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. As noted by Telehealth.org, other repercussions concerning licensure and HIPAA-compliance enforcement also will take immediate effect with the end of the PHE. million would be terminated.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 28, 2023

Many organizations are conducting a full analysis of their sites and some have found more than 50 tools that create privacy risks. These activities should be multi-disciplinary, including representatives from the Compliance Department, Information Technology, HIPAA, and Legal.

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BHM Healthcare Solutions

DECEMBER 1, 2022

An analysis by The Leapfrog Group of data across the Hospital Safety Grade’s history suggests improvement in patient safety over time. This release marks the 10th anniversary of the Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grade, which assigns a letter grade to nearly 3,000 U.S. Healthcare-Associated Infections (HAI) Progress Report.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

JULY 11, 2023

This article also serves as a case study for PART-I of our article series, which identifies and explains the leading federal and state laws requiring healthcare language services for practitioners who serve Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries or those who work in federally funded settings.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

FEBRUARY 11, 2023

For example, patients with diabetes may use a glucose meter to regularly check their blood sugar levels, and then securely transmit this data to their healthcare provider for monitoring and analysis. This allows Medicare beneficiaries to receive medical treatment and consultation from the comfort of their own home.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Medicare Part B coverage for RPM services opens up avenues for healthcare professionals to harness physiological data, refine care plans, and minimize denied claims. Any patient covered by Medicare Part B is eligible to enroll in RPM, receiving 80% coverage for the program. Accessibility and Coverage: The good news?

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Health Law Blog | Telehealth

MARCH 20, 2020

To promote the use of telehealth in response to Coronavirus, the federal government took several significant steps this week: Medicare dramatically expanded the telehealth services for which it will pay. HHS suspended HIPAA security rule requirements that may have otherwise limited the technology used for telehealth visits.

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Health Law Blog | Telehealth

MARCH 20, 2020

To promote the use of telehealth in response to Coronavirus, the federal government took several significant steps this week: Medicare dramatically expanded the telehealth services for which it will pay. HHS suspended HIPAA security rule requirements that may have otherwise limited the technology used for telehealth visits.

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HIStalk Weekender

JUNE 29, 2018

While I agree that HIPAA both by design and by misinterpretation can cause harm I don’t think more legislation is going to fix anything. Among them: ambulance routing, allocating doctors by expected demand, medical image analysis, virtual visits, and Internet-only hospitals that could manage patients and sell prescriptions online.

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Henry Kotula

JANUARY 2, 2019

billion in digital health, from patient-facing devices to provider-facing practice management software to payer-facing data analysis services. In 2017 alone, venture capital firms invested more than $11.5 Exhibit 1: Venture Capital Funding For Digital Health Versus US Health Care Spending.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

This analysis helps in predicting disease risks, understanding health outcomes, and tailoring prevention strategies to individual needs. DrKumo’s state-of-the-art, HIPAA-compliant, mobile-enabled technology, powered by an advanced AI/ML engine, revolutionizes the way healthcare providers and patients interact.

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BHM Healthcare Solutions

JULY 20, 2015

The transition to ICD-10 will be mandatory for any organization covered by HIPAA. These two types of surgeries are the most common procedure Medicare beneficiaries receive and the CMS is hopes that by focusing on episodes of care, hospitals and physicians will have incentive to work together to provide better and more efficient care.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 18, 2021

The public health crisis, combined with Medicare Advantage and other payors’ regimes, supported an economic model for the hospital-to-home movement. ” These metrics include respiratory rate, heart rate, and temperature; activity and sleep status; gait analysis and fall detection, along with symptomatic events.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 3, 2023

So, within my Medicare Advantage population for example, I split out patients with diabetes, find out who is due for an annual eye exam and then send them a message to match their communication preferences. Intelligent call centers are comprised of chatbots equipped with natural language processing, speech recognition, and text analysis.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Security and privacy are a top priority for organizations and agencies dealing with telehealth, due to federal regulatory and compliance frameworks such as HIPAA, HITRUST and the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP). Big data, coupled with machine learning, has the power to improve the quality of patient care.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 2, 2020

The moves by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to relax regulations around telehealth have been lauded by providers and patients around the country. Robin Kelly, D-Illinois, introduced a bill yesterday that would mandate a study on the effects of telehealth changes on Medicare and Medicaid during the COVID-19 crisis.

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