Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

The Telehealth Benefit Expansion for Workers Act would amend the Public Health Service Act, the Employee Retirement Income and Security Act of 1974 and the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow employers to treat benefits for telehealth services like excepted benefits. In an announcement about the bipartisan bill, Rep.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 11, 2023

Notably, by July 2022, all state Medicaid programs provided at least some audio-only coverage for behavioral wellness. Guth also said that Medicaid program respondents also indicated that they are awaiting federal guidance to inform their long-term telehealth policy decisions, such as Medicare policies. " THE LARGER TREND.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 20, 2023

A bipartisan group of legislators has reintroduced the Creating Opportunities Now for Necessary and Effective Care Technologies for Health Act – first introduced in 2016 – to expand opportunities and coverage for telehealth through Medicare. Remove unnecessary in-person visit requirements for telemental health services.

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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

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). This week, the U.S.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Patients and health plan members continue evolving into medical bill payers, with their homes and budgets baked into the concept. 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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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. When a service is performed in a facility (e.g., Private payers, known as commercial insurers, are regulated by state law.

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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. Department of Health and Human Services loosened restrictions on virtual care. Medicare, too, expanded telehealth benefits.

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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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Continue Education Journal

AUGUST 31, 2022

WASHINGTON, DC, AUGUST 31, 2022 – The American Telemedicine Association (ATA) and ATA Action issued the following statement in response to today’s publication of a study authored by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, and the National Institute on Drug Abuse.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

JANUARY 26, 2023

This week’s installment concerns a recently published blog post about a controversial reimbursement requirement for telemental health telehealth after the end of the public health emergency (PHE). ” See New Medicare Law Requires In-Person Visit for Telehealth Coverage for more information. .”

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BHM Healthcare Solutions

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

The federal government paid $10 billion in bonus payments in 2022, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation. For Medicare plans providing health coverage, such as Medicare Advantage or Medicare Cost plans, each plan is given an overall summary rating based on how it performs across five main categories: Chronic conditions management.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 8, 2022

The Department of Health and Human Services once again (for the ninth time) extended the public health emergency this past month , stretching it beyond mid-July. But sooner or later, that provision of the Public Health Service Act will draw to a close. Here's what she had to say. PTs, OTs, and SLPs).

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Given the official ambiguity about the official termination of the COVID-related Public Health Emergency (PHE ), it may be time to discuss using the “FQ” telephone CPT code and available resources for provider groups and individuals delivering telephone-based services.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 25, 2022

With those flexibilities due to sunset 151 days after the federal Public Health Emergency expires, HIMSS is calling on its members to contact their senators and representatives and urge them to extend coverage of telehealth services under Medicare until at least December 31, 2024.

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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 9, 2021

health care and that volumes turned downward in 2020. health care as it is currently organized, financed, and delivered. The COVID-19 pandemic has, in fact, had a positive impact on spending per se given the volume-based nature of U.S. The COVID-19 pandemic revealed many weaknesses in U.S.

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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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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. In the U.S.,

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Health Populi

MAY 20, 2021

health citizens’ memories will last into 2022 with respect to cross-party desire for the U.S. to approve Medicare’s negotiation of drug prices with pharmaceutical companies]. Consumer health’s fall from 63% in 2019 to 51% in 2020. Hospitals’ fall from 70% to 63% between 2018 and 2019.

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TheraNest

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

The American Psychiatric Association has historically petitioned the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to relax certain requirements around e-prescribing due to various challenges around its use. The president declared the opioid addiction epidemic a “National Public Health Emergency” in 2017. California — 1/1/2022.

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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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Telebehavioral Health Institute

AUGUST 31, 2022

Sold on the dark web, healthcare data is used for false identification documents and to make false Medicare claims, amongst other things. The 2022 IBM Data Breach Report shows that financial damages resulting from security breaches have been the highest in the healthcare industry for 12 consecutive years.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MAY 26, 2022

Is 2022 the tipping point for technology and older adults? Consider these six blog posts from April and May 2022. Telehealth vs. in-person: the Covid-19 public health emergency declaration to reimburse doctors for providing telehealth services for Medicare recipients has been repeatedly renewed.

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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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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 18, 2022

For the health IT community, 2022 has been a big year. . In January, the Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement (TEFCA) became a reality, and in October applications opened for organizations seeking designation as Qualified Health Information Networks (QHINs).

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Biden’s statement, which divided the public health community and the public, has wide-reaching implications for the fate of connected health and vital telehealth services. Department of Health and Human Services Alex Azar signed the first Public Health Emergency declaration , declaring COVID-19 a national emergency.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 6, 2023

An end to the Public Health Emergency (PHE) is likely to be announced and end mid-January followed by a grace period of approximately 5 months. And with the Public Health Emergency (PHE) set to expire in January, stakeholders are urgently calling upon Congress to pass the Advancing Telehealth Beyond COVID-19 Act of 2021.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 28, 2023

And in a 2022 Kaiser California study, patients who participated in a virtual cardiac rehab program experienced 21% fewer hospital stays over 12 months than those who attended a facility program. "An individual with heart disease costs Medicare twice as much as the typical beneficiary," he concluded. " The U.S.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

Biden’s statement, which divided the public health community and the public, has wide-reaching implications for the fate of connected health and vital telehealth services. Department of Health and Human Services Alex Azar signed the first Public Health Emergency declaration , declaring COVID-19 a national emergency.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Mental and behavioral health for seniors is a massive hidden public health crisis. The total national cost of care for dementia patients, including those with Alzheimer’s disease, is projected to be $321 billion in 2022, which does not include the financial and emotional toll on family caregivers.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 22, 2022

the title of the article updating the winter 2022-23 sick-season asked. Thus, the sage advice as we approach gatherings for Christmastime 2022: “Close your mouth and step away from the human,” by Katherine Wu of The Atlantic. We enter 2023 with home economics setting our tables as a context for our overall health and well-being.

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Clear Arch Health

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

2023 Public Health Emergency Update: On January 30, 2023, the Biden Administration announced plans to officially bring the public health emergency (PHE) to an end by May 11, 2023 in response to current COVID-19 trends. There is even a new Behavioral Health Integration code: G0323.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra this week urging the agency to extend the COVID-19 public health emergency through at least the end of 2022. "Further, we support your signifying that the duration would be at least through the end of calendar year 2022. THE LARGER TREND.

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Health Populi

JUNE 2, 2021

and how much care would be postponed or never realized in the health care system. A big uncertainty in this year’s forecast, pondering the 2022 picture, is what extent eliminate care will have on future adverse health outcomes… something that keeps my scenario planning humming across various modeling.

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Henry Kotula

JULY 28, 2023

The series covered broad issues related to the healthcare workforce, economy, and health policy, and highlighted internal industry changes and trends in service delivery, quality, and equity. The most notable impact of the non-renewal of the PHE was the end of continuous Medicaid public health insurance coverage.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 2, 2023

In the nation’s search for spending smarter on health care, the U.S. Over the past year, many stakeholders have come together to develop creative solutions to address food security for all — as a driver of health, productivity, and sustainability for the U.S. health care system.

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