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Telehealth Reimbursement: End-of-Pandemic Emergency Update

Telebehavioral Health Institute

Access to Telehealth Services Private Health Insurance Coverage for telehealth and other remote care services will vary by state and private insurance plans. The article below clarifies and summarizes the end-of-pandemic reimbursement decisions made by private payers, Medicare, and Medicaid.

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Taming the beast of multistate provider licensure for telemedicine

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The HHS Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation's Office of Health Policy found telehealth use during the initial COVID-19 peak increased from less than 1% of visits to 80%. Telemedicine companies encounter these challenges more frequently than traditional providers.

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Can Telemedicine Increase Health Equity? A Conversation with Antoinette Thomas, Dave Ryan, and Me with the ATA

Health Populi

” Assuring health equity in a post-pandemic world. As we move to “build health care back better” in the U.S. post-pandemic, we laud the fact that the private sector has been playing a greater role filling in gaps left bare by the public sector in health over the past few years.

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How IT leaders are reimagining and repurposing technologies to handle new challenges

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Reimagining everything for remote care. The entire foundation of healthcare is built on in-person care. Everything needs to be reimagined for remote care, said Canino at Johns Hopkins Health Systems. Yesterday, for example, the bus rolled up at 7 a.m. The hospital's current EHR is Cerner Soarian.

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Report: Telemedicine Reimbursement Limitations Cost Millions, ‘Impede Expansion’

care innovations

Better defining the rules of telemedicine reimbursement can allow payors, including government-backed services like CMS, to better realize the potential to reduce operational costs using technology embodied by remote patient management or virtual visits.