Telebehavioral Health Institute

JANUARY 12, 2023

In January 2023, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) rolled out a new telehealth “indicator” to make information about Medicare telehealth providers on publically-available clinician profile pages more readily available. Medicare Telemedicine Snapshot Data File. 2021 (2021).

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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.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

JUNE 20, 2023

Since 2011, I have been writing the Telehealth.org blog to inform behavioral health professionals of telehealth advocacy to support the permanent approval of telehealth and telemedicine reimbursement at state and federal levels. It also outlines how you can help to ensure the passage of these crucial bills.

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Continue Education Journal

JUNE 12, 2019

Telehealth and Telemedicine Definition. We often hear telehealth and telemedicine used interchangeably, so let’s set the record straight – telehealth is the umbrella term that refers to medical services that healthcare practitioners provide to patients from a distance.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 20, 2023

A bipartisan group of legislators has reintroduced the Creating Opportunities Now for Necessary and Effective Care Technologies for Health Act – first introduced in 2016 – to expand opportunities and coverage for telehealth through Medicare. Remove unnecessary in-person visit requirements for telemental health services.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 2, 2021

It's become common knowledge, at this point, that the flexibilities enabled by the federal government at the start of the COVID-19 public health emergency prompted an atmospheric jump in telehealth use. in his opening remarks for a panel at the American Telemedicine Association's annual conference and expo this month.

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Health Populi

MAY 17, 2022

The report examines three areas of digital health adoption: Live video telemedicine. Digital health tracking. We all know the mantra that our ZIP code impacts our health and well-being more than our genetic code. Women have reached digital health use parity with men overall, Rock Health noted in this year’s data.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

JUNE 20, 2023

Since 2011, I have been writing the Telehealth.org blog to inform behavioral health professionals of telehealth advocacy to support the permanent approval of telehealth and telemedicine reimbursement at state and federal levels. It also outlines how you can help to ensure the passage of these crucial bills.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 27, 2021

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." " WHY IT MATTERS.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 30, 2020

"Much of this transformation is dependent on temporary flexibilities extended to health systems and providers that are limited to the duration of the COVID-19 public health emergency declaration," the letter read. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., Meanwhile, U.S. Butterfield, D-N.C., and Glenn Thompson, R-Pa.,

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Clear Arch Health

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

2023 Public Health Emergency Update: On January 30, 2023, the Biden Administration announced plans to officially bring the public health emergency (PHE) to an end by May 11, 2023 in response to current COVID-19 trends. There is even a new Behavioral Health Integration code: G0323.

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Enzyme Health

JUNE 19, 2019

Applying for telemedicine jobs and want to stand out? This quick telehealth glossary covers the basic terminology telemedicine clinicians should know. ATA : ATA stands for the American Telemedicine Association and is the prominent professional telemedicine organization in the United States.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

More than 85% of the patients served by Temple are covered by government programs, including Medicare and Medicaid. Patients dually eligible for both Medicare and Medicaid make up roughly half of the Medicare inpatient base. More than 40% of total inpatient cases include a behavioral health diagnosis. MARKETPLACE.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 18, 2022

The telemedicine program of the Charlottesville-based University of Virginia Health System was established in 1995 to enhance timely patient access to healthcare services, particularly for patients in rural regions of the Commonwealth of Virginia. "In 2019, UVA Health created a multi-stakeholder strategic plan for telemedicine."

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Health Populi

MARCH 12, 2020

The coronavirus spawned another kind of gift to China and the nation’s health citizens: telemedicine, the essay explains. COVID-19 accelerated telemedicine adoption, the story goes, being accessed mainstream through major regions of China. What can we expect to hear relevant to the public health challenge?

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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. Depending on the trajectory of the U.S.

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GlobalMed

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

But what isn’t as well known is how telemedicine is helping patients manage their condition – and even saving their lives in the COVID-19 pandemic. Marrero , director of the University of Arizona Health Sciences Center for Border Health Disparities in Tucson, says, “Diabetes may be the most serious public health crisis of our time.”

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Clear Arch Health

APRIL 22, 2024

From reorienting to a more value-based care approach (propelled by remote patient monitoring and similar forms of telehealth/telemedicine), to embracing artificial intelligence (AI) with all its implications and promises for facilitating efficient and reliable patient care, innovations are rampant.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General issued a data brief this month aimed at providing insight into state evaluations and oversight of tele-behavioral services. In response to COVID-19, patients have regularly turned to telemedicine for behavioral health needs. WHY IT MATTERS. ON THE RECORD.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 28, 2023

Stephen Sofoul, SVP, Data & Decision Science Services at MultiPlan A critical challenge lies in the shortage of experienced financial analysts or data analysts capable of effectively analyzing the wealth of information that the healthcare industry holds. Finally, the current state of tech needs to be updated.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Sun River Health was among the first organizations to receive funding under the Federal Communications Commission COVID-19 Telehealth Program. Prior to implementing the telemedicine technology supported by the FCC program funds, Sun River Health had relatively limited and targeted capacity to support remote visits. THE PROBLEM.

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Health Populi

MARCH 11, 2021

[Note: I may be biased as a University of Michigan graduate of both the School of Public Health and Rackham School of Graduate Studies in Economics]. health care, patient assistance programs, Medicare Advantage plans, and the bundling of proven high-value preventive services into the Affordable Care Act. .”

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 29, 2022

"Telehealth accounted for a large share of ambulatory encounters at the peak of the pandemic and remained prevalent after infection rates subsided," said researchers in the study, which was funded in part by the American Telemedicine Association. Many previous large studies of telehealth use have relied on Medicare data.

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Health Populi

MARCH 9, 2022

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. “This kind of patient self-reported data makes the leap to over-utilization way too simplistic,” Drobac told Modern Healthcare. This week, the U.S.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 23, 2020

said more data is also needed – including from providers – about the costs of telehealth. " American Telemedicine Association CEO Ann Mond Johnson called the originating and geographic site requirements, which have historically restricted eligible telehealth areas for reimbursement, "arbitrary barriers.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

health care and that volumes turned downward in 2020. Deloitte’s actuaries actually developed this analysis using data from before the coronavirus pandemic. A new health economy bringing about the “end of the general hospital as we know it,” a dramatic change in health care financing in the U.S.,

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

The funding for this coordination of these social determinants of health aims to break down siloed efforts and better align care and social service providers – ideally enabling better health outcomes, reducing costs and protecting vulnerable populations.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

DECEMBER 22, 2022

First, the Public Health Emergency (PHE) is likely to be extended for three months in January, bringing today’s best predictions for the end of the PHE to April 2023. Key Medicare Behavioral Telehealth Regulations. 2617 , includes the omnibus’ Mental Health Access Improvement Act (S.

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Connected Health Initiative

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Millions of Americans turned to live audio and video visits with healthcare providers during the COVID-19 pandemic, and Congress needs to make decisions that will permanently affect how Americans, in particular Medicare patients, may access these telehealth services on a permanent basis.

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Health Populi

JUNE 24, 2021

In the larger public and population health context, on the patient side, we can expect the burden of disease beyond COVID to increase due to postponed care and treatment backlogs. 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.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

JULY 21, 2022

The ONDCP concludes that healthcare providers must continue prescribing controlled substances via telemedicine, especially for the vulnerable group of people with SUD. During the Public Health Emergency (PHE), the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) expanded reimbursement for telehealth access as a temporary measure.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 7, 2023

News CMS has opened the Hardship Exception application period for eligible hospitals and critical access hospitals (CAHs) that participated in the Medicare Promoting Interoperability Program in 2022. The analysis also found that Z-codes are most frequently used in behavioral health and acute care settings.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Given the official ambiguity about the official termination of the COVID-related Public Health Emergency (PHE ), it may be time to discuss using the “FQ” telephone CPT code and available resources for provider groups and individuals delivering telephone-based services.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Specifically, what if the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) rescinds the emergency orders it has put in place during the COVID-19 pandemic? The American Telemedicine Association maintains a US bills related to telemedicine and their status. A boon for behavioral health. What if the trumpet shall sound?

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GlobalMed

JUNE 16, 2021

At the same time, both PCPs and the patients who need them face many challenges – and now both are finding that telemedicine may be the answer. Medicare has also dramatically loosened its restrictions on telehealth coverage. Finally, telemedicine helps PCPs build a foundation for an increasingly technological healthcare future.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 17, 2020

advocated for two particular policy changes to be made permanent: the originating site rule, allowing physicians to be reimbursed for telehealth appointments wherever a patient is located, including a patient's home, and the expansion of Medicare- and Medicaid-reimbursable telehealth services. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., Mike Braun, R-Ind.,

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Health Populi

JANUARY 9, 2020

For overall healthcare reform, the plurality of Americans prefer improving the current system (that is, building on the Affordable Care Act) versus repealing and replacing the ACA or adopting a Medicare for All plan. The BPC/Morning Consult poll tells us that there’s a demand side for dealing with health care costs.

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