American Well

FEBRUARY 20, 2016

Payer support. Large health plans and even the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services are starting to reimburse for virtual care, starting first and foremost with the telehealth platforms. Health Affairs Blog. Insurers Open Arms to Telehealth. Plan design. Cultural acceptance. Modern Healthcare.

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Telemedicine Telehealth Primary Care Medicare 48

care innovations

AUGUST 21, 2018

Imagine that you are a tightly knit health system executive team. for a health system, it’s even more challenging. Ask a health system CFO what the financial impact is of reducing hospital admissions by 25% for chronic disease patients. But it’s not their fault: Each patient who walks in the door has a different payment model.

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Remote care Health Policy Connected Care Connected Health 40

Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 4, 2023

As we head into 2023, we wanted to kick off the new year with a series of 2023 Health IT predictions. It’s time to clean out the garage: simplification and consolidation of health IT is our next step toward optimization. Compliance with digital health regulations will drive tech modernization. It helps to manage costs.

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Health IT Primary Care Life Science Interoperability 96

LinkousThink

DECEMBER 5, 2011

According to Gary Capistrant, ATA’s resident expert on all things related to health policy, at least 73 million Americans, almost one quarter of the population, are now covered under some form of managed care. Medicare Advantage is offered mostly as a private managed care insurance plan and covers about 25 percent of all Medicare patients.

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Medicare Telemedicine Health Policy 31

The Digital Health Corner

OCTOBER 28, 2016

The Physician Quality Reporting System (PQRS) has been used since 2015 as a metric to determine negative Medicare payment adjustments to providers who do not meet quality standards. It is also essential to all true value-based reimbursement models being discussed or implemented in health care. Provide real-world data for regulators.

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Digital Health Medicare EHR mHealth 60

DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

APRIL 12, 2024

Emergence of Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) The emergence of Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) represents a paradigm shift in healthcare delivery, leveraging technology to enable remote monitoring of patients’ health parameters in real-time.

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Interoperability EHR Telehealth HIPAA 40

Lloyd Price

JANUARY 8, 2019

Amazon is hardly the first tech titan to turn its attention to the health space: Google has DeepMind and Verily; the Apple Watch can now offer you an ECG, while IBM is pushing Watson and numerous strands of healthcare industry software. Amazon has been moving forward on both hardware and software projects related to health.

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HIPAA Life Science Pharmaceuticals Nursing 52

Health Populi

OCTOBER 8, 2019

health care system, calculating that 25% of medical spending in America is wasted. economy is wasted spending by the health care system and its stakeholders. economy is wasted spending by the health care system and its stakeholders. health care. Fragmentation in payment and delivery costs the U.S. of the U.S.

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Pharmaceuticals Medicare Life Science Health Policy 260

Digital Health Global

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

63% of surveyed consultants believe that digital health point solutions will eventually be consolidated under a single navigation provider. Topics included cost management and health equity strategies, the increasing role of artificial intelligence (AI) in optimizing the patient experience and perspectives on trends in healthcare navigation.

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Digital Health Mental health Patient Experience Telehealth 88

Health Populi

AUGUST 16, 2019

As large employers’ annual health care costs for an employee are expected to exceed $15,000 in 2020, companies are focusing in on managing the pharmacy line-item, we learn from the 2020 Large Employers’ Health Care Strategy and Plan Design Survey from the National Business Group on Health (NBGH).

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Medicare Pharmaceuticals 186

CiscoHealth

APRIL 27, 2017

The majority of healthcare organizations have launched or are actively exploring how telehealth technology can solve ubiquitous pain points including physician shortages, unequitable access to care, payment reform, chronic disease management and increasing consumer demand for convenient, cost effective care.

Telehealth 48

Telehealth EMR Medicare Telemedicine 48

LinkousThink

JULY 10, 2010

Changes in the way healthcare services are paid from fee-for-service to single payment mechanisms create vast new opportunities for telemedicine but shift the decision makers that govern adoption and market expansion. population, are not eligible for most remote health services. consumers in urban areas, about 70 percent of the U.S.

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Telemedicine Medicare Accountable Care mHealth 28

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 12, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic triggered a flurry of changes to regulations around telehealth and virtual care – the vast majority of which expire once the public health emergency ends. Multiple panelists throughout the day raised payment parity as a particularly thorny issue. versus beyond." Mike Thompson, D-Calif.

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Telehealth Telemedicine Health Policy Healthcare IT 191

Health Populi

DECEMBER 11, 2019

In this 14th year of the publication, PwC polled executives from payers, providers, and pharma/life science organizations. Internally, health industry business leaders are prioritizing several workforce strategies in the new year, first and foremost to confront digital transformation.

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Life Science Medical Billing Health Data Primary Care 194

Health Populi

MAY 8, 2019

It’s a richly detailed report with a mine of data; in this Health Populi post, I’ll focus through the patient lens of Rx spending, medication adherence out-of-pocket costs, prescription drug abandonment, and the role of “place” in personal drug pricing.

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Medicare BioTech Pharmaceuticals Mental health 149

CMS.gov

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

Just another name for a government-run, single payer system. Just another name for a government-run, single payer system. The law doesn’t allow CMS to do the types of reviews that have become routine in the private sector, leading to a high frequency of improper payments, and more fraud and abuse. keya.joy-bush@….

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Medicare 55

Health Populi

AUGUST 18, 2021

The survey analysis is aptly titled, Most Americans Agree That Nurses and Aides Are Underpaid, While Few Support Using Federal Dollars to Increase Pay for Doctors, Insurance executives are also overpaid, according to 73% of Americans — an even higher percent of people than the 68% saying hospital execs make too much money.

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Nursing Health Policy Public Health Mental health 170

Insulin Nation

OCTOBER 8, 2019

Which candidates’ vision of the future of health insurance will likely do the most good for those who literally can’t live without it? On the positive side, this type of system would completely abolish the problem of diabetics being charged more for insurance premiums or being denied coverage altogether.

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Medicare 55

Health Populi

JUNE 28, 2019

But this was Round 2 of the debate, with ten more White House aspirants sharing views — sometimes sparring — on issues of immigration, economic justice, climate change, and once again health care playing a starring role from the start of the two-hour event. The line-up from left to write included: Marianne Williamson. ” Sen.

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Medicare Mental health Public Health Primary Care 175