FierceHealthIT

MARCH 12, 2024

President Joe Biden's 2025 budget did not just touch upon cybersecurity, the drug price negotiation program and Medicare solvency, as the plan also suggested policy for mental health, health equity | Many significant policy items in Biden's proposed 2025 fiscal year budget don't grab the initial headlines, but he's looking to make (..)

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Mental health Medicare 124

FierceHealthIT

APRIL 2, 2024

States now can add routine adult dental services as an essential health benefit, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced in its 2025 Notice of Benefit and Payment Parameters fina | In its annual Notice of Benefit and Payment Parameters final rule, CMS prioritized dental and prescription drug benefits, network adequacy standardization (..)

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Medicare 110

FierceHealthIT

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

A spike in care utilization among seniors and proposed Medicare Advantage rates that payers find less than satisfactory have dominated the conversation during the current run of industry earnings c | A spike in care utilization among seniors and proposed Medicare Advantage rates that payers find less than satisfactory have dominated the conversation (..)

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Medicare 52

FierceHealthIT

AUGUST 21, 2023

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released new draft guidance Monday on how it plans to roll out a program that allows Medicare members to spread out monthly payments for presc | New draft guidance gives a blueprint for pharmacies to begin offering monthly payments on prescription drugs starting in 2025.

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Medicare 98

Mend

APRIL 4, 2023

In part 2 of our blog series, Mend reviews the temporary Medicare changes for telehealth lasting until the end of 2024. Part one of our blog series covers the Medicare changes relating to telehealth that will remain a permanent policy. In 2025, these sites can serve as distant providers only for behavioral and mental health visits.

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Public Health Medicare Telehealth Mental health 52

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. This is the second time the bill has been reintroduced. Mike Thompson (D-Calif.)

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Medicare Telehealth Healthcare IT Public Health 126

FierceHealthIT

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services finalized its rule implementing cuts to state Medicaid Disproportionate Share Hospital (DSH) allotments by $4 billion next year.

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Medicare 69

Telebehavioral Health Institute

JANUARY 26, 2023

In February of 2022, Telehealth.org alerted the professional community that expanding Medicare reimbursement for telehealth from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) for video and audio services included an unpopular requirement for in-person meetings for telebehavioral health.

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Mental health Telehealth Medicare Public Health 75

Health Recovery Solutions

APRIL 11, 2022

According to estimates from a McKinsey study, $265 billion worth of care services for Medicare fee-for-service and Medicare Advantage beneficiaries could shift from traditional facilities to at-home care by 2025. The COVID-19 pandemic has catapulted home health services to the forefront.

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Medicare 52

Aging in Place Technology Watch

APRIL 26, 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. Acute care delivery at home for Medicare recipients has been endorsed by the American Hospital Association – and bills supporting it may pass.

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Medicare Telehealth Public Health 125

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. Other repercussions of the end of the PHE include the return of HIPAA and licensure enforcement.

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Public Health HIPAA Mental health Medicare 98

Health Populi

OCTOBER 10, 2022

And it’s crucial for incumbent health care suppliers — hospitals, pharma, devices and supplies, and health plans — to assess, learn, strategize and execute on the potential shift of $265 billion of care services that McKinsey expects to migrate to the home by 2025. Why, that’s just some months away from “now.”

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Primary Care Patient Experience Connected Health Digital Health 156

Health Populi

JULY 13, 2020

For health care, the data portrayed in the next chart will be concerning: the Medicare and Social Security Trust Funds are expected to hit “zero” (the X-access) by 2025 and just after 2030, respectively. The Medicare Trust Fund is financed by payroll taxes, general tax revenue, and the premiums enrollees pay.

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Primary Care Medicare Interoperability EHR 266

Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

in 2025, with upside in 2025 based on the successful resolution of its Medicare Stars Ratings mitigation efforts. About Oak Street Health Founded in 2012, Oak Street Health is a network of value-based primary care centers for adults on Medicare. And we do it all with heart, each and every day.

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Primary Care Medicare Patient Experience Nursing 81

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 13, 2022

However, earlier this month, it enforced changes to the Medicare Benefits Schedule for telehealth items , including the termination of 128 items, which some healthcare leaders warned would bring major consequences to patients. million) project is also led by Monash University and is expected to deliver solutions by 2025. million ($1.5

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Mental health Telehealth Patient Experience Medicare 128

Digital Health Global

JANUARY 25, 2024

1 Defined by a ratio of 9 or less of general adult neurologists to 10,000 ADRD (Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias) population projected for 2025 2 “Dementia Neurology Deserts and Long-Term Care Insurance Claims Experience in the United States – How Does Limited Supply of Neurologists Correlate with Claims Experience Data?”.

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Primary Care Digital Health Medicare 88

Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 24, 2023

Among those organizations not using automation, 80% plan to by the end of 2025. Arizona-based VBCare Network selected Spatially Health for identifying barriers to health equity in Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries. Chicago-area RML Specialty Hospital chose ScImage to support cloud-based PACS.

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RCM eCare Healthcare IT Mental health 102

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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Public Health Telehealth Medicare Mental health 52

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Research firm Frost & Sullivan forecasts a sevenfold growth in telehealth by 2025 – a five-year compound annual growth rate of 38%. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) began to allow for reimbursement for videoconferencing between healthcare provider and patient.

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Telemedicine Telehealth Medicare Nursing 171

Insulin Nation

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

According to the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services, the national health care expenditure, in total, for 2014 was $3 trillion, growing 5.3 health care expenditure and one-third of Medicare expenditures, or $600 billion a year. Through 2025, health care spending, per capita, is projected to grow by 4.8% faster than GDP.

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Medicare 71

Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 7, 2023

In the comments that we will submit to ONC on HTI-1, we’ll also be encouraging ONC and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to work more closely together to address the misalignments that frequently occur between when ONC tells software developers to deploy new certified versions and when CMS requires providers to be using them.

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Health IT EHR Interoperability Health Information 83

Xealth

MARCH 30, 2023

The shift to home-based care is happening and an estimated $265 billion of Medicare services could be delivered in the home by 2025! Healthcare continues to change—and we need to keep up!

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Interoperability EHR Medicare 52

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

McKinsey estimates $265 billion worth of care services for Medicare patients could shift from traditional facilities to the home by 2025. By 2030, all Baby Boomers will be over 65 – all as alternative care models emerge.

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Nursing Hospital IT Telehealth Mental health 141

ACA Times

JANUARY 11, 2022

Data issued by the Centers of Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) finds that Florida, Texas, and Georgia for example are experiencing never-before-seen levels of participation. The closest number of total signups was 12.7 million in 2016, during Obama’s final year in office. . In Florida, nearly 2.6

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Medicare 98

Telebehavioral Health Institute

JULY 11, 2023

The in-person visit has become the gold standard and is particularly relevant to behavioral professionals reimbursed by Medicare, especially since current law requires an in-person visit for telehealth coverage in 2025.)

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Telemedicine Telehealth Mental health Medicare 40

ACA Times

JULY 28, 2015

Analyzing data compiled by Medicare, the newspaper found that the number of nurse practitioners receiving payments from the program rose by 15% in 2013 compared to the previous year, and by 11% for physician assistants. By contrast, the number of general practice physicians paid by Medicare declined by 5% from the prior year.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

MAY 9, 2023

The in-person visit has become the gold standard and is particularly relevant to behavioral professionals reimbursed by Medicare, especially since current law requires an in-person visit for telehealth coverage in 2025.)

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Telemedicine Telehealth Mental health Medicare 40

BHM Healthcare Solutions

AUGUST 23, 2022

By 2025, that shortage could be as high as 6,090 psychiatrists, or 12 percent, according to the U.S. In 2020, legislation increased Medicare-supported residency slots for the first time in decades. This works out to a 6.4 percent shortage. Department of Health and Human Services. Telemedicine. Increase psychiatrist residency slots.

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Psychiatry Mental health Primary Care Telemedicine 52

Iris Telehealth

JULY 3, 2023

It’s one of the direct outcomes of the Medicaid 1115 waivers , it’s a primary outcome for certified community behavioral health centers (CCBHC) , and it’s going to be something that insurance payers, Medicare, and Medicaid will require. may be short by 6,090 to 15,600 psychiatrists by 2025.

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Primary Care Mental health Psychiatry Telehealth 95

Redox

OCTOBER 12, 2023

By 2025, the compound annual growth rate of healthcare data will reach 36%—6% faster than manufacturing, 10% faster than financial services, and 11% faster than media and entertainment. AI reimbursement Medicare and Medicaid are beginning to reimburse for AI applications on a per-use basis, though adoption is still in its infancy.

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FHIR Medicare Interoperability Health Data 69

Enzyme Health

JULY 31, 2019

Telemedicine is a big business; by 2025, it is projected to exceed $64.1 Medicare currently covers many telehealth services depending on coverage level and geography, but still faces some restrictions, with Medicare Advantage plan beneficiaries (about 14 million patients) receiving the broadest access ( ATA Telehealth Basics ).

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Telehealth Telemedicine Mental health Pain management 87

Medicine and Technology

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

Unless Congress acts first, GME will undergo untimely cuts in Medicare financing on March 1. That number is predicted to increase to 130,000 across all specialties by 2025. Residency training gives new physicians hands-on experience and provides high-quality care to patients," AMA President Jeremy A.

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Medicare 32

Iris Telehealth

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

It’s one of the direct outcomes of the Medicaid 1115 waivers , it’s a primary outcome for certified community behavioral health centers (CCBHC) , and it’s going to be something that insurance payers, Medicare, and Medicaid will require. may be short by 6,090 to 15,600 psychiatrists by 2025.

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Primary Care Mental health Psychiatry Telehealth 98

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 9, 2023

In 2025, it will become mandatory for hospitals under the Hospital Inpatient Quality Reporting (IQR) program to collect and report patient-reported outcomes, risk variables, matching variables and patient-reported outcomes-related variables for at least one-half of eligible total hip and total knee patients.

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Mental health Telehealth Remote care Patient Experience 114

FierceHealthIT

APRIL 18, 2024

Lawmakers pressed Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra over the Biden administration’s stance toward Medicare Advantage, rural health and more during budgetary hearings | HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra's comments on copay accumulators left patient advocacy groups baffled during a House hearing on the fiscal year 2025 (..)

Medicare 90

Medicare 90

Telebehavioral Health Institute

JULY 10, 2023

If I practice telehealth across state lines, will my Medicare clients be required to travel to see me if I seek reimbursement for my services? While it is true that an in-person visit requirement has been put on the books by HR 2617 , the requirement is scheduled to start almost two years from now, on January 1, 2025.

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Telehealth Telemedicine Nursing Public Health 52

Telebehavioral Health Institute

JULY 11, 2023

If I practice telehealth across state lines, will my Medicare clients be required to travel to see me if I seek reimbursement for my services? While it is true that an in-person visit requirement has been put on the books by HR 2617 , the requirement is scheduled to start almost two years from now, on January 1, 2025.

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Telehealth Telemedicine Nursing Public Health 40