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Thinking About Telehealth Through the Lens of Real Estate – Listening to JLL

Health Populi

For those of you focused on serving Medicare or older patients, there are some important findings in the JLL study to add into your scenario planning assumptions. Those often lead to follow-up care, so we may not be seeing any difference between in-person and telehealth for follow up to specialists, etc.,” ” she added.

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CONNECT for Health Act reintroduced, would expand telehealth access

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

senators has reintroduced the Creating Opportunities Now for Necessary and Effective Care Technologies (CONNECT) for Health Act of 2021. The act would expand coverage of Medicare telehealth services and make some COVID-19 telehealth flexibilities permanent, among other provisions. Access for Medicare beneficiaries.

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As 'telehealth cliff' looms, hundreds of healthcare orgs urge Congress to act

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Leading healthcare industry stakeholders on Monday implored top leaders in the House and Senate to help ensure, among other imperatives, that "Medicare beneficiaries [don't] abruptly lose access to nearly all recently expanded coverage of telehealth." This would have a chilling effect on access to care across the entire U.S.

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Telehealth In 2030 – Notes From the Future At #ATA19 with Safavi, Holt, Bathina and Swafford

Health Populi

This quartet of innovative digital health thinkers discussed the pace of adoption for telehealth, moving from the current state to 2030 and working backward from there, asking what conditions would have to change to get us from “here” to telehealth as, well, a healthcare delivery channel norm. First, connected care: one in five U.S.

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Telehealth Visits Can Improve Revenue, But They’re No Cornucopia

Healthcare IT Today

Specifically, what if the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) rescinds the emergency orders it has put in place during the COVID-19 pandemic? But at least one type of value-based care is getting reimbursed: digital monitoring for behavioral care. The change took place in almost a twinkling of an eye.

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How the Latest Pandemic Relief Bill Effects Telehealth

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Telehealth advocates aren’t impressed with the lack of support for connected health services in the latest pandemic relief package. And it eliminates geographic restrictions for the mental health treatment delivered via telehealth , while also allowing patients to be treated in their homes.