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Billing Telehealth Updates for the South Central Region – January 2021

South Central Telehealth Resource Center

Payors continue to make permanent telehealth policy changes that incorporate greater telehealth flexibilities. Permanent telehealth changes seen from payors such as Cigna and UHC include the removal of the originating site restriction and expanded telehealth code sets. HIPAA compliant platform is required after PHE ends.

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Bonus Features – July 31, 2022 – House passes bill to extend telehealth flexibility to 2024, only 60% of practices hit their 2021 revenue goal, and more

Healthcare IT Today

House of Representatives passed by a 416-12 vote the Advancing Telehealth Beyond COVID–19 Act of 2021 , which would extend the telehealth flexibilities put in place during the public health emergency until the end of 2024.

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Ten In Ten: Manatt’s Healthcare Priorities to 2031

Health Populi

Achieve health equity. Stability the safety net and rebuild public health. Address social determinants of health. Accelerate digital health. Secure health data (updating privacy/HIPAA). Help our children achieve their potential. Innovate long-term care. Advance academic medicine.

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Billing Telehealth Updates for the South Central Region – December 2020

South Central Telehealth Resource Center

As we enter the new year we are seeing numerous payor telehealth policy changes, and therefore we have made several updates to the Virtual Visit Billing Guides for Arkansas, Tennessee, and Mississippi. The federal PHE can only be extended 90 days at a time, and therefore may very well extend past January 20 th , 2021. National Payors.

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Wearable Tech for Health Tracking, Online Dating and Banking: Exploring the “Fluidity” of Peoples’ Data Privacy Views

Health Populi

Yet these aspects of data privacy (and others) are central to the needed trust bridge between patients and the health care providers, clinicians, researchers, and teams that are meant to have peoples’ best interests in bolstering their health, and more broadly community and public health. adults in the COVID-era.

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Telehealth in Idaho: Regulations Withdrawn

Health Law Blog | Telehealth

As part of Governor Little’s initiative to reduce nonessential regulations, Idaho licensing boards (including the Idaho Board of Medicine) have withdrawn their rules implementing the Idaho Telehealth Access Act for healthcare providers, including physicians, physician assistants, dentists, and psychologists. ( SCOPE OF PRACTICE. 54-5712.

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Managing the Risks of Fast-Growing Digital Health

Health Populi

With such turbocharged growth on the supply side, Beazley, experts in specialty insurance, explores the risks of digital health and wellness in a new report, Digital health, telehealth and wellness: Attitudes to risk and insurance. Three in five said their growth was due to COVID-19.