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

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

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. Advocates at the American Telemedicine Association's annual conference warned this past week that legislators need to step up.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 6, 2021

A wide-ranging study published this past week in the Journal of the American Medical Association found that older people, women, Black and Latinx individuals, and patients with lower household incomes were less likely to use video for telemedicine care during the early phase of the COVID-19 pandemic. " WHY IT MATTERS.

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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. THE LARGER TREND.

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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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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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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 Today

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

News and Studies The American Telemedicine Association released three tools aimed at addressing disparity and inequity in care : Digital Infrastructure Disparities Score and Map, Economic and Social Value-Added Calculator, and a toolkit including all previously released resources.

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GlobalMed

AUGUST 5, 2019

It’s time to make a decision: do you go to the urgent care clinic a few blocks away? Or do you wait until Monday when you can call your primary care provider (PCP) and then wait a few more days for an appointment? Telemedicine After Hours. Patients want to receive care from the doctor who knows them best – their PCP.

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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

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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American Well

FEBRUARY 20, 2016

Telemedicine Today. Large health plans and even the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services are starting to reimburse for virtual care, starting first and foremost with the telehealth platforms. As of last December, the insurer began paying providers for 5 telemedicine services, including behavioral health and stroke.

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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. " He also advocated against payment parity for telemedicine and against long-term coverage for audio-only visits.

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American Well

JUNE 28, 2015

Welcome to the first installment of Avizia’s Telemedicine Today, #tday for all you Twitter users. Each  Each month, Avizia will provide a recap of the latest industry news and public policy updates on issues impacting the use and deployment of telemedicine. ” Read More. Healthcare Informatics.

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GlobalMed

JANUARY 21, 2020

That’s where telemedicine comes in to connect patients in crisis to the most advanced expertise possible. Telemedicine can’t stop those calls, but it does let providers triage patients faster and diagnose a non-emergency instead of transporting every patient to the hospital emergency department (ED). 4 Benefits of Teleparamedicine.

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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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GlobalMed

AUGUST 3, 2021

We know that rural and underserved communities can benefit from strong virtual care programs, but those same communities may have digital connectivity barriers and social determinants of health (SDOH) that stop patients from accessing telemedicine. Like many patients in her situation, she is covered by Medicaid and Medicare.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 30, 2020

Meanwhile, AMA has also updated its Quick Guide to Telemedicine in Practice in light of the COVID-19 outbreak. It offers technology implementation tips, as well as a reference to CPT codes for reporting telemedicine and remote care services. THE LARGER TREND.

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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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American Well

JUNE 22, 2017

A bipartisan group of US Senators recently reintroduced the Creating High-Quality Results and Outcomes Necessary to Improve Chronic (or CHRONIC, for short) Care Act of 2017 (first introduced in 2016 ), intended to improve healthcare outcomes for Medicare recipients living with chronic conditions.

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American Well

JUNE 22, 2017

A bipartisan group of US Senators recently reintroduced the Creating High-Quality Results and Outcomes Necessary to Improve Chronic (or CHRONIC, for short) Care Act of 2017 (first introduced in 2016 ), intended to improve healthcare outcomes for Medicare recipients living with chronic conditions.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 15, 2023

Ryan Health is a federally qualified health center based in Manhattan that has been providing comprehensive and affordable primary and specialty care to New York’s diverse and underserved communities since 1967. As an FQHC, 75% of patients are enrolled in Medicaid or Medicare; another 7% are uninsured.

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Henry Kotula

JULY 1, 2020

New report finds the growth of telemedicine visits has plateaued and accounts for a relatively small percentage of rebounding ambulatory care. On Monday, 340 organizations signed a letter urging Congress to make telehealth flexibilities created during the COVID-19 pandemic, permanent. .

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 6, 2023

We asked the Healthcare IT Today community to submit their predictions and we received a wide ranging set of responses that we grouped into a number of themes. The past two years have taught us that telemedicine is a highly scalable and successful way to deliver quality healthcare across the United States.

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Redox

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

telemedicine, primary care, diagnostics, etc.). Verticalizing and diversifying an organization’s reach in services/insurance not only adds to these groups’ revenue streams, but it also provides them an opportunity to collect and recycle data to which they otherwise would not have had access.

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Henry Kotula

APRIL 13, 2023

Prevention is not top of mind and redirecting patients to focused factories would be anathema for local hospitals and physicians — both groups are volume dependent. The same with telemedicine. This positions them to both help and compete with primary care physicians. [4]

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Henry Kotula

JUNE 14, 2020

Of those using telehealth, the majority (68 percent) used it to provide mental health services; fewer used it for primary care (30 percent) or management of chronic conditions (21 percent), suggesting that most CHCs with telehealth capabilities prior to COVID-19 were not using it for the most frequent types of services provided at CHCs.

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GlobalMed

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Fortunately, telemedicine is closing several treatment gaps. Patients in treatment facilities can have virtual group sessions with their primary care providers and family members back home. Addicts can connect to peer support groups and other resources from home to prevent relapse and abstain from gateway behaviors.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

The 2024 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (PFS) Final Rule, set forth by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), brings pivotal updates in healthcare reimbursement. The implications of these changes extend to reimbursement strategies, service delivery methods, and overall patient care quality.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Healthcare right-sizes after the telemedicine explosion. “Happy clinicians are the best ambassadors for virtual care,” the report asserted. “Sixty-nine percent of consumers said it was important to have a recommendation from their primary care doctor before using an alternative care setting such as virtual visits.

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Henry Kotula

AUGUST 5, 2020

This forced hospitals and health systems to dramatically reduce elective surgeries, lay off thousands and significantly change care delivery with the adoption of new practices and services like telemedicine. Telemedicine typifies this phenomenon. This discouraged adoption of an efficient, high-value care modality until COVID.

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Henry Kotula

JUNE 21, 2020

After his legs began to swell, and he felt “very, very lethargic,” he contacted his doctor at Catalyst Health Network, a Texas group of primary care doctors, to ask about less expensive alternatives. She and her doctor have relied on telemedicine appointments to reduce the risk of infection.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 10, 2019

Virtual care, telemedicine and remote monitoring are leading the change in how care is delivered and who can deliver it, ushering in the potential for huge savings in time, cost and efficiency while widening access to care for the patients who need it most. You can also break the link of time, with asynchronous care.

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Henry Kotula

JANUARY 2, 2019

Venture capital businesses have recently funded hundreds of startups developing technology-enabled digital health products, including wearable devices, mobile health applications, telemedicine, and personalized medicine tools. Another segment of startups focus on a separate driver of health care costs—the prices of medical services.

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Lloyd Price

OCTOBER 16, 2018

Health care is incredibly backward in its use of information and consumer technologies and there are ample opportunities to improve patient care while reducing cost. Primary Care In February, Apple launched a new subsidiary company tasked with providing healthcare clinics to Apple employees: AC Wellness.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 7, 2023

The expansion allows for people to start the cycle of primary care treatment and follow up on other treatment options that their doctor or primary provider has recommended for them, without having to worry about high costs, deductibles or transportation issues.

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