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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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ViVE24: Healthcare Goes Hollywood

Xealth

Being one of the first major healthcare conferences in Los Angeles in a while, we spent the better part of last week at ViVE, February 25-28, an event where “digital health executives go to do business.” From investors to health systems, the wallets are starting to gently, ease open, but with a highly cautious approach.

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These are the compliance issues providers should be preparing for, post-PHE

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Additionally, several telehealth flexibilities (that generally expand Medicare coverage for telehealth services) have been extended 151 days (about five months) beyond the termination of the HHS PHE. If Medicare coverage requirements for telehealth services (e.g., Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS publication. PTs, OTs, and SLPs).

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3 Ways Consumers are Putting the Pressure on Health Plans

Healthcare IT Today

The following is a guest article by Mike Pattwell, Principal Business Advisor, Value Based Care at Edifecs Consumers are at the heart of healthcare — their fears are forcing healthcare innovators to shift priorities to deliver consumer-centric digital health offerings.

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COVID-19 presents a new chance to make telehealth accessible to the underserved

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

"Regrettably, minority groups are being left behind by the telehealth revolution," said David Smith, executive director for the Medicaid Transformation Project, in an interview with Healthcare IT News. Since the pandemic began its spread across the U.S. this spring, Smith said, MTP has expanded its focus.

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Healthcare Fragmentation Isn’t So Bad, If It Comes with Better Outcomes

Healthcare IT Today

Healthcare providers maintain different systems than payers, as do government entities like Medicare and Medicaid. While data fragmentation brings significant challenges, the data generated in our healthcare system is one of the most valuable assets to the healthcare industry to drive affordable, accessible and high-quality healthcare.

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Power to the People: David Goldsmith of WEGO Health — Harlow on Healthcare

Health Blawg

It is always a pleasure to speak with David Goldsmith ( @dsgold ), Chief Strategy Officer at WEGO Health. I spoke with David as part of my ongoing series of fireside chats with healthcare innovation leaders – Harlow on Healthcare , on HealthcareNOW Radio. I, for one, hope that we don’t have to wait five years.