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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
JANUARY 11, 2023
The Kaiser Family Foundation recently looked at state trends with regard to expanding access to telehealth-based behavioral care during the pandemic and found that states see telemedicine as a key component of maintaining access to behavioral healthcare for Medicaid enrollees. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS publication. WHY IT MATTERS.
Telebehavioral Health Institute
NOVEMBER 17, 2022
Of all the payors consistently funded to expand telehealth in the immediate future, Medicare stands head and shoulders above many others. On October 8, the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released the final CY 2023 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (PFS) rule. Set to end in January 2023.,
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Healthcare IT Today
JULY 23, 2023
News and Studies The 2024 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Proposed Rule from CMS would continue many of the public health emergency telehealth flexibilities, such as an expanded definition of telehealth practitioners, continued payments to rural health centers and FQHCs, and the expansion of originating sites.
Health Populi
AUGUST 25, 2020
This drove health consumers to virtual care platforms in the first months of the public health crisis — including lots of older people who had never used telemedicine or even a mobile health app.
Continue Education Journal
NOVEMBER 10, 2021
Key considerations for embracing telemedicine post-pandemic: Improved access: Rural communities often have limited access to specialists, making it difficult for these individuals to get the care they need. There is still uncertainty of the fate of other services as the public health emergency ends. Fam Med Community Health.
Healthcare IT Today
APRIL 29, 2024
A Congressional bill would promote behavioral therapy for obesity and extend Medicare coverage for drugs treating obesity. It comes from a convergence of several trends, according to leading public health and medical investigators. Payers have invested enormous amounts of money in decreasing individuals’ body weights.
Health Populi
JUNE 24, 2021
The third chart details some of these points: On the macroeconomic side of the forecast, we see increasing private consumption, higher inflation, less public sector support (e.g., For Medicare Part B programs alone, the drug could consume one-half of the total $57 billion of medicines spending… as much as the U.S. spends on NASA.
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