Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Medicare Advantage programs are vaunting their support for “wellness,” and you see wellness campaigns at pharmacies, employers, and elsewhere. Process indicators are the basis of the Medicare’s Star ratings , probably the most important measures clinicians pay attention to. Do these programs give us what we seek?

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Medicare Accountable Care Healthcare IT EHR 103

American Well

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

This is particularly true for health systems that have become Accountable Care Organizations (ACO) or that are in the process of becoming an ACO. For these institutions, the mandates to improve patient care and reduce medical costs go hand in hand. Telehealth could save as much as $6 billion annually in U.S. healthcare costs.”.

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Telehealth Nursing Accountable Care Leadership 48

CMS.gov

MAY 31, 2018

Remarkably, the submission rates for Accountable Care Organizations and clinicians in rural practices were at 98 percent and 94 percent, respectively. What makes these numbers most exciting is the concerted efforts by clinicians, professional associations, and many others to ensure high quality care and improved outcomes for patients.

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eHealth Interoperability Accountable Care Leadership 20

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Accountable Care Compliance & Legal Government & Policy Telehealth Workforce Healthcare organizations must urge the Senate to pass critical telehealth legislation, and enact at least a two-year extension of the important PHE-era policies while working toward a permanent solution. We cannot afford to let that happen.

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Public Health Telehealth Connected Health Medicare 127

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

Accountable Care Compliance & Legal Government & Policy Telehealth Workforce Healthcare organizations must urge the Senate to pass critical telehealth legislation, and enact at least a two-year extension of the important PHE-era policies while working toward a permanent solution. We cannot afford to let that happen.

Public Health 115

Public Health Telehealth Connected Health Medicare 115

Henry Kotula

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

The most public example of health insurers cutting costs over the past year was Anthem’s policies to not pay for unnecessary emergency department visits or imaging services at hospitals. Anthem’s policies looked to nudge patients to less costly outpatient facilities, including urgent care centers and freestanding imaging centers.

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Medicare Accountable Care Telemedicine Patient Experience 32

LinkousThink

DECEMBER 28, 2009

For example, the health reform bills include plans to test out “independence at home,” “accountable-care organizations” and “care coordination” approaches. This approach holds a lot of potential for telemedicine. In fact, it might accelerate what we have been trying to achieve. But the real work is just starting.

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Telemedicine Accountable Care Leadership Medicare 28

Henry Kotula

AUGUST 5, 2020

Climate change is a powerful example. The second, extended shock has been a decrease in needed but not necessary care. Initially, many patients delayed seeking necessary care because of perceived infection risk. For example, Emergency Department visits declined 42% during the early phase of the pandemic.

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Primary Care Public Health Telemedicine Accountable Care 32

Docnotes

JANUARY 30, 2022

Yet regional governments – county departments of health for example – lack the funding, staffing, and experience managing matters that the HERO is imagined to curate. For example, one MCO might invest in food, and another in housing. More on what I think will work North of Yonkers after we consider the SDHN….

Primary Care 52

Primary Care Telehealth HIE Public Health 52

CMS.gov

MARCH 7, 2013

Stage 2 of the Medicare and Medicaid Electronic Health Record (EHR) Incentive Programs. How will this next phase improve health care and reduce the burden on providers? Accountable Care Organizations can also report quality measures from their EHRs to meet reporting requirements for participating eligible professionals.

eHealth 32

eHealth EHR Meaningful Use Accountable Care 32

LinkousThink

JULY 10, 2010

Annual petitions to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to expand covered clinical service codes have resulted in adding about 15 services as eligible for reimbursement. For example, fee-for-service programs altogether ignore paying for remote monitoring except for a few cardiac monitoring services.

Telemedicine 28

Telemedicine Medicare Accountable Care mHealth 28

CMS.gov

DECEMBER 21, 2018

Administrator, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Medicare Parts A & B. Pathways to Success,” an Overhaul of Medicare’s ACO Program. Today the Trump Administration announced our overhaul of the program for Accountable Care Organizations, or “ACOs,” in Medicare. Innovation models.

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Medicare Accountable Care Primary Care Telehealth 41