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What facilitated telehealth can do to improve care for high-need groups

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

For example, factors like lower education levels, poor diet, smoking and insufficient exercise may contribute to developing heart disease. In many cases, the same factors that lead to poor health and poor access to care contribute to low use of digital health services.

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Cindy Friend, Caradigm and Population Health – Harlow on Healthcare

Health Blawg

Caradigm is focusing on population health by stratifying patients with multiple chronic conditions, and supporting ACOs in managing their care. PHQ-9’s may be administered by primary care providers), so that the behavioral health data may be integrated into the analytics framework used to manage population health.

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Telehealth Reimbursement: End-of-Pandemic Emergency Update

Telebehavioral Health Institute

Using the example above, if a client moves from state “A” to state “B,” and the provider continues to bill the insurer from state “A” without approval from that insurer, the provider may technically be committing insurance fraud. Medicare Advantage plans may offer additional telehealth benefits.

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Cindy Friend, Caradigm and Population Health – Harlow on Healthcare

Health Blawg

Caradigm is focusing on population health by stratifying patients with multiple chronic conditions, and supporting ACOs in managing their care. PHQ-9’s may be administered by primary care providers), so that the behavioral health data may be integrated into the analytics framework used to manage population health.

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Sun River Health shifts 67% of its visits to telehealth

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Some operational kinks needed to be worked out, however, but our ability to connect patients to their primary care providers immediately reduced anxiety and fear associated with the pandemic." "Notably, our persistently mentally ill and chronically ill patients were the first to benefit from this service expansion.

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MedPAC members weigh future of telehealth coverage

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

During the public health emergency, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services temporarily expanded that coverage – for example, allowing clinicians to provide services to patients in their homes and in non-rural settings. "A key issue is how to achieve the benefits of telehealth while limiting the risks," said Tabor.

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Cindy Friend, Caradigm and Population Health – Harlow on Healthcare

Health Blawg

Caradigm is focusing on population health by stratifying patients with multiple chronic conditions, and supporting ACOs in managing their care. PHQ-9’s may be administered by primary care providers), so that the behavioral health data may be integrated into the analytics framework used to manage population health.