South Central Telehealth Resource Center

MARCH 6, 2018

Medicare and Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) Reimbursement. Effective January 1, 2018, Medicare began reimbursing providers for RPM services billed under CPT code 99091. The Medicare website explains that the change was made to reduce the administrative burden for practitioners. Go to the Medicare Telehealth Services section.

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Digital Health Today

APRIL 25, 2019

When CMS unveiled the first standalone reimbursement for Remote Patient Monitoring (“RPM”) by “unbundling” CPT Code 99091 in the 2018 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule , it opened the door to the widespread use of RPM services for patients and promised there was more to come. Meet our Premier Partners. Want to Partner with Us? Find Out How!

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 20, 2023

A patient can speak to a nurse immediately—as opposed to calling a PCP, who might take hours or even days to return a call—and determine whether a problem can be solved at home, urgent care, or the emergency room. Of course, selecting patients along any sort of criteria is controversial.)

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AMD Telemedicine

JANUARY 6, 2022

Healthcare organizations around the world are faced with a lot of uncertainty right now and have to make pretty major decisions about their course of action to survive in the new hybrid model of healthcare delivery. Why the Benefits Outweigh the Initial Cost of Implementing Telehealth. Telehealth reimbursement is now possible.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 19, 2022

Murthy’s warning to the industry was that unless significant steps are taken to reduce the crisis of stress, exhaustion and burnout among physicians, nurses and other clinicians, the nation’s health will suffer through worsening of access to care and quality of care due to lack of resources.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 25, 2019

" None of that is a coincidence, of course. Whether deployed as an affordable means of after-hours medical coverage at skilled nursing facilities, or as intuitive voice activated home tools to help with remote monitoring and distance-based consults, telehealth is reaching maturation at just the moment it's needed most.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Of course, the staff of a clinic or hospital don’t go around looking for apartments the way they actively look for a long-term care facility. For instance, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has 50 data sets pointing to available help; states and the Department of Veterans Affairs has other data sets. and the world.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 19, 2024

Programs of All-inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE), a Medicare and Medicaid program designed for individuals aged 55 and above requiring nursing-home-level care, embraced the benefits of providing care at home prior to the pandemic, enabling this frail population to remain within their familiar home environments and communities.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MAY 26, 2022

Home care companies, senior living companies, skilled nursing facilities are all desperate for workers to address this increasingly overwhelming market. Telehealth vs. in-person: the Covid-19 public health emergency declaration to reimburse doctors for providing telehealth services for Medicare recipients has been repeatedly renewed.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MAY 27, 2020

The spike has been attributed to a) the declaration of a state of emergency in March; b) introduction of Medicare/Medicaid coverage matching in-person visits; and c) encouragement from hospitals and medical practitioners. . Of course, ramping up access to technology using what’s available today is a good start.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

Through the UVA Center for Telehealth, the organization will also develop training courses for healthcare providers that help them identify and treat chronic diseases. Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar, as Medicare now covers a broad range of virtual care models,” Rehuban continued.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 16, 2022

million job openings for care aides alone – let alone nurses, physical therapists, and other clinical practitioners. On the revenue side, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) have indicated plans to cut reimbursements for home-based healthcare services by 4.2% First, let’s understand the magnitude of the challenge.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

In their September, 2020 Aging in Place report, the authors note that demographics, regulatory and policy changes (aka reimbursement via Medicare Advantage plans), and Covid-19’s boosted use of digital health combine to make this a pivotal point. Of course, in the not-cited part of that survey, only 59% expected to be able to do so.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

JULY 10, 2023

If I practice telehealth across state lines, will my Medicare clients be required to travel to see me if I seek reimbursement for my services? The nurse compact, the oldest of all, is one where holding a license in one compact-approved state allows an approved clinician to work in another nurse compact state.

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Society for Participatory Medicine

APRIL 9, 2020

Healthcare informatics provides electronic access to medical records for patients, doctors, nurses, hospital administrators, insurance companies and health information technicians. First, many of our courses that cover the management of health information address interoperability at some level.

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Henry Kotula

MARCH 19, 2020

Instead, a neurologist would assess the patient on a mobile screen from far away, with local nursing staff and doctors aiding him or her. Physical exams are the bedrock of how doctors and nurses assess patients. On Tuesday, Medicare announced that it will greatly expand coverage for telemedicine visits, previously sharply restricted.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 30, 2023

Medicare and other payers will require that evidence, both for tracking outcomes data, as well as preventing misuse of the new reimbursement codes. As data flows back to providers, they can be alerted if the patient is off course or reports pain or other symptoms that need attention.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

JULY 11, 2023

If I practice telehealth across state lines, will my Medicare clients be required to travel to see me if I seek reimbursement for my services? The nurse compact, the oldest of all, is one where holding a license in one compact-approved state allows an approved clinician to work in another nurse compact state.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 2, 2023

government introduced the meaningful use program as part of the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act in 2009, LTPAC organizations – notably nursing homes – and the vulnerable patients they serve have been left behind. Since the U.S.

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Connected Health Initiative

JUNE 24, 2020

In just a few short months, we made more progress in opening up Medicare and Medicaid to telehealth visits, remote patient monitoring (RPM) tools, and other connected health solutions than in the previous decade. Previously, Medicare would only pay for real time telehealth visits conducted using both live voice and video.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

MARCH 29, 2023

If I practice telehealth across state lines, will my Medicare clients be required to travel to see me if I seek reimbursement for my services? The nurse compact, the oldest of all, is one where holding a license in one compact-approved state allows an approved clinician to work in another nurse compact state.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

In their September, 2020 Aging in Place report, the authors note that demographics, regulatory and policy changes (aka reimbursement via Medicare Advantage plans), and Covid-19’s boosted use of digital health combine to make this a pivotal point. Of course, in the not-cited part of that survey, only 59% expected to be able to do so.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 2, 2023

healthcare system faces an estimated national deficit of more than 900K registered nurses by the end of the decade. Hospital CEOs agree that workforce challenges are the biggest issue they face, with 90% saying nursing shortages are the most pressing – a trend driven by the 4.7M healthcare workers retiring by 2030.

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Lloyd Price

JUNE 8, 2019

My doctor’s nurse is far better equipped to answer a question about my ongoing health problem than someone at a call center reading from a script. Of course, companies like those mentioned are expecting to be reimbursed for the remote monitoring and virtual advice they provide.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 10, 2019

And, of course, artificial intelligence and machine learning, even at this early stage of their development, are setting the stage for major changes in the ways healthcare professionals do their work, whether they're frontline clinicians or back-office staff. People worry now about nursing retirements, etc.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Medicare Advantage programs are vaunting their support for “wellness,” and you see wellness campaigns at pharmacies, employers, and elsewhere. I’m sure that doctors and nurse practitioners truly care for the overall happiness and wellbeing of their patients. Do these programs give us what we seek?

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HIStalk Weekender

OCTOBER 26, 2018

For people over 65 on Medicare, we’re Canada. The US Military Academy uses a robot to co-teach an ethics philosophy course, feeding Bina48 data about wars and philosophy as well as an instructor’s lesson plan to allow it (her?) Contribute regularly as a provider CIO, IT director, or informatics nurse (anonymous or not).

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 22, 2023

The following is a guest article by Amy Hester, PhD, RN, BC, FAAN, Chairwoman and CEO at HD Nursing The growing use of artificial intelligence (AI) across a number of industries, particularly in healthcare, has shown both great promise as well as cause for alarm. She is an adjunct faculty at UAMS College of Nursing.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Each interviewee was asked for thoughts in the context of the categories suggested by ChatGPT and any other categories that will improve the work processes for those in the care-related industries – home care, home healthcare, senior living care (including nursing homes), and hospital discharge processes to any of those.

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Lloyd Price

OCTOBER 16, 2018

It may be too early to start imagining a world where health care is truly owned by Big Tech — you order prescription drugs with your Amazon Prime account, see a nurse at the Apple Clinic, get your benefits statements from Google, and call an Uber instead of an ambulance when you need to go to the hospital. But something is happening here.

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Lloyd Price

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

And as part of its efforts to target the aging infirm, the company began offering Prime discounts to Medicare recipients. Data analysis will of course drive how Haven steers patients toward lower-cost-better-outcome health professionals. JPMorgan Chase has also invested in on-site healthcare.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 13, 2022

As violence towards nurses and physicians increases, this will become a more important use-case for this technology. 00:02:00] RTLS provides you with that location visibility of critical assets, – tools or medical devices or resources like nurses, staff members, – and it lets you find them in a much faster manner.

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Henry Kotula

JANUARY 24, 2018

Doctors and nurses leave and buildings are shuttered, maybe demolished. In 2015, the most recent year of data, these service reductions accounted for nearly half of the hospital closures recorded around the country, according to the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission. (By None has caused Cleveland Clinic to reverse course.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Another study published in 2021 analyzed the geographic distribution of neurologists actively billing in Medicare and compared this to the geographic distribution of Medicare beneficiaries with neurologic disease. Second, there is a mismatch between where neurologists practice and where people with neurologic conditions live.

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Henry Kotula

JULY 28, 2023

The process for eligibility renewals will continue to play out over the course of the next year since states have until mid-2024 to update all Medicaid enrollees’ eligibility status. They include a report that says the US could see a deficit of 200,000 to 450,000 registered nurses by 2025.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 16, 2023

The Inpatient Quality Reporting (IQR) program, used by Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to rate hospitals, now contain two measures of SDoH. This paper, dated August 2020, pointed out that this data could help prioritize efforts at COVID-19 testing and contact tracing—today, of course, we would add vaccinations.

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Henry Kotula

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

It has nurses and doctors and a cafeteria, and the staff spend their days looking after the very sick?checking The nurses wear scrubs, but the scrubs are very, very clean. It uses technology to sense changes in hospitalized patients so subtle that bedside nurses often haven’t picked up on them. The patients are elsewhere.

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