Telebehavioral Health Institute

AUGUST 4, 2022

On July 27, 2022, Congresswoman Liz Cheney (R-WY) and Congresswoman Debbie Dingell (D-MI) celebrated the House passage of their Advancing Telehealth Beyond COVID–19 Act of 2022. It extends critical Medicare telehealth policies and is implemented during the pandemic through December 31, 2024. Reading Time: 3 minutes. – Rep.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Rippl Raises $32 Million to Build the Future of Mental Health Care for Seniors. Rippl , a mental health company focused on caring for seniors with dementia and other neurocognitive conditions, launched today with $32 million in seed round funding led by ARCH Venture Partners and General Catalyst.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

JANUARY 17, 2023

While the official end of the public health emergency (PHE) was extended to April 2023 for many federal government programs, two federal actions will further extend the deadline for federal Medicare reimbursement until at least December 31, 2024.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 7, 2022

This is true across all income categories, from those earning under $24,000 a year to the well-off raking in $180K or more, we learn in Gallup’s poll conducted with West Health, finding that Majorities of people rank cost and equity of U.S. adults in late June 2022. — will vote on health care issues beyond Dobbs/Roe v.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Of all the payors consistently funded to expand telehealth in the immediate future, Medicare stands head and shoulders above many others. On October 8, the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released the final CY 2023 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (PFS) rule. Set to end in January 2023.,

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Health Populi

JUNE 27, 2022

Castlight published the full research findings in April in the company’s 2022 Workforce Health Index. The full report speaks to medical spending and utilization trends for preventive care, telehealth, and behavioral health. You can access state-by-state specifics on the Castlight Health supplemental dataset portal ].

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Health Populi

MARCH 9, 2022

If you made your living in commercial real estate — and especially, working with hospitals’ and health systems’ office space — would the concept of telehealth be freaking you out right now? If you heed the words of JLL’s 2022 Patient Consumer Survey , you’d chill (at least a bit). ” she added.

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MeMD

DECEMBER 7, 2021

MeMD, a part of the Walmart Health family, shares its outlook for telehealth in 2022 in areas including value-based care, mental health, provider shortages, transparency and more. More Americans Will Seek Mental Health Treatment Through Virtual Channels. Medicare, too, expanded telehealth benefits.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

AUGUST 17, 2022

in May, signaling that telehealth utilization is a serious contender for mental health and serious pandemic interventions. According to the Fair Health statistics , May was the second running month in which telehealth utilization has increased substantially. Following Telehealth Utilization Rates Using the Fair Health Tracker.

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Health Populi

JUNE 26, 2023

In addition to the points I explore here on patient administrative burden, please check out the KFF survey for more insights into peoples’ access to mental health benefits and other experiences with health plans. For more details on this important study, you can check out my post here in Health Populi from November 2022.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 2, 2023

We ended 2022 with this new, sobering statistic from the Centers tor Disease Control (CDC). In case you missed it in your pre-holiday wind-down, the CDC published two reports on declining life expectancy in America on December 22, 2022. Life expectancy in the U.S. Drug Overdose Deaths in the United States, 20021-2021.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Then it’s sleep and weight health consumers are most keen to track (for about one-half of those using health apps and tech’s), and then diet/food/counting calories (41%), and in fifth place, tracking blood pressure (for 36% of digital health tech users).

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 10, 2022

House of Representatives approved an omnibus spending bill late Wednesday night that extends temporary telehealth flexibilities under Medicare beyond the COVID-19 pandemic. Senate, several COVID-19-era telehealth policies will remain in place for about five months after the public health emergency ends. ON THE RECORD.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

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. Walmart launched a ten-year collaboration with Optum in late 2022.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 23, 2023

With Congress providing telehealth waivers as part of its omnibus spending bill at the close of 2022, delaying the "telehealth cliff" for two years, HIMSS says it's now ready to make the case for permanent reimbursement of virtual care. We now have three years of data on the impact to the Medicare Trust Fund," he said.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Telehealth visits billed to Medicare are currently paid at the same fee-for-service rate as an in-person visit. Medicare added over 100 billing codes for the duration of the public health emergency. Executives invested in technology and infrastructure for telehealth to meet the unprecedented demand for telehealth services.

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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. Around 89,000 providers are now using telehealth services. million ($22.8

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 23, 2023

The convenience and comfort telehealth delivers for managing non-urgent, routine care for mental health, chronic disease or pain is too good to revert to always in-person appointments. Further, telehealth services are becoming more accessible, which is driving greater adoption. For example, the U.S.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 24, 2022

What happens to a health care ecosystem when the volume of patients and revenues they generate decline? How would that further impact the micro-economy of health care? A report from Trilliant on the 2022 Trends Shaping the Health Economy helps to inform our response to that question.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 7, 2023

News CMS has opened the Hardship Exception application period for eligible hospitals and critical access hospitals (CAHs) that participated in the Medicare Promoting Interoperability Program in 2022. The analysis also found that Z-codes are most frequently used in behavioral health and acute care settings.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

JANUARY 26, 2023

The survey results showed that behavioral health, particularly mental health, remained a top service category in the state fiscal year (FY) 2022. This increase in telehealth utilization led to an uptick in outpatient Medicaid visits for behavioral health services.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

In addition, half of patients with Type 2 diabetes reported mental health concerns, 45% faced financial concerns due to the cost of care, and 32% said they didn’t trust the U.S. The company also announced Advanced Recovery Systems, bluebird bio, and John Muir Health as customers. healthcare system to keep them healthy.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

The article below outlines Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement provisions that behavioral telehealth clinicians can expect in the near-to-mid range. Medicare Telehealth Both federal and state legislative groups have passed several groundbreaking behavioral telehealth regulations enacted in January 2023 and will endure permanently.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 8, 2022

Additionally, several telehealth flexibilities (that generally expand Medicare coverage for telehealth services) have been extended 151 days (about five months) beyond the termination of the HHS PHE. If Medicare coverage requirements for telehealth services (e.g., More practitioners can provider covered telehealth services (e.g.,

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Digital Health Global

APRIL 6, 2023

Bergen New Bridge Medical Center, the fourth largest publicly owned hospital in the nation, is a full-service, 1,070-bed safety-net hospital that provides ambulatory, acute, mental health and substance use disorder treatment and long-term care services to Bergen County, New Jersey. In May 2022, Altera joined N.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Some of the key facts include the following: The FQ modifier code was approved in 2022 for when a service is rendered using audio-only technology. The technology allows for two-way, real-time communication behavioral health services (counseling and therapy),1 although it was reportedly effective 1-1-2022.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Since January 2022 , the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and other federal agencies have had their eyes on California with the launch of the nation’s largest-ever program to transform the healthcare system for vulnerable communities. .”

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BHM Healthcare Solutions

AUGUST 23, 2022

Similar to traditional telepsychiatry, asynchronous telepsychiatry promises address unmet mental health needs. In 2020, legislation increased Medicare-supported residency slots for the first time in decades. Psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner. Asynchronous Telepsychiatry. Create treatment plans.

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Digital Health Global

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

One Medical’s seamless in-office and 24/7 virtual care services, on-site labs, and programs for preventive care, chronic care management, common illnesses, and mental health concerns have been delighting people for the past 15 years. (NASDAQ: ONEM, “One Medical”) announced that Amazon completed its acquisition of One Medical.

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Henry Kotula

AUGUST 28, 2023

Drug-Pricing Laws With the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022, Congress took meaningful action to lower drug prices , a move the CBO estimates would reduce the federal deficit by $237 billion over 10 years. Mental Health Finally, the mental health of our country is in decline with rates of anxiety, depression and suicide on the rise.

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Health Populi

JULY 29, 2022

So even older work-age patients are seeking the convenient communication channel of text in 2022. Interestingly, roughly 1 in 2 people across all ages would like to receive a plain old phone call post-appointment from a health care providers. Power 2022 U.S. Heath Populi’s Hot Points: The J.D. billion in 2018.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 9, 2023

are affected by a musculoskeletal condition, which can negatively affect overall physical and mental health, RTM can be especially relevant for people preparing for, and recovering from, ever-more-common knee and hip surgeries. are affected by a musculoskeletal condition, which can negatively affect overall physical and mental health.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 2, 2021

” As I am curating my TrendCast for 2022 for health+tech+people, I’m absorbing a range of forecasts that are my annual go-to’s for my own clients’ scenario planning work. Right now, I’m marinating in some of the expectations from my friends at TrendWatching.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

JULY 21, 2022

The White House Office on National Drug Policy (ONDCP) supports permanent telehealth prescribing for people with Substance Use Disorders (SUD), according to the issued guidance “ Telehealth and Substance Use Disorder Services in the Era of Covid-19: Review and Recommendations ” published on June 22, 2022.

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Health Populi

MAY 20, 2022

A couple retiring in 2022 should budget $315,000 to cover their health care costs in retirement, based on the 21st annual Retiree Health Care Cost Estimate from Fidelity Investments. in March 2022 was $436,700. The poll was conducted in February and March 2022 among 2,022 adults 18 years of age and older.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Health Populi’s Hot Points: The shift to telehealth will persist post-pandemic, into 2022, the extent of which will depend on two key uncertainties in this moment: How payors will set reimbursement/payment levels for virtual care, both public sector (Medicare, Medicaid, VA) and commercial health plans; and, The pace of the rate of update by (..)

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 6, 2023

Healthcare accounted for 36% of all enterprise data breaches in 2022 , according to the latest research from ForgeRock. The report also cited a 50% increase in breaches from 2022 as compared to 2021. Behavioral health program provider United We Care launched its mental health and wellness coaching program in the United States.

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