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2024 Brings New Medicare Billing Opportunities for FQHCs and RHCs with RPM and RTM Services

DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

Beginning January 1, 2024, a significant change in Medicare billing practices greatly impacted Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs) and Rural Health Clinics (RHCs). For the first time, these centers can bill Medicare separately for Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) and Remote Therapeutic Monitoring (RTM) services.

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These are the compliance issues providers should be preparing for, post-PHE

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

But even now, hospitals and health systems should be preparing proactively to meet the regulatory demands of a post-PHE future. Additionally, several telehealth flexibilities (that generally expand Medicare coverage for telehealth services) have been extended 151 days (about five months) beyond the termination of the HHS PHE.

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3 Ways Consumers are Putting the Pressure on Health Plans

Healthcare IT Today

The following is a guest article by Mike Pattwell, Principal Business Advisor, Value Based Care at Edifecs Consumers are at the heart of healthcare — their fears are forcing healthcare innovators to shift priorities to deliver consumer-centric digital health offerings. This is true today, tomorrow, and far into the future.

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ViVE24: Healthcare Goes Hollywood

Xealth

These collaborations are appearing stronger, especially among Medicare Advantage and direct to employer risk-sharing relationships. These are all great points to consider as we build the next generation of healthcare innovation. Collective Health promoting their Employer-focused “ Partner Collective.”,

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Healthcare Fragmentation Isn’t So Bad, If It Comes with Better Outcomes

Healthcare IT Today

This expectation is expanding into healthcare. Personalized healthcare meets people where they are as an individual with unique behaviors, medical histories and life circumstances. When friends meet for dinner, there’s no confusion about which dining hall they’re going to; no fragmentation. million in 2020.

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How Population Health Analytics Helps Providers Achieve Value-Based Care

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And emerging as a key way to usher in that change is population health analytics, which providers are embracing as a means to offset the risk transferred to them by new guidelines from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). Giving patients a clearer picture of their health, thereby boosting engagement.

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How COVID-19 is Changing Telemedicine Reimbursement

GlobalMed

No industry has been more dramatically disrupted than healthcare – but the pandemic has also illuminated telemedicine in what many are calling an ignition event. The goal is simple: offer providers more flexibility so they can see more patients virtually , protecting both staff and patients from exposure. That’s one prediction.