqued more interest in telehealth.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

The lack of a sufficient number of clinicians to support these underserved communities can be reduced by the use of telepsychiatry services that permit clinicians who do not live in those areas to provide remote care from wherever they live, provided they are licensed in the state of the patient’s residence.

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Iris Telehealth

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Among adults aged 50-80, telehealth usage jumped from 4% in May 2019 to 26% in June 2020. The offering of remote care delivery can help them receive non-discriminatory care from a safe location. LGBTQIA+: LBGTQIA+ adults and youth can be impacted by discrimination in healthcare settings.

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care innovations

JULY 25, 2018

Reimbursement for telehealth services by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has long been a point of contention. Medicare “remains one of the most restrictive payors” for telehealth , with reimbursement rules that Marki Stewart at the Dickinson Wright Health Law Blog calls “exceptionally limiting.”

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care innovations

AUGUST 21, 2018

Add to this the idea that it’s not right to give different people different care based on their insurer. And — even if it isn’t about making money — they have to choose where to invest to ensure they keep the doors open, or they don’t care for ANYONE. How Remote Care Reimbursement Is Helping to Bridge the Gap.

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care innovations

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

Meanwhile, lawmakers and policymakers alike have agreed on the need for telehealth expansion, including provisions in the 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), the USDA/Rural Utility Service (RUS)-administered rural telemedicine program.

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care innovations

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

the year kicked off with a modification of CPT code 99091 by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), which “ immediately increased the amount of billable Medicare hours available for doctors and clinicians who utilize remote care services ,” as we reported in January. In the U.S.,

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In Hand Health

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Over the past two months, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has begun shifting its policies in favor of telemedicine and telehealth services. But they want to make sure that an e-visit or other remote care is just as good as they’d get in person, and that their health information stays private.”.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

As Deeptha Khanna, Philips’ Chief Business Leader for Personal Health, said in the company’s virtual press conference, “We have [also] witnessed the reinvention of our homes as a core element of the healthcare pathway, with telehealth, virtual and remote care technologies as the key drivers for change during COVID-19.

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