Digital Health Global

APRIL 5, 2024

A comprehensive and insightful report analyzing these transformative trends has been added to our industry-leading research publication collections. The Theranos Legacy 5 Market Trends 5.1 Biohacking trend supports self-testing. Central Lab 4.3.4 Physician Office Lab’s 4.3.4.1 The Problem with POLS 4.3.5 Rapid Result 5.1.4

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Digital Health Wire

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Since Medicare coverage first took effect almost six decades ago, the program’s runaway spending has played a leading role in the story of the federal budget. An excellent piece in The New York Times highlighted how Medicare’s unsustainable climb reached a turning point in 2011, and for reasons that aren’t exactly clear.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 12, 2020

introduced new legislation this week that would provide for permanent Medicare payments for telehealth services at federally qualified health centers and rural health clinics. THE LARGER TREND. Butterfield, D-North Carolina, and Glenn Thompson, R-Pa., " WHY IT MATTERS. Earlier this month, Rep. Robin Kelly, D-Ill.,

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Health Populi

JUNE 29, 2021

consumers’ bipartisan support for drug price regulation through Medicare negotiation and private/commercial sector adoption. Anthem’s joining up with the CivicaRx program is a signal for that trend. The FDA regulatory process and aftermath. Congressional legislation addressing the price of medicines in the U.S., and beyond.

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Health Populi

JUNE 13, 2018

That’s how media outlets will cover the top-line of PwC’s report Medical cost trend: Behind the numbers 2019. medical trend growth projected for 2019 that will impact healthcare providers, insurers, and suppliers to the industry. However, there are other forces underneath the stable-looking 6.0% economy by 2026.

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FierceHealthIT

JANUARY 10, 2019

Persistently high-cost Medicare patients tend to be younger, members of racial or ethnic minority groups, dual-eligible Medicaid patients or suffering from end-stage renal disease, a new study reports.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Disclaimer: This blog article, “Mastering Remote Patient Monitoring Reimbursement: A Guide to Medicare Billing Success,” offers general information and is not a substitute for professional advice. Medicare, as a crucial player in healthcare reimbursement, plays a pivotal role in facilitating the adoption of RPM.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

APRIL 11, 2024

In this digital age, where technology is advancing at an unprecedented pace, the Centers for Medicare Services (CMS) plays a crucial role in regulating and supporting RPM services. The post How the Centers for Medicare Services Supports and Regulates Remote Patient Monitoring Services appeared first on DrKumo.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

JANUARY 6, 2024

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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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JULY 28, 2020

Consumers are on board with telehealth , and engagement technologies like smartphones and tablets are offered through Medicare Advantage , plus a wave of other pandemic-related tactics and free offerings appeared. Between boosting the deployment of telehealth technologies, once-delayed initiatives became instantly late.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

health care’s negative-sum game, stakeholders who survive and win that game will have to deliver value-for-money, we learn from Trilliant Health’s 2023 Trends Shaping the Health Economy Report. Now check out Trend 6 on Disintermediation — a growing supply side of retail- and home-based care providers.

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Primary Care Medical Billing Medicare Patient Experience 240

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 12, 2020

Adrian Smith, R-Nebraska, and Ann Kuster, D-New Hampshire – would allow Medicare to enter into voluntary, value-based arrangements with medical groups to provide acute care to patients in skilled nursing facilities using a combination of telehealth and on-site staff. THE LARGER TREND. THE LARGER TREND.

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Health Populi

JUNE 2, 2022

RAND and CMS research into seniors health disparities among Medicare Advantage enrollees. Mental health trends among seniors. A CDC report on Long-COVID being undiagnosed or overlooked in many older adults. AARP’s assessment of telemedicine use among older people in the pandemic.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 20, 2023

A bipartisan group of legislators has reintroduced the Creating Opportunities Now for Necessary and Effective Care Technologies for Health Act – first introduced in 2016 – to expand opportunities and coverage for telehealth through Medicare. THE LARGER TREND In 2021, a bipartisan group of 50 U.S. Enterprise Taxonomy:

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Data released this past week from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services show that more than 34.5 million services were delivered via telehealth in Medicare and in the Children's Health Insurance Program from March through June. THE LARGER TREND. WHY IT MATTERS. As of June 2020, said CMS, more than 91.8

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Health Recovery Solutions

MAY 11, 2021

Remote monitoring and telehealth, coupled with in-home clinical care, enables the provision of high-quality care for Medicare Advantage members—particularly high-acuity, high-cost members. Remote monitoring and telehealth allow members the opportunity to heal in the comfort of their homes with their loved ones.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 11, 2023

The Kaiser Family Foundation recently looked at state trends with regard to expanding access to telehealth-based behavioral care during the pandemic and found that states see telemedicine as a key component of maintaining access to behavioral healthcare for Medicaid enrollees. " THE LARGER TREND. WHY IT MATTERS.

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FierceHealthIT

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

city with the most racially segregated hospital market, according to a newly released Lown Institute analysis built on 2021 Medicare and Census data. | New Orleans stands as the U.S.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 21, 2022

According to a press release , the surgeon, 56-year-old Dr. Elemer Raffai, is accused of allegedly submitting false claims to Medicare in exchange for kickbacks from telemedicine companies. Raffai, together with others, is allegedly connected to the submission of approximately $10 million in fraudulent claims to Medicare.

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Lloyd Price

JULY 21, 2023

Here are some of the recent trends in HealthTech M&A valuation multiples: Valuation multiples vary depending on the subsector of healthtech. Regulatory changes, such as the implementation of the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorisation Act (MACRA), which have made it more difficult for healthcare providers to make money.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 17, 2024

Those are the high-level findings of MDaudit’s 2023 Benchmark Report on the trends, challenges, and opportunities encountered by U.S. This underscores industry trends toward increased productivity and strategic implementation of technology, automation, and analytics in billing compliance and revenue cycle management operations.

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Advanced Medical Reviews

JANUARY 9, 2019

As we start a new year, let’s take a look at a few of the trends shaping the future of telehealth, including its increased utilization across the country. In a recent report to Congress, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services ( CMS) stated that telehealth laws limit the service as a healthcare option. Government in Action.

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FierceHealthIT

APRIL 16, 2020

Hospitals and health systems across the country are seeing huge increases in virtual medical visits, and it's expected that this trend will only continue in a post-pandemic world.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

These trends began to take hold in the U.S. Retail health-meets-Medicare. This work started in 2023 involving Walmart Health clinics serving Medicare members and looking to partner with UnitedHealth plan members and others. Like speaking “American,” health insurance in the U.S.

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Primary Care Medicare Medical Billing Public Health 212

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 26, 2024

THE LARGER TREND In December, Steven Ullman, director at the Center for Health Management and Policy at the University of Miami, said that telehealth utilization dropped to 5.4% of medical claims since use skyrocketed during the pandemic.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

The initiative, a coalition of industry stakeholders including providers, payers and vendors, applauded efforts to make permanent changes to Medicare's statutory restrictions on telehealth coverage in its letter. THE LARGER TREND. Department of Health and Human Services to expand telehealth in Medicare. WHY IT MATTERS.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JUNE 4, 2020

In addition, telehealth visits scaled 175 times the pre-COVID volume, no doubt due to the obvious – people could not go to the doctors’ office and for older adults, Medicare began to reimburse telehealth at the same rate as in-person.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 4, 2021

Encourage greater flexibility for home-based care services to meet commercial and Medicare Advantage network adequacy standards. THE LARGER TREND. Many healthcare leaders have seen the trend moving in this direction for some time. Advocate for a bundled-payment model for extended care in the home. But other than that?

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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 LARGER TREND. WHY IT MATTERS.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 10, 2022

House of Representatives approved an omnibus spending bill late Wednesday night that extends temporary telehealth flexibilities under Medicare beyond the COVID-19 pandemic. THE LARGER TREND. With the passage of the bill , which now heads to the U.S. The mammoth $1.5 ON THE RECORD.

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Health Populi

JUNE 27, 2022

The full report speaks to medical spending and utilization trends for preventive care, telehealth, and behavioral health. For example, women in low-income areas are projected to undergo 10% fewer mammograms in 2022, based on trend rates found in mammography since 2018.

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FierceHealthIT

JULY 19, 2018

It's a reversal from prior trends when private spending growth was near or below Medicare and Medicaid rates. A new analysis from the Altarum Institute found that spending and price growth among the privately insured sped up in 2017 and the first half of 2018 compared to public payers.

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care innovations

JUNE 13, 2018

The Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) has worked for years to increase awareness of digital healthcare, highlighting how telemedicine trends are changing the American healthcare industry in fundamental ways , like the rise of the nursing informaticist and nurturing diversity in healthcare IT.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 25, 2021

According to a press statement from Thompson's office, it would: Eliminate most geographic and originating site restrictions on the use of telehealth in Medicare and establishing the patient’s home as an eligible distant site. " THE LARGER TREND.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 31, 2022

senators and representatives urged congressional leadership to safeguard Medicare telehealth services this past Friday. "Without more definitive knowledge about the duration of the pandemic and Medicare’s long-term coverage of telehealth, many organizations have been hesitant to fully invest in telehealth," the letter read.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

An excepted benefit allows employers to finance additional medical care, like vision or dental coverage, according to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services FAQs for insurance agents and brokers, requiring Congress to amend previous public health and funding laws. In an announcement about the bipartisan bill, Rep.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 7, 2021

We owe it to our patients to make health care access easier, and patients with Medicare should not be excluded from this opportunity," said Dr. Brian Hasselfeld, medical director of digital health and telemedicine at Johns Hopkins Medicine, in a statement. THE LARGER TREND. Most recently, a report from the U.S.

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