Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 30, 2023

While it made "significant" changes to the Medicare Benefits Schedule (MBS), the expanded telehealth services were "only partly supported by sound implementation arrangements." FINDINGS Based on the state audit , the department fell short in governance, risk management, and evaluation of the telehealth expansion.

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BHM Healthcare Solutions

AUGUST 23, 2022

“Telemedicine lets you get away from the confines of a brick-and-mortar clinic that’s open 8 to 5, so you can work expanded hours,” says Matt Mishkind, PhD, an assistant professor of psychiatry at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus in Aurora. meeting with a psychiatrist over the phone or video chat).

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 5, 2024

The company will integrate the products within its comprehensive virtual clinic programs, which include medical care with prescription medications like Suboxone, addiction counseling and therapy, psychiatry for concurrent mental health issues, targeted case management, and pharmacy services. Managing Partner at T.Rx

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Online psychiatry service Lavender expanded to California, Nevada, and Oregon. Drug search engine Marketplace Search by Waltz Health is now available to Medicare health plans. Launches and Other Company News CancerX announced the 16 members of its inaugural Startup Accelerator.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

She’s board certified in child and adolescent psychiatry as well as adult psychiatry. As telehealth in general, including telepsychiatry, has become more commonly used, there has been pressure on Medicaid, Medicare and private insurance companies to develop standards for coding and billing for telehealth services.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 1, 2020

Following changes at the federal level to facilitate access to telehealth – namely, relaxation in regulations from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and the Office of Civil Rights – MUSC also ramped up its outpatient virtual services. "Many departments had achieved 80% of pre-pandemic levels.

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Iris Telehealth

JULY 3, 2023

It’s one of the direct outcomes of the Medicaid 1115 waivers , it’s a primary outcome for certified community behavioral health centers (CCBHC) , and it’s going to be something that insurance payers, Medicare, and Medicaid will require. This virtual approach to psychiatry is crucial as the country experiences a growing provider shortage.

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Iris Telehealth

JANUARY 30, 2024

How Carilion Clinic overcame staffing challenges during COVID-19 and beyond Laura Taylor, the Program Director of Psychiatry at Carilion Clinic spoke to the organization’s challenges navigating call outs during the COVID-19 pandemic. We absolutely want people that are willing and able to accept Medicare and Medicaid.”

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 4, 2022

A study of Medicare beneficiaries published in JAMA Psychiatry and co-authored by CDC, CMS, and the National Institute on Drug Abuse found that emergency-authorized telehealth services for treating opioid use disorder during the pandemic was associated with improved medication retention and lower odds of medically treated overdose.

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Iris Telehealth

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

It’s one of the direct outcomes of the Medicaid 1115 waivers , it’s a primary outcome for certified community behavioral health centers (CCBHC) , and it’s going to be something that insurance payers, Medicare, and Medicaid will require. This virtual approach to psychiatry is crucial as the country experiences a growing provider shortage.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Medicaid was the most frequently received reimbursement, followed by cash, Veterans Health Administration, commercial insurance, Medicare, and others. . The In August 2022, JAMA Psychiatry published the results of an investigation of 175,778 patients undergoing telehealth opioid treatment. The Efficacy of Suboxone Telemedicine.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 5, 2022

In terms of alleviating the psychiatrist shortage, the key will be encouraging more people to go into psychiatry to begin with, which means offering competitive salaries, good working environments and ensuring meaningful time with patients.

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Iris Telehealth

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Is your emergency department (ED) becoming the go-to for behavioral health patients because your psychiatry unit is under too much pressure? Providing follow-ups for patients discharged from the hospital, thus ensuring continuity of care and Medicare compliance. If so, you’re not alone.

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Iris Telehealth

AUGUST 13, 2021

Is your emergency department (ED) becoming the go-to for behavioral health patients because your psychiatry unit is under too much pressure? Providing follow-ups for patients discharged from the hospital, thus ensuring continuity of care and Medicare compliance. If so, you’re not alone.

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American Well

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

There is a national mental health provider shortage, especially for psychiatry services. Consumers use quality performance metrics to compare health plans, while health plans use these metrics to evaluate providers and maximize payments from Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).

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Continue Education Journal

JUNE 12, 2019

The reality of having virtual services available from specialities like psychiatry, dermatology, primary care, plastic surgery would mean more accessible healthcare for all, regardless of income. The switch to telehealth services will also help stabilize the increasing healthcare costs.

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American Well

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

There is a national mental health provider shortage, especially for psychiatry services. Consumers use quality performance metrics to compare health plans, while health plans use these metrics to evaluate providers and maximize payments from Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).

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Iris Telehealth

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Many hospitals and health systems have never implemented a psychiatry or telepsychiatry program. You’ll also contract and panel with health plans including Medicaid and Medicare as well as local, regional, and relevant private health plans. Other hospitals have dabbled in telemedicine by providing telestroke or teleradiology services.

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Iris Telehealth

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Is your emergency department (ED) becoming the go-to for behavioral health patients because your psychiatry unit is under too much pressure? Providing follow-ups for patients discharged from the hospital, thus ensuring continuity of care and Medicare compliance. If so, you’re not alone.

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MeMD

DECEMBER 7, 2021

reports a full 50% of psychiatry visits are now virtual, and MeMD’s own data echoes these results. Medicare, too, expanded telehealth benefits. As long as the federal COVID-19 public health emergency is in effect, Medicare beneficiaries will continue to have access to a broad set of covered services via telehealth.

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Society for Participatory Medicine

OCTOBER 25, 2021

A PubMed search for “Participatory Medicine” lists 5,659 hits (as of June 5,) starting with the 1973 publication Participatory management in psychiatry , whose abstract beautifully notes “the basic conflicts between participatory management and authority, responsibility, and conflicting value systems.”

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American Well

JULY 13, 2020

By 2020, IU Health had launched on-demand virtual psychiatry assessments in the ED and a virtual peer recovery program, going live in 14 hospitals in less than 100 days. As the virus began to spread across the United States, Verizon expanded the LiveHealth Online benefit to its associate (union) employees and pre-Medicare retirees.

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eVisit

JANUARY 17, 2019

What’s this new thing called Telemedicine? For starters, it’s not new! I t’s more than 40 years old and was developed as a way to use improvements in communication technology to bring quality medical diagnoses and care to individuals in remote parts of the world.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Healthcare provider executives surveyed by HRI most frequently cited mental health and psychiatry (58%), family medicine (56%), obstetrics and gynecology (46%), and pediatrics (44%) as the specialties in which their organizations will offer virtual visits in 2021.”

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