South Central Telehealth Resource Center

APRIL 14, 2021

However, Medicare was one payor that did add several allowable codes to their telehealth list, which will be very beneficial for facilities in increasing their telehealth utilization. Extended the cost share waiver for Medicare Advantage primary care telehealth visits for the duration of the Federal PHE. Short Descriptor.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Geisinger plans to open more clinics for primary care, senior care, and convenient/retail care. Of particular note is the organization’s “promise of health assurance – care that is more proactive, accessible, and affordable to people everywhere.” Retail health-meets-Medicare.

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South Central Telehealth Resource Center

MARCH 4, 2021

Providing a quick high-level overview of the recent updates, all payors have extended their telehealth flexibilities to at least the end of the federal Public Health Emergency (PHE), which is currently set to end on April 21 st , 2021. UHC has followed suit with Cigna and Medicare and rolled out significant permanent telehealth changes.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

The funds will support the company’s launch of virtual primary care services in California, Texas, and Washington in 2022, introducing an improved and long overdue healthcare experience for Latinos built on trust, community, and culture. “We Despite this growth, the U.S. About Erik Cardenas. About Mariza Hardin.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

consumers’ virtual visit utilization from 2021 to 2023, showing a downturn in telehealth — from 57% of consumers attending a virtual medical appointment in 2021 falling to 42% of consumers in 2023. .” The bar chart updates our understanding of U.S.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 16, 2020

This is according to a new annual report from research and consulting giant PwC entitled “Top health industry issues of 2021: Will a shocked system emerge stronger?” " Payers may wrestle with how to reimburse and, in some cases, provide virtual care.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 24, 2021

In the 19th and 20th centuries, segregated black hospitals were emblematic of separate but unequal health care,” begins the editorial introducing an entire issue of JAMA dedicated to racial and ethnic disparities and inequities in medicine and health care, published August 17, 2021.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

By the spring of 2021, telehealth use stabilized, but health systems had built the processes and policies to deliver on the promise of omni-channel health care — from the patient’s home and hands (via smartphones) into community sites closer-to-home, and returning to brick-and-mortar medical buildings. In 2020, 79% of U.S.

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Digital Health Wire

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Here’s a quick primer on Walmart’s healthcare strategy, which so-far can be bucketed into three themes: Medicare and MA health plans, primary care, and employer virtual care. The 30 current locations provide primary care, urgent care, labs, imaging, optometry, audiology, and even dentistry.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

UPMC Central Pennsylvania, a hospital that in 2021 achieved Stage 7, the top of the HIMSS Electronic Medical Record Adoption Model, has been a leader in telemedicine, with more than two dozen robust virtual care programs. The virtual-first primary care was launched in January of 2021 to a ten-county geography in central Pennsylvania.

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Health Populi

JUNE 27, 2022

As a result, commercial healthcare spending fell in 2020, rebounding in 2021. 2020-2021 was a sort of “catching-up-with-healthcare” year, seeing the PMPM spend grow by 8.7%. Commercially insured workers in low-income communities also had fewer visits per 1000 members for telehealth in 2020 and 2021.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

I started the Health Populi blog in September 2007 with a post titled “Health Care is the #1 Line Item in Our National Economy… and Taking More Out of Your Pocket,” displaying this sign from Tom’s Shell gas station comparing the price of gas to an “Arm, Leg, or your First Born” posted on their sign in 2007.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 26, 2022

in primary care, and 14.7% Value-Based Care. When VBC programs were expanded as part of the Affordable Care Act in 2010 and the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA) in 2015, there was hope that the existing fee-for-service model would begin to decline. in surgical specialties, 6.7%

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 30, 2021

senators has reintroduced the Creating Opportunities Now for Necessary and Effective Care Technologies (CONNECT) for Health Act of 2021. The act would expand coverage of Medicare telehealth services and make some COVID-19 telehealth flexibilities permanent, among other provisions. Access for Medicare beneficiaries.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Acquisition further advances CVS Health’s care delivery strategy for consumers CVS Health® (NYSE: CVS ) and Oak Street Health (NYSE: OSH ) have entered into a definitive agreement under which CVS Health will acquire Oak Street Health in an all-cash transaction at $39 per share, representing an enterprise value of approximately $10.6

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Health Populi

AUGUST 25, 2020

Among these visits, 76% were with a primary care provider, 32% with a specialty care provider, and 18% with a mental health provider, the study found. Four in ten older people who had experienced telehealth also said they would be interested in telehealth for mental health care in the future.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Doximity’s second report on telemedicine explores both physicians’ and patients’ views on virtual care, finding most doctors and health consumers on the same page of virtual care adoption. For the physicians’ profile, Doximity examined 180,000 doctors’ who billed Medicare for telemedicine claims between January 2020 and June 2021.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 24, 2020

Part 2 will cover the impact of COVID-19 on physician well-being, and Part 3, on the impact of the coronavirus on the health care system. believe the pandemic won’t be under control until sometime after June 1, 2021. One-half of physicians in the U.S. On the payor front, large U.S.

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David Chou

MARCH 25, 2023

This shift signals a potential change in the retail healthcare sector as companies strive to gain market dominance in primary care, concierge medicine, virtual care and home medical services while providing patients with personalized experiences. billion in the fourth quarter of 2021. The move comes at a price tag of $3.9

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 27, 2022

This latest award is a $2 million grant that will allow our applied researchers to establish a patient safety learning laboratory over a four-year funding period, applying a cross-disciplinary, human factors and systems engineering approach to connected care enhancements. Since health systems across the U.S.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Their ability to recover in 2021 and 2022 as the national economy heals and again grows will be a crucial time period to strategic plan and executive for a future that is not defined by a traditional inpatient bed.

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Continue Education Journal

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Reimbursement: Some reimbursement changes from the pandemic have been made permanent, such as the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ expansion of reimbursable telehealth codes for the 2021 physician fee schedule. 2021, July 22). Retrieved October 4, 2021, from [link]. Sources: Bestsennyy, O., Gilbert, G.,

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 12, 2021

"[Telehealth] has played a critical role in ensuring the continuity of care for hundreds of thousands of Australian patients during the COVID-19 pandemic, protecting the health of patients and health professionals," a government statement read. million ($220 million) investment in the country's primary care system.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

This proportion of folks interested in sharing their wearable health data grew from 56% in 2021 to 91% in 2023. The two biggest reasons patients look to share their data with physicians is to (1) take a more active role in their own care (for 82% of consumers) and (2) to improve their health outcomes (among 77%).

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Digital Health Global

JANUARY 25, 2024

Report by Anitha Rao and Robert Eaton, published by the Society of Actuaries May 2021 3 Lang L, Clifford A, Wei L, et al. Detection Rates of Mild Cognitive Impairment in Primary Care for the United States Medicare Population. BMJ Open 2017;7:e011146. Doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2016-011146 4 Liu, Y.,

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South Central Telehealth Resource Center

JULY 1, 2020

The change initially included primary care providers, specialists and behavioral health providers and was later expanded to include occupational, physical and speech therapy as well as ABA therapy services. . “In March, the mission-driven insurer began covering telephone and video visits with in-network providers. Stay tuned….

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Without a health plan, an uninsured person in America is far more likely to file for bankruptcy due to medical costs, and lack access to needed health care (and especially primary care). adults with health insurance, 18 years of age and older, and was fielded between 24 and 28 June 2021.

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David Chou

MAY 16, 2022

In 2021, there was an aspiration of a deal valued at more than $9 billion. This move comes as healthcare providers are under increasing pressure to value-based care and merge or acquit to remain competitive. There is an accelerated play to increase the number of covered entities for all payers and health plans.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 18, 2023

Value-based care makes care more affordable for patients while rewarding clinicians for improved care, and the industry recognizes the value. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has expanded Medicare Advantage through 2023 to make the shift, and digital health tools are crucial for support.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

JUNE 20, 2023

As you read about them below, you will undoubtedly see the bigger picture – how they are positioning telehealth and telemedicine reimbursement to steadily become a cornerstone of advancing 21st-century healthcare for US citizens, starting with additional Medicare revisions. The following article briefly outlines both bills.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

The American Telemedicine Association was among several groups this week that submitted comments to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services regarding the 2021 Physician Fee Schedule proposed rule. WHY IT MATTERS.

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MeMD

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Today, virtual care has taken its place as a mainstay of the U.S. healthcare system: A July 2021 report from McKinsey & Co. The company’s talk therapy visits shot up 224% in 2020, but that was just the beginning: MeMD saw more visits in the first quarter of 2021 than in all of 2019 combined. McKinsey & Co.

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South Central Telehealth Resource Center

JUNE 18, 2020

The change initially included primary care providers, specialists and behavioral health providers and was later expanded to include occupational, physical and speech therapy as well as ABA therapy services. All of these services will now be covered on an ongoing basis.” Stay tuned…. Sources: [link].

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

JUNE 20, 2023

As you read about them below, you will undoubtedly see the bigger picture – how they are positioning telehealth and telemedicine reimbursement to steadily become a cornerstone of advancing 21st-century healthcare for US citizens, starting with additional Medicare revisions. The following article briefly outlines both bills.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

OCTOBER 22, 2020

In fact, in April, 43% of primary care visits for Medicare patients were through telehealth. Through July, CMS noted that 10 million Medicare beneficiaries used telehealth visits. Their efforts will likely be more formalized through multiple proposed 2021 regulatory changes. The total of 34.5

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Digital Health Global

DECEMBER 12, 2023

worsened by 40 percent from 2020 to 2021. While all ages and races saw an increase in maternal mortality in 2021, many inequities still exist due to a variety of factors, including but not limited to access to quality care, socioeconomic status, race and education level. Contacts Julia Cremin jcremin@pcipr.com 331-333-2928

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Redox

MARCH 24, 2021

For example, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) granted reimbursement for telehealth visits at the same rates as in-person visits, and the Department of Health and Human Services eased measures that restricted the use of telehealth. Here’s to telehealth in 2021! Telehealth adoption has also gotten a boost federally.

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