Health Policy, Primary Care and Telehealth

What’s Causing Fewer Primary Care Visits in the US?

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

Americans who have commercial health insurance (say, through an employer or union) are rarely thought to face barriers to receiving health care — in particular, primary care, that front line provider and on-ramp to the health care system. So what is primary care, anyway?

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Here's what primary care clinicians say they need to effectively implement telehealth

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Primary care providers in New York City, one of the U.S. With patients afraid to seek care in person and social distancing necessitating as little face-to-face contact as possible, many clinicians pivoted to telehealth – some with more success than others. Provide coverage for at-home monitoring devices.

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Primary Care in the U.S. – Still a Weak Backbone for the Health of Health Citizens

Health Populi

MARCH 17, 2022

Thus, millions of Americans continue to lack access to primary care compared with peers in other nations, according to a report from The Commonwealth Fund. The 2022 Fund report, P rimary Care in High-Income Countries: How the U.S. have a PCP relationship, compared with 71% of health citizens in Germany and the Netherlands.

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A Vote for Telehealth is a Vote for American Patients’ and Doctors’ Well-Being

Health Populi

APRIL 12, 2024

Congress can’t agree on much before the 2024 summer recess, there’s one bipartisan stroke of political pens in Washington, DC, that could provide some satisfaction for both patients and doctors: bring telehealth back to patients and providers permanently. S 2016) and second, re-introduce and sign the Telehealth Modernization Act.

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Three in Five People 50+ in the US Will Likely Use Telehealth In the Future – An Update from AARP

Health Populi

MAY 10, 2022

“Telehealth certainly appears to be here to stay,” the AARP forecasts in An Updated Look at Telehealth Use Among U.S. adults over 50 said they or someone in their family had used telehealth. adults 50 and over in February and March 2022, to gauge older peoples’ views on virtual care now and in the future.

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Telehealth Update from the AMA – Setting the Context for ATA 2022

Health Populi

APRIL 28, 2022

physicians were using telehealth to care for patients at the end of 2021. Among those doctors who were not providing telehealth by late 2021, just over one half never did so during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the 2021 Telehealth Survey Report from the AMA. Mental and behavioral health. Specialty care.

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Telehealth-As-Healthcare Is a Mainstream Expectation Among Consumers, J.D. Power Finds

Health Populi

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Telehealth has increased access to mental health services, I’ve highlighted this Mental Illness Awareness Week here in Health Populi. But telehealth has also emerged as a preferred channel for routine health care services, we learn from J.D. Power’s 2022 Telehealth Satisfaction Study.

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In telehealth hearing, House committee weighs access against cost

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 2, 2021

House Committee on Energy and Commerce convened Tuesday to discuss the future of virtual care. Policymakers and stakeholders emphasized the importance of balancing access to care with addressing concerns around fraud and overutilization. Witnesses offered a variety of strategies for effectively addressing the future of telehealth.

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Telehealth Reimbursement: End-of-Pandemic Emergency Update

Telebehavioral Health Institute

MARCH 9, 2023

Private payers, Medicaid, and Medicare initiated widespread telehealth reimbursement approvals. Access to Telehealth Services Private Health Insurance Coverage for telehealth and other remote care services will vary by state and private insurance plans.

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Thinking About Telehealth Through the Lens of Real Estate – Listening to JLL

Health Populi

MARCH 9, 2022

If you made your living in commercial real estate — and especially, working with hospitals’ and health systems’ office space — would the concept of telehealth be freaking you out right now? The firm asserts that, and I quote from the report, “telehealth is not replacing the physical office by any means.”

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Telehealth billing guide highlights complexities of use

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

The Center for Connected Health Policy has published a 21-page guide intended to help providers with telehealth-based Medicare and Medicaid reimbursements. The distant site for purposes of telehealth can be different from the administrative location. WHY IT MATTERS. THE LARGER TREND. ON THE RECORD.

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Telehealth, supply chain monitoring key areas of investment during pandemic

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 8, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic has helped shed light on the longer-term structural reforms needed in the US healthcare system, which include telehealth investment and medical supply chain tracking and coordination improvements. "Even simple electronic chart review consultations of in-patients have been found to be beneficial in some contexts.

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Telehealth and COVID-19 in the U.S.: A Conversation with Ann Mond Johnson, ATA CEO

Health Populi

MARCH 12, 2020

Will the coronavirus inspire greater adoption of telehealth in the U.S.? I asked myself, then went to my Oracle of Telehealth: Ann Mond Johnson, CEO of ATA (once named the American Telemedicine Association). It is clear that there’s no better use case for digital/tele/virtual health than what is unfolding right now.

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Telehealth Awareness, Access and Adoption: Updates from J.D. Power, the ATA and FAIR Health

Health Populi

AUGUST 5, 2019

Expanding its report-card role in the health ecosystem. Power has undertaken a survey on consumer satisfaction with 31 telehealth providers across 15 measures, which will be published in November 2019. Those who had a telehealth encounter more likely lived in the Western U.S., Power polled 1,000 consumers in June 2019.

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AHRQ program seeks provider organizations to help improve hybrid telehealth

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 2, 2023

The program aims to improve the cancer diagnostic process in telemedicine-enabled primary care settings by strengthening safety culture and helping practices to close the loop on care transitions and other vulnerable processes along the cancer diagnostic pathway. Dr. Hardeep Singh is principal investigator.

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Healthcare 2030: Are We Consumers, CEOs, Health Citizens, or Castaways? 4 Scenarios On the Future of Health Care and Who We Are – Part 2

Health Populi

APRIL 16, 2024

Their employer pays for a level of care and services above which Quincy spends additional funds for services they value. Quincy’s community appreciates that everyone has access to primary and tertiary care, most of which starts with virtual services delivered at home or work or on-the-go. Telehealth happens across the U.S.

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Can you identify 7 qualities of a successful telehealth program?

South Central Telehealth Resource Center

AUGUST 8, 2018

Consumer need is driving the development of telehealth programs across the country. Provider access to affordable broadband and delivery methods, such as smart phones, tablets and iPads, are driving telehealth to become a delivery platform that can meet consumer needs. Reimbursement is also key to telehealth program growth.

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Virtual Health Tech Enables the Continuum of Health from Hospital to Home

Health Populi

APRIL 21, 2021

TripleTree is an investment bank that has advised health care transactions since 1997. As such, the team has been involved in digital health financing and innovation for 24 years, well before the kind of platforms, APIs, and cloud computing now enabling telehealth and care, everywhere.

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Most Virtual Care Consumers, Satisfied With Visits in the COVID Era, Expect It for Future Care

Health Populi

JULY 10, 2020

health care providers set up virtual care arrangements to convene with patients. Three months into the COVID-19 crisis, how have patients felt about these telehealth visits? Patients’ experiences with virtual care were generally positive, with over 75% of consumers reporting being very or completely satisfied.

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Bonus Features – July 31, 2022 – House passes bill to extend telehealth flexibility to 2024, only 60% of practices hit their 2021 revenue goal, and more

Healthcare IT Today

JULY 31, 2022

House of Representatives passed by a 416-12 vote the Advancing Telehealth Beyond COVID–19 Act of 2021 , which would extend the telehealth flexibilities put in place during the public health emergency until the end of 2024. Primary care in particular seems to be suffering, as visit volumes have yet to return to their 2019 levels.

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How We Spend Versus What We Get: America’s Healthcare Spending Makes for Poor Health

Health Populi

MARCH 15, 2018

The report hints at the different (read: lesser) emphasis on primary care in the U.S. compared with most other OECD countries which have stronger and more accessible primary care backbones than America’s. This phenomenon has been known for many years through the seminal work of Dr. Barbara Starfield.

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The Ill Health of Rural Hospitals in Four Charts

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

We forecast that this will expand over the near and longer term as all health consumers are seeking more convenient, accessible, value-priced health care services. Over time, depending on the politics of health care reform, the safety net and social determinants policies (e.g., have 70% of the U.S.

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Can you identify 7 qualities of a successful telehealth program?

South Central Telehealth Resource Center

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

Consumer need is driving the development of telehealth programs across the country. Provider access to affordable broadband and delivery methods, such as smart phones, tablets and iPads, are driving telehealth to become a delivery platform that can meet consumer needs. Reimbursement is also key to telehealth program growth.

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TCMHCC and Trayt Health Addressing Youth Mental Health at Scale

Healthcare IT Today

MAY 17, 2023

The TCMHCC initiatives include: The Child Psychiatry Access Network (CPAN) which provides telehealth-based consultation and training to primary care providers The Texas Child Health Access Through Telemedicine (TCHATT) program which provides in-school behavioral telehealth care to at-risk children and adolescents.

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SEARCH 2020 – Day Two

South Central Telehealth Resource Center

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

Hari Eswaran thanking those involved and HRSA’s Deputy Associate Administrator, Heather Dimeris, speaking about the current telehealth landscape. Dr. Bill England began by discussing the wide range of resources available at HRSA with his presentation, “Telehealth and Research at HRSA. The opening plenary focused on funding.

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The Health Care Cost Curve is Bending Down – A New View from Deloitte

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

The past few years have birthed a growing roster of organizations serving up new models for primary care: the list includes CVS/health, Walgreens coupled with VillageMD, Walmart and its evolving approach to community-based primary care, and many new models for primary care targeting specific populations (from working age employed people to older folks (..)

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How The Rapid Shift To Telehealth Leaves Many Community Health Centers Behind During The COVID-19 Pandemic

Henry Kotula

JUNE 14, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic has transformed the landscape of ambulatory care with rapid shifts to telehealth. Many states have directed insurers to temporarily cover COVID-19-related services via telehealth while mandating parity of reimbursement for telehealth visits with in-person visits for their Medicaid program.

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Be Mindful About What Makes Health at HLTH

Health Populi

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Health Populi’s Hot Points: This week during the HLTH conference, we’ll learn about exciting developments in new digital health products and services embedding AI, leveraging virtual care and telehealth, serving up new models of primary care, and a growing supply of mental health services that can scale beyond traditional face-to-face (..)

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Behavioral Health Side-Effects in the COVID Era

Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Health Populi’s Hot Points: What Senator Paul Wellstone advocated for and knew way back in 2000 was that mental health is just part of health, and needed to be embedded into primary care and the U.S. health care system in terms of workflow and payment parity.

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Food As Medicine: Grocery Stores Expand as Health Destinations While the Federal Government Cuts Food Stamps

Health Populi

DECEMBER 9, 2019

This trend is occurring from coast-to-coast and is a rational re-use of brick-and-mortar space which can also bolster local economic development for job-and-health creation. This will be offered direct-to-consumer or as nutrition programs prescribed by health care providers, according to Teladoc’s press release.

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340 organizations tell Congress to make telehealth permanent

Henry Kotula

JULY 1, 2020

On Monday, 340 organizations signed a letter urging Congress to make telehealth flexibilities created during the COVID-19 pandemic, permanent. . In a tweet late yesterday, Michael Caputo, the assistant secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services for public affairs, said HHS is expected to renew the PHE before it expires.

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Consider Mental Health Equity on World Mental Health Day

Health Populi

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Ample data support the understanding that the social determinants of health and mental health are most responsible for health disparities and inequities…[and] how these social determinants of mental health are associated with inequities in the incidence and prevalence of depression in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Two Forms of Telemedicine: Synchronous vs. Asynchronous

Lloyd Price

JANUARY 17, 2020

" The University of Miami (UM) Miller School of Medicine states, "Real-time telehealth sessions are live and interactive, and frequently use video-conferencing technologies. ""Synchronous telehealth models improve convenience, access, and efficiency of care by offering walk-in telehealth services."

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Health Care In the COVID-19 Era – PwC Finds Self-Rationing of Care and Meds Especially for Chronic Care

Health Populi

MAY 20, 2020

Notably, 32% of families or people with complex chronic conditions, and 37% of those with one chronic condition, received health care treatment for the first time through a video telehealth visit.

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Digital Inclusion As Upstream Health Investment

Health Populi

JULY 5, 2021

Health care, through telehealth, health education, and wearable sensors that make up the Internet of Things for medical and healthcare. Economic sustainability, through online banking, employment, and ecommerce shopping options. Community and social context, enabling engagement and decreasing isolation’s impacts.

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Health Citizenship in the America. If Not Now, When?

Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

These new work-and-life flows have changed our relationship with our personal doctors and local health care systems, pivoting us to virtual care and telehealth platforms.

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Health Disparities and the Risks of Social Determinants for COVID-19 – 14 Months of Evidence

Health Populi

APRIL 27, 2021

In addition, policies that address underlying social determinant risk factors like housing, jobs, food security, and access to social services would be critical, ASPE believes. Pharmacists continue to enjoy high levels of trust among U.S. adults, the annual Gallup survey on honesty and ethics in professions perennially proves.

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Rationing Care in America: Cost Implications Getting to Universal Health Coverage

Health Populi

DECEMBER 19, 2018

Any plan to move American health care toward universal coverage must get real about this phenomenon: that costs are part of the health economy in terms of healthcare workers’ wages and local economies. Consider the 2020 Presidential elections and calls for universal health care.

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Doctors Without Patients: ‘Our Waiting Rooms Are Like Ghost Towns’

Henry Kotula

MAY 9, 2020

Across the country, only half of primary care doctor practices say they have enough cash to stay open for the next four weeks, according to one study, and many are already laying off or furloughing workers. The hospitals are getting massive bailouts,” said Dr. Christopher Crow, the president of Catalyst Health Network in Texas.

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9 Best Telemedicine Newsletters You Should Be Reading to Keep Up With the Industry

Enzyme Health

MARCH 27, 2019

Close For Clinicians For Employers Telehealth Jobs Family Medicine General Practice Emergency Medicine Internal Medicine Nurse Practitioners Family Nurse Practitioners Physician Assistants Psychiatry / Mental Health Hospitalist Dont see your specialty? For Broad Digital Health and Telehealth News 3.

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Ten In Ten: Manatt’s Healthcare Priorities to 2031

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Addressing mental health is, truly, embodied in every one of the ten pillars in Manatt’s imperatives: Ensuring access to both physical/medical care as well as mental health — ideally bundled into primary care.

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Asking the wrong questions about telemedicine’s impact

Henry Kotula

APRIL 24, 2021

A new study out this week revived an old argument about whether telehealth visits spur more downstream care utilization compared to in-person visits, potentially raising the total cost of care. percent vs. 5.9 percent, respectively).

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Essential Telemedicine Terms Clinicians Should Know

Enzyme Health

JUNE 19, 2019

Here’s the essential telehealth terminology that will put you ahead of the curve. This quick telehealth glossary covers the basic terminology telemedicine clinicians should know. Get to know these, and you should be able to follow along with most telehealth industry conversations or lectures no problem.

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Consumers’ Trust In Pharmacists As Providers Grows Along with Omnichannel Health Care

Health Populi

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Increasingly, technology is playing a role in patients’ relationships with pharmacies, whether for e-prescribed refills, apps enabling telehealth visits (including mental health therapy sessions), or live chats with licensed pharmacists for real-time advice.

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What’s Causing Fewer Primary Care Visits in the US?

Here's what primary care clinicians say they need to effectively implement telehealth

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Primary Care in the U.S. – Still a Weak Backbone for the Health of Health Citizens

A Vote for Telehealth is a Vote for American Patients’ and Doctors’ Well-Being

Three in Five People 50+ in the US Will Likely Use Telehealth In the Future – An Update from AARP

Telehealth Update from the AMA – Setting the Context for ATA 2022

Telehealth-As-Healthcare Is a Mainstream Expectation Among Consumers, J.D. Power Finds

In telehealth hearing, House committee weighs access against cost

Telehealth Reimbursement: End-of-Pandemic Emergency Update

Thinking About Telehealth Through the Lens of Real Estate – Listening to JLL

Telehealth billing guide highlights complexities of use

Telehealth, supply chain monitoring key areas of investment during pandemic

Telehealth and COVID-19 in the U.S.: A Conversation with Ann Mond Johnson, ATA CEO

Telehealth Awareness, Access and Adoption: Updates from J.D. Power, the ATA and FAIR Health

AHRQ program seeks provider organizations to help improve hybrid telehealth

Healthcare 2030: Are We Consumers, CEOs, Health Citizens, or Castaways? 4 Scenarios On the Future of Health Care and Who We Are – Part 2

Can you identify 7 qualities of a successful telehealth program?

Virtual Health Tech Enables the Continuum of Health from Hospital to Home

Most Virtual Care Consumers, Satisfied With Visits in the COVID Era, Expect It for Future Care

Bonus Features – July 31, 2022 – House passes bill to extend telehealth flexibility to 2024, only 60% of practices hit their 2021 revenue goal, and more

How We Spend Versus What We Get: America’s Healthcare Spending Makes for Poor Health

The Ill Health of Rural Hospitals in Four Charts

Can you identify 7 qualities of a successful telehealth program?

TCMHCC and Trayt Health Addressing Youth Mental Health at Scale

SEARCH 2020 – Day Two

The Health Care Cost Curve is Bending Down – A New View from Deloitte

How The Rapid Shift To Telehealth Leaves Many Community Health Centers Behind During The COVID-19 Pandemic

Be Mindful About What Makes Health at HLTH

Behavioral Health Side-Effects in the COVID Era

Food As Medicine: Grocery Stores Expand as Health Destinations While the Federal Government Cuts Food Stamps

340 organizations tell Congress to make telehealth permanent

Consider Mental Health Equity on World Mental Health Day

Two Forms of Telemedicine: Synchronous vs. Asynchronous

Health Care In the COVID-19 Era – PwC Finds Self-Rationing of Care and Meds Especially for Chronic Care

Digital Inclusion As Upstream Health Investment

Health Citizenship in the America. If Not Now, When?

Health Disparities and the Risks of Social Determinants for COVID-19 – 14 Months of Evidence

Rationing Care in America: Cost Implications Getting to Universal Health Coverage

Doctors Without Patients: ‘Our Waiting Rooms Are Like Ghost Towns’

9 Best Telemedicine Newsletters You Should Be Reading to Keep Up With the Industry

Ten In Ten: Manatt’s Healthcare Priorities to 2031

Asking the wrong questions about telemedicine’s impact

Essential Telemedicine Terms Clinicians Should Know

Consumers’ Trust In Pharmacists As Providers Grows Along with Omnichannel Health Care

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