Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 4, 2021

Hospitals will negotiate hard with Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and Medicare Advantage plans to be paid on a per month basis to ensure there is a continuous revenue stream, moving away totally from a fee-for-service agreement. They will seek supplier agreements that are more long term with lower upfront investments.

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South Central Telehealth Resource Center

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

The following is a list of legislative activities compiled by the Center for Connected Health Policy (CCHP) for telehealth and telemedicine within the South Central region (AR, MS, and TN). Adds trained and licensed education personnel to those persons who may staff telehealth services at a school site. LEGISLATION. Mississippi.

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Henry Kotula

JUNE 14, 2020

Thirty-six percent cited lack of reimbursement, 23 percent lacked funding for equipment, and 21 percent lacked training for providing telehealth. 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.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 25, 2022

The specialty care programs are delivered remotely by Biofourmis’ trained health navigators, who are frontline care coordinators, as well as a multidisciplinary team of licensed clinicians, including physicians, nurses and advanced practice providers.

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South Central Telehealth Resource Center

APRIL 9, 2018

The following is a list of legislative activities compiled by the Center for Connected Health Policy (CCHP) for telehealth and telemedicine within the South Central region (AR, MS, and TN). Tennessee HB 1747 3/14/18: Taken off notice for cal in s/c Health. LEGISLATION. Pending Legislation. State Bill Number Status Summary.

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Docnotes

JANUARY 3, 2022

We had a course called Health, Care & Society wherein students were challenged to learn and think about ethical issues, health policy principles and engaged in conversations on the role of medical providers in our communities. Physicians are taught medicine – not health. And this is a symptom of our problem.

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South Central Telehealth Resource Center

MARCH 5, 2018

The following is a list of legislative activities compiled by the Center for Connected Health Policy (CCHP) for telehealth and telemedicine within the South Central region (AR, MS, and TN). 2/28/18: On Health Subcommittee calendar for 3/7. 2/28/18: Taken off notice for calendar in House Health Sub Committee. LEGISLATION.

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South Central Telehealth Resource Center

MAY 14, 2018

The following is a list of legislative activities compiled by the Center for Connected Health Policy (CCHP) for telehealth and telemedicine within the South Central region (AR, MS, and TN). Reimbursement will be based upon the applicable Medicare guidelines and coding for the different service providers. LEGISLATION.

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South Central Telehealth Resource Center

JUNE 29, 2018

The following is a list of legislative activities compiled by the Center for Connected Health Policy (CCHP) for telehealth and telemedicine within the South Central region (AR, MS, and TN). Reimbursement will be based upon the applicable Medicare guidelines and coding for the different service providers. LEGISLATION.

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Henry Kotula

JULY 7, 2021

Sure, we still had to wear masks on the flights, trains and buses. As many as 27,000 Americans who survived COVID-19 may end up dead over the next decade as a result of behavioral health-related challenges, and that number may ultimately reach more than 154,000. Not Medicare. The staff at Nationals Park here in D.C.

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Henry Kotula

MARCH 19, 2020

On Tuesday, Medicare announced that it will greatly expand coverage for telemedicine visits, previously sharply restricted. That said, physicians and nurses will need high-quality training to provide compassionate and thorough care to a patient from across a computer screen.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 22, 2022

We can expect value-based contracting in 2023 to embed health equity incentives, such as this contract struck between Independence Blue Cross and Jefferson Health to address health for residents of Philadelphia including the Accelerate Health Equity initiative.

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GlobalMed

JULY 21, 2019

Telehealth bills are pending in Congress; Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has announced policy changes and new coverage as well. Resources like the Center for Connected Health Policy can help. Think of your virtual health program like a startup, then pursue funding from grants and. Get funded.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Professionals focused on expanding their telehealth services through Medicare will also be delighted to see the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) final 2023 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (PFS). Key Medicare Behavioral Telehealth Regulations. The 12/22/22 Senate passage of the 1.7

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Kaiser Permanente Center for Total Health

JANUARY 4, 2018

This question and others were discussed at a forum I participated in, entitled “Leveraging Telehealth to Expand Access to High-Quality Care” and hosted by Kaiser Permanente’s Institute for Health Policy (IHP) at the Center for Total Health in Washington, D.C., on December 14. A primary concern is cost. Unless the entire U.S.

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Henry Kotula

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

So those of us who work in education will need to train medical, nursing, and other students for a healthcare future that looks quite different from the healthcare present and takes place in settings we couldn’t imagine 10 years ago. Diminishing fragmented healthcare and redundant care will become an increasing focus for health policy.

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Health Populi

APRIL 3, 2023

public does not want politicians to “up-end” government-funded health programs, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation’s March 2023 Health Tracking Poll. Most health citizens, cross party affiliation, are worried about the future of Medicare. A majority of the U.S. voters ages 18 and over.

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