Telebehavioral Health Institute

JANUARY 12, 2023

In January 2023, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) rolled out a new telehealth “indicator” to make information about Medicare telehealth providers on publically-available clinician profile pages more readily available. Medicare Telemedicine Snapshot Data File. 2021 (2021).

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 29, 2023

Read more… Public Health Transparency Improves Outcomes in San Bernardino County. Earlier this month, we highlighted Colin Hung’s conversation with San Bernardino County Department of Public Health about embracing GIS technology.

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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. Re-building a community health system from an innovative blueprint. The investor General Catalyst has partnered with over 20 health systems in the past few years, learning along the way.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

The aspirational document sets out the mission that “every individual deserves the right to obtain health care that is comprehensive, equitable and compassionate.” Health Populi’s Hot Points: Is there an American Civil Right for health care?

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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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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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Telebehavioral Health Institute

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

The White House recently announced a two-year extension for telehealth waivers, but higher telehealth coverage for physicians and hospitals is only approved through the end of 2023. Telehealth visits billed to Medicare are currently paid at the same fee-for-service rate as an in-person visit.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

MARCH 9, 2023

Based on current COVID-19 recovery trends, the Department of Health and Human Services announced that the US federal Public Health Emergency (PHE) waivers will end on May 11, 2023. Private payers, Medicaid, and Medicare initiated widespread telehealth reimbursement approvals.

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Health Populi

APRIL 16, 2024

Presidential elections to that point, and that the last retiring Baby Boomer enrolls in Medicare that year. Let’s take a walk with “Quincy” through each of the four worlds to see how their health care experience might play out across the key driving forces. In 2030, every Boomer will have been eligible for Medicare.

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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). Controversial since its announcement in 2020, the requirement was codified as part of the 2023 Physician’s Fee Schedule.

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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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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 23, 2023

News and Studies The 2024 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Proposed Rule from CMS would continue many of the public health emergency telehealth flexibilities, such as an expanded definition of telehealth practitioners, continued payments to rural health centers and FQHCs, and the expansion of originating sites.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 11, 2023

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. KFF noted that the 2022 Bipartisan Safer Communities Act legislation requires the federal government to issue telehealth guidance by the end of 2023.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

News The 2024 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule continues many telehealth flexibilities first adopted during the public health emergency, such as an expanded scope of originating sites an expanded definition of qualified practitioners. As a result, these flexibilities will be in place until at least Dec. 1, 2024.

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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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Health Populi

JANUARY 2, 2023

We begin 2023 with the opening of CES 2023, the world’s largest annual meet-up of consumer electronics innovators, companies, and retailers. How can digital health and other consumer-facing technologies help our health? Inf act, heart health is table-stakes for much of wearable technology in 2023.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

JULY 10, 2023

Practitioners of all healthcare professions will be impacted by the upcoming end of the public health emergency (PHE). They include the following: If my client has a residence in my state of licensure, is it still going to be ok for me to work with them after the end of the COVID public health emergency?

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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. Global venture capital funding was just $21 billion in April 2023 , a 56% drop from April 2022, according to Crunchbase.

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BHM Healthcare Solutions

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

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. Click for the brief: Key Takeaways from the 2023 Final Star Ratings.

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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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Telebehavioral Health Institute

JULY 11, 2023

Practitioners of all healthcare professions will be impacted by the upcoming end of the public health emergency (PHE). They include the following: If my client has a residence in my state of licensure, is it still going to be ok for me to work with them after the end of the COVID public health emergency?

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 16, 2023

Studies A report from Health Gorilla found that 95% of patients are concerned about the possibility of data breaches affecting their medical records , and 65% distrust “Big Tech” to store their data. Health information network Availity was awarded Compliance Leader Verification by the Ethisphere Institute.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

AUGUST 4, 2022

It extends critical Medicare telehealth policies and is implemented during the pandemic through December 31, 2024. It is particularly favorable to practitioners offering telebehavioral health to Medicare beneficiaries. Telebehavioral Health Background: Medicare Telehealth Policies and Reimbursement. – Rep.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

MARCH 29, 2023

Practitioners of all healthcare professionals will be impacted by the upcoming end of the public health emergency (PHE). They include the following: If my client has a residence in my state of licensure, is it still going to be ok for me to work with them after the end of the COVID public health emergency?

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 21, 2023

Series B funding proceeds will enable Scene to further accelerate its ability to serve Medicaid and Medicare managed care plans, pharmaceutical companies, and clinical research organizations. Originally announced April 11th, 2023 This financing brings the total investment in Scene to over $25 million since its founding in 2014.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

On the other hand, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is looking at eliminating Medicare coverage for the modality. Still, with some specific behavioral health services exceptions, the federal PHE ends a few months later.

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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? Add to that scenario a growing consensus for a likely recession in 2023. How would that further impact the micro-economy of health care? In the U.S., ” Dr. Cosgrove based that sobering forecast due to changes in the U.S.

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Connected Health Initiative

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

The Promise of Digital Health Exists, Connected Health Initiative Urges Congress to Achieve Potential January 31, 2023—Today, ACT | The App Association’s Connected Health Initiative (CHI) released its priorities for the 118 th Congress. Number of U.S.

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Health Populi

JUNE 6, 2023

In health care, one of the “gifts” inspired by the coronavirus pandemic was the industry’s fast-pivot and adoption of digital health tools — especially telehealth and more generally the so-called “digital front doors” enabling patients to access medical services and personal work-flows for their care.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Entering 2023, U.S. health citizens face physical, financial, and mental health challenges of a syndemic, inflation, and stress – all of which will shape peoples’ demand side for health care and digital technology, and a supply side of providers challenged by tech-enabled organizations with design and data chops.

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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. Telehealth.HHS.gov. Conclusion.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 16, 2023

The COVID-19 public health emergency prompted a rapid shift to telemedicine as both a replacement and adjunct to usual in-person care. However, based on the National Institute on Aging's National Health and Aging Trends Study , researchers estimated roughly one-third of older adults in the U.S.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 28, 2023

Mimi Winsberg, Co-Founder and Chief Medical Officer at Brightside Health We have been in an uncertain time for regulation around telemedicine, and there are a few key trends to watch. cut to physicians who treat the country’s most vulnerable patients through Medicare. The FDA’s RTA policy, effective Oct.

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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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Henry Kotula

JULY 28, 2023

[link] In January 2023, the Rockefeller Institute published a three-part blog series on trends to watch in healthcare in 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.

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GlobalMed

JUNE 16, 2021

The Association of American Medical Colleges predicts a primary care provider shortfall , with numbers landing between 21,000 to 55,000 by 2023. Medicare has also dramatically loosened its restrictions on telehealth coverage. Finally, telemedicine helps PCPs build a foundation for an increasingly technological healthcare future.

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SteadyMD

MARCH 17, 2022

Unfortunately, many telehealth waivers were created to be temporary and limited to the duration of the COVID-19 PHE–even though they have improved patient access to care and affect both public health programs and private health coverage.

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