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Former CMS chief of staff previews 4 areas of value-based care in 2022

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Before the pandemic, telehealth services in fee-for-service Medicare were restricted mostly to rural areas in which patients would travel to a healthcare facility, called an originating site, to receive care from a provider who also was in a healthcare facility, called a distant site.

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Ohio Living achieves low readmission rates with telehealth

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The non-profit also recently expanded its telehealth services through a partnership with Northwest Ohio Accountable Care Organization, and Ohio Living claimed 80 percent of patients enrolled would recommend the program to a family member or friend. "Patient engagement is critical to the management of chronic conditions.

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Telehealth Reimbursement: End-of-Pandemic Emergency Update

Telebehavioral Health Institute

Medicare and Telehealth Reimbursement for many audio and video behavioral telehealth services has been permanently approved and will extend beyond the PHE without interruption for Medicare beneficiaries. They can receive care from their homes rather than traveling to a health care facility.

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Deaconess Health RPM program reduces cost of care by $7.4 million

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The Evansville, Indiana-based health system – which includes 11 hospitals with more than 900 total beds, 96 locations, its own accountable care organization, and a large 538-provider multispecialty group – serves patients in 26 mostly rural counties in Southwestern Indiana, Southeastern Illinois and Western Kentucky.

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Video: Farzad Mostashari on patient engagement, ‘physician ACOs’

Meaningful HIT News

It turns out, Masters and Salber had just pulled Mostashari aside to do an interview on video, but they didn’t have anyone to interview him on camera, so they asked me right there on the spot to be the interviewer. Farzad Mostashari hanging around Gregg Masters and Dr. Pat Salber of Health Innovation Media. Here is the result.

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Sun River Health shifts 67% of its visits to telehealth

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

"The health center predominantly used video-based telemedicine technology to support site-to-site visits within the Sun River network, or to provide access to contracted specialty services such as dermatology." allowed two-way video visits to be scheduled quickly and without undue demands on patients."

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Health IT execs offer thoughts on the big issues of 2021

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

One of the biggest storylines since the early days of the pandemic, of course, was telehealth – finally capitalizing on its potential as it was thrust into the spotlight as a necessary modality of care delivery. One exec says the basic concept of the doc-patient video visit is not enough. Now the question is, what's next ?

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