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Health systems, care delivery groups, Amazon launch hospital-at-home initiative

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Encourage greater flexibility for home-based care services to meet commercial and Medicare Advantage network adequacy standards. They also point to research showing home-based care to reduce likelihood of hospital readmissions. Ensure equal access for seniors through fair reimbursement for home-based evaluation and monitoring codes.

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Resilience Healthcare to Implement Altera Digital Health’s Paragon® EHR and Ventus Solutions

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Healthcare organizations want to get the most out of their substantial IT investments, but for community hospitals, it is absolutely critical,” said Dr. Manoj Prasad, President & Group CEO, Resilience Healthcare. “As

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Where telemedicine is headed now that the PHE has ended

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Some of those expansive measures, like expanded Medicare reimbursement for telehealth, will remain, at least temporarily, and others, like continuous Medicaid enrollment, will be phased out entirely in the next few months. What does the end of the PHE mean for the future of telemedicine?

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Orlando Health to launch Hospital Care at Home program

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Orlando Health's program is the first in Central Florida to be approved by Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, and represents an expansion of a federal enhanced care model created during the pandemic to extend the scop of hospital resources. It's going to be the emergency department for heart attacks or strokes.

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RPM strategies for moving from discharge to hospital-at-home care

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McKinsey estimates $265 billion worth of care services for Medicare patients could shift from traditional facilities to the home by 2025. Hospital-at-home is not a discharge from the hospital, it is providing the hospital level care in the home. With that said, hospital-at-home takes the home setting to an all-new level.

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Upcoming Healthcare Regulations and Their Impact on Healthcare IT

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cut to physicians who treat the country’s most vulnerable patients through Medicare. Every healthcare stakeholder needs to say out loud what we all know to be true—that the way we reimburse ambulatory clinicians under Medicare is fundamentally broken and in need of a major structural overhaul.

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How Employer Health Plans Can Utilize Telehealth as a Value-Added Service

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Keeping hospital admissions to a minimum. By improving patient engagement and healthy behaviors, telehealth has the potential to help keep employees out of the hospital. We're not trying to push as much volume through a hospital,” Marcus says. Improving general employee satisfaction.