Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

The funds will support the company’s launch of virtual primary care services in California, Texas, and Washington in 2022, introducing an improved and long overdue healthcare experience for Latinos built on trust, community, and culture. “We By 2050, they’ll make up more than 30% of the population with 132.8 million people.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 30, 2021

A bipartisan group comprising half of U.S. 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.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 26, 2024

On an April 18 conference call with Optum Everycare CEO Jennifer Phalen, some employees of the company's virtual care division were told that their last date would be in July, according to a news report this week. of medical claims since use skyrocketed during the pandemic.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 6, 2023

$140 million in funding raised since November 2020 Wellvana Health announced today that it has closed an $84 million capital raise to drive innovation in value-based care enablement for independent primary care physicians, specialists, and health systems.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 26, 2022

New data released by Medical Group Management Association ( MGMA ) shows that revenue from value-based contracts was only 5.5% in primary care, and 14.7% Value-Based Care. The report from MGMA also found: 49% of medical groups reported an increase in no-show rates since 2021. in surgical specialties, 6.7%

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 10, 2022

with a client group in the past several months has had a line item on the agenda to brainstorm the impact and opportunity of care-at-home, hospital-to-home, or Care Everywhere. Virtually every closed-door meeting I have had in the U.S. Why, that’s just some months away from “now.”

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Digital Health Wire

AUGUST 28, 2023

CMS just released the Medicare Shared Savings Program results for 2022, and the report managed to drum up some serious debate on the effectiveness of MSSP despite last year’s record performance. MSSP saved Medicare $1.8B 140 per high-revenue ACO), underscoring the importance of primary care to the overall program.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 8, 2021

The medical group for Walmart Health has filed paperwork to do business in more than a dozen more states – and a spokesperson told Insider that the moves are not related to physical clinics. Instead, the preparation regards the retail giant's pending acquisition of telehealth vendor MeMD earlier this year. ON THE RECORD.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 7, 2021

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Health Populi

APRIL 16, 2024

Presidential elections to that point, and that the last retiring Baby Boomer enrolls in Medicare that year. Let’s take a walk with “Quincy” through each of the four worlds to see how their health care experience might play out across the key driving forces. Clinicians partner with patients, often in teams and group-based care.

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Digital Health Wire

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Walgreens-backed VillageMD locked in the acquisition of Summit for the cool sum of $8.9B, immediately establishing it as one of the largest primary care providers in the country. Capturing that extra revenue probably doesn’t hurt either. The transaction was made possible through a $3.5B The Takeaway.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 27, 2022

This latest award is a $2 million grant that will allow our applied researchers to establish a patient safety learning laboratory over a four-year funding period, applying a cross-disciplinary, human factors and systems engineering approach to connected care enhancements. Since health systems across the U.S.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 10, 2023

The Connecticut Children's Care Network, with 37 independent pediatric practices and more than 200 pediatric primary care providers in Connecticut and Massachusetts, has a mission to improve the quality of care and health outcomes for infants, children and adolescents.

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Digital Health Global

JANUARY 30, 2024

These push notifications trigger timely care coordination that help reduce avoidable hospital readmissions, improve patient outcomes, and lower overall healthcare costs. In addition, California primary care providers, specialists, and clinics can continue to join Manifest MedEx’s broader network for free to receive ADT notifications.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

Medicare Advantage costs are 12% lower than similar beneficiaries covered under fee-for-service Medicare, according to research from Inovalon and Harvard Medical School. When digital services are available, they’re often disconnected from primary care. HCPLAN also added the advocacy group Accountable for Health.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

During the late Delta into Omicron phase, food insecurity has “soared higher” across all income groups especially as wage growth was not keeping up with food price inflation in the new year. Food security challenged U.S. families during the first year of the pandemic. ” And, while the share of uninsured U.S.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Doximity’s second report on telemedicine explores both physicians’ and patients’ views on virtual care, finding most doctors and health consumers on the same page of virtual care adoption. For the physicians’ profile, Doximity examined 180,000 doctors’ who billed Medicare for telemedicine claims between January 2020 and June 2021.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

The American Telemedicine Association was among several groups this week that submitted comments to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services regarding the 2021 Physician Fee Schedule proposed rule. WHY IT MATTERS.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 24, 2020

One-half of doctors plan to increase their use of telemedicine in the next 12 months, the survey learned, across both primary care and specialty practices. Four in five large employers believe virtual health will play a significant role in how care is delivered int he future, up from 64% in 2019 and 52% in 2018.

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Digital Health Wire

DECEMBER 4, 2022

UpStream provides primary care physicians operating under full-risk, value-based arrangements with a suite of solutions designed to help manage complex populations such as seniors on Medicare.

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Henry Kotula

MAY 9, 2020

For 50 years, the group has been seeing families like Kelli Rutledge’s. The group’s four doctors and two nurse practitioners quickly adapted to the coronavirus pandemic, sharply cutting back clinic hours and switching to virtual visits to keep patients and staff safe. Autumn Road in Little Rock, Ark.,

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 29, 2022

Including how you deliver primary and multi-specialty care, and how you work with payers and employers. We are a modern, data-driven medical group offering high-touch, multi-specialty, longitudinal care to diverse and complex patients – on the phone, in the home and in communities across all 50 states.

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David Chou

MAY 16, 2022

Heritage Provider Network Inc (HPN) is finally moving forward with a potential sale that could value the private medical group at more than $7 billion. This move comes as healthcare providers are under increasing pressure to value-based care and merge or acquit to remain competitive.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 14, 2024

The American Telehealth Association announced its policy priorities for 2024 ; they include making Medicare telehealth flexibilities permanent before the end of the year and removing the in-person requirement for the remote prescribing of controlled substances. competition for Black and Hispanic innovators.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

JUNE 20, 2023

As you read about them below, you will undoubtedly see the bigger picture – how they are positioning telehealth and telemedicine reimbursement to steadily become a cornerstone of advancing 21st-century healthcare for US citizens, starting with additional Medicare revisions. The following article briefly outlines both bills.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Virtual care may be popular among patients, but if providers can't get paid for their services, it's unlikely they'll be able to continue to provide them. " "If Medicare says you have to cover something – that's gonna be harder" for private payers not to cover it, Selesnick said.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

JUNE 8, 2022

DrKumo was awarded a contract by ProHealth Partners, a Medical Group with more than 200 physicians, to provide Remote Patient Monitoring services to patients. About ProHealth Partners Medical Group. BUENA PARK, CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES, June 8, 2022 – DrKumo Inc., Boullon, CEO of Argus Medical Management, LLC., Twitter: [link].

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 6, 2021

"Telemedicine has the potential to be leveraged to increase access to care among patient groups that may have traditionally faced barriers to in-person care," wrote researchers. It found that older patients, Asian people, and non-English-speaking individuals had lower rates of completed telemedicine visits.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

JUNE 20, 2023

As you read about them below, you will undoubtedly see the bigger picture – how they are positioning telehealth and telemedicine reimbursement to steadily become a cornerstone of advancing 21st-century healthcare for US citizens, starting with additional Medicare revisions. The following article briefly outlines both bills.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 23, 2021

" The group plans to lobby policymakers to broaden coverage for care services in the home – including extension and expansion of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services' Hospital Without Walls provisions – advocate for bundled-payment models, home-based care and more.

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Health Populi

MAY 15, 2018

Health Populi’s Hot Points: The second graphic includes two sets of eight maps of the United States, one showing trends of uninsured Americans by state, and the lower group proportion of people who avoided healthcare due to costs. 1 million fewer Medicare enrollees would receive a high-risk prescription drug.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 2, 2021

Mahoney said the restrictions inadvertently create a "donut hole" for Medicare Fee for Service patients, allowing the health system to offer care to everyone but them. Purchaser Business Group on Health president and CEO Elizabeth Mitchell argued that information siloing would actually make things harder for clinicians.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Sarah Carroll, Senior Vice President, Center for Care Transformation at AVIA Health Medicaid and Medicare have become one of the biggest quiet crises in health systems today. Healthcare organizations are trying their best to keep up but need to quickly work with cybersecurity groups to keep their data safe.

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BHM Healthcare Solutions

APRIL 16, 2019

As part of its effort to shift more of its business towards value-based care arrangements, Louisville-based insurer Humana has launched a national Oncology Model of Care program meant to drive better treatment of cancer patients across the country.

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Digital Health Global

DECEMBER 12, 2023

The system is West Central Florida’s largest provider of behavioral health and pediatric services and its provider group, BayCare Medical Group, is one of the largest in the region. Parkview Health includes 13 hospitals and an extensive network of primary care and specialty care physicians.

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Digital Health Global

JULY 31, 2023

Through its team of expert clinically-licensed navigators, Kandu offers extensive tools and resources for optimized stroke recovery, as well as remote community support groups and an easy-to-use app. Despite these potential barriers to care, 90% of Kandu enrollees had a neurology follow-up within 90 days. J Stroke Cerebrovasc Dis.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 24, 2020

"Their ruling, which indicated that these services would be reimbursed on par with traditional office visits, was absolutely key in helping, not only our organization, but also all healthcare organizations, to quickly implement workflows to be able to deliver care using [telehealth] technology," he said.

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