Henry Kotula

JUNE 14, 2020

Payment parity —where telehealth is reimbursed at the same level as an in-person visit— is a crucial issue that must be addressed and instituted beyond the current public health emergency. Additionally, CHCs need ancillary systems in place to allow for the effective use of phone and video visits.

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Telehealth Primary Care Medicare HIPAA 41

Henry Kotula

MARCH 19, 2020

On Tuesday, Medicare announced that it will greatly expand coverage for telemedicine visits, previously sharply restricted. Some were over the phone, others were over video, often with a family member present as well. This week my team converted most of our clinic visits from face to face to virtual visits.

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Telemedicine Nursing Medicare Public Health 41

Health Populi

MARCH 28, 2021

First, let’s look at the research in PLOS : Cost-effectiveness of financial incentives for improving diet and health through Medicare and Medicaid: A microsimulation. That’s health cost savings at scale, given that Medicare and Medicaid cover about 1 in 3 U.S. health citizens and taxpayers.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Sherri Onyiego, Medical Director for the Texas Market at Equality Health. They also obtain public health data by ZIP code and data from a Health Information Exchange (HIE). Fixing these problems is an international undertaking, although hospitals can do more to reduce their own waste and carbon emissions (video).

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Public Health HIE Medicare Health IT 101

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.

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Telehealth Medicare Mental health Telemedicine 75

Henry Kotula

MAY 1, 2020

Accountable care organizations also scored a major win in the Thursday rule drop, with CMS pledging they wouldn’t be dinged financially for lower-than-expected health outcomes in their patient populations from COVID-19.?. Other major changes are related to COVID-19 testing for Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries.

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Health Populi

APRIL 27, 2023

The COVID-19 pandemic re-shaped European Union leaders to reimagine healthcare, public health, and health citizenship in the EU. Nonetheless, VP Schinas enthused, “Never before in the history of the EU are we able to do so much in the area of public health,” he explained.

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Pharmaceuticals Public Health Medicare Health Policy 156

Health Populi

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

They fought to erode key elements embedded in the law meant to protect health consumers’ rights: among them, health promotion, disease prevention, and public health; and the assurance that sick people would be covered by health insurance plans without prejudice. What a difference a year makes.

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