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2024 Brings New Medicare Billing Opportunities for FQHCs and RHCs with RPM and RTM Services

DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

Beginning January 1, 2024, a significant change in Medicare billing practices greatly impacted Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs) and Rural Health Clinics (RHCs). For the first time, these centers can bill Medicare separately for Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) and Remote Therapeutic Monitoring (RTM) services.

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Bonus Features – January 14, 2024 – Epic Research shows telehealth results in more follow-up visits that in-office care, Elevance Health to offer smartphones to qualified Medicaid beneficiaries, plus 21 more stories

Healthcare IT Today

This article will be a weekly roundup of interesting stories, product announcements, new hires, partnerships, research studies, awards, sales, and more. News and Studies Follow-up rates for telehealth and in-office visits have remained consistent since 2020 , according to analysis from Epic Research.

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Five Aging and Health Technology Blog Posts from September 2020

Aging in Place Technology Watch

Here are five other posts: Will telehealth help the oldest adults during Covid-19? What happens when people avoid health-related in-person care? Family concerns about health and Covid-19 also continue to delay or prevent some move-ins to senior living communities. But is telehealth viable for the oldest?

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Hospital at Home: Prospects and Challenges, and Learnings from Best Buy Health

Health Populi

As the authors of the HaH article assert, “at a societal level, HaH could help avoid billions in capital costs to build more brick-and-mortar hospitals,” I return to Roemer’s Law learned in graduate school that, in a volume-based payment system, “A built bed is a filled bed is a billed bed.”

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Aging and Health Technology Blog Posts from September 2020

Aging in Place Technology Watch

Finally, a new report details the access limitations and disparate costs for high speed Internet across the US. Here are five other posts: Will telehealth help the oldest adults during Covid-19? What happens when people avoid health-related in-person care? But is telehealth viable for the oldest? How do I know this?

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Bonus Features, HLTH Edition – October 11, 2023 – Announcements from Best Buy, General Catalyst, Google Cloud, Microsoft, Walgreens, and more

Healthcare IT Today

This article will be a roundup of interesting stories, product announcements, partnerships, research studies, company launches, and more from the annual conference. Walgreens also announced plans to launch telehealth visits later this month, according to Healthcare Dive.

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Is Telehealth the Key to Changing the Opioid Crisis?

GlobalMed

Just as telehealth can reach underserved patients treating other conditions, it can give addicts new options in multiple ways: When patients overdose or experience withdrawal symptoms, local providers can immediately connect with experienced specialists – something especially useful in prisons, university campuses, rural areas and other locales.