Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 25, 2021

The bill, which was first introduced in July 2020, would help safeguard access to virtual care after COVID-19 via four main provisions. Authorize the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Service to continue reimbursement for telehealth for 90 days beyond the end of the public health emergency. WHY IT MATTERS.

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Health Law Attorney

DECEMBER 18, 2020

The Centers for Medicaid & Medicare Services ( CMS ) recently released the 2021 Physician Fee Schedule ( PFS ) Final Rule. The PFS Final Rule is scheduled to be published on December 28, 2020, but an unpublished version may be accessed here. million Medicare beneficiaries receiving telemedicine services during the pandemic.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 27, 2021

Leading healthcare industry stakeholders on Monday implored top leaders in the House and Senate to help ensure, among other imperatives, that "Medicare beneficiaries [don't] abruptly lose access to nearly all recently expanded coverage of telehealth." " WHY IT MATTERS.

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Healthcare Law Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

During the COVID-19 pandemic, Medicare coverage expanded to include a vast arsenal of tools that help patients access medical services while keeping patients and practitioners safe. Department of Health & Human Services (“HHS”) declared a Public Health Emergency (the “PHE”). When does the PHE current expire?

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Health Law Advisor

MARCH 7, 2023

The proposed rules are more restrictive than the DEA emergency waivers under which providers conducted telemedicine prescribing for the last three years, but are less restrictive in comparison to the pre-PHE regulations applicable to telemedicine prescribing of controlled substances under the federal Controlled Substances Act (“CSA”).

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Sun River Health was among the first organizations to receive funding under the Federal Communications Commission COVID-19 Telehealth Program. Prior to implementing the telemedicine technology supported by the FCC program funds, Sun River Health had relatively limited and targeted capacity to support remote visits. THE PROBLEM.

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 30, 2023

Eric Bacon, President at AMD Global Telemedicine, Inc The adoption of virtual health has increased dramatically since March 2020, with 150 million telehealth claims in less than two years. Medicare does not have distinct payment rates, and reimbursement depends on the facility. So, What Comes Next?

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Healthcare Law Today

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Starting January 1, 2023, Medicare will cover telehealth-based treatment services delivered by federally-accredited opioid treatment programs (OTPs), commonly referred to as “methadone clinics.” Background and History of Medicare Telehealth Coverage of SUD Treatment. New Changes to Medicare OTP Telehealth Services.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 9, 2020

Health care is the top issue driving voters’ choices in the 2020 elections for most Americans. For overall healthcare reform, the plurality of Americans prefer improving the current system (that is, building on the Affordable Care Act) versus repealing and replacing the ACA or adopting a Medicare for All plan.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Caravan Health President and CEO Tim Gronniger previously was chief of staff and director of delivery system reform at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Caravan Health is a privately held company formed to create sustainable methodologies for health systems to excel in value-based care.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 18, 2022

As outlined in the settlement agreement , PPOA is accused of using telemedicine during the COVID-19 pandemic to allegedly try and compensate for revenue lost from elective services. "Shortly thereafter, PPOA instructed medical providers to begin seeing patients by telemedicine twice a month. and the Civil Actions."

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 29, 2022

"Telehealth accounted for a large share of ambulatory encounters at the peak of the pandemic and remained prevalent after infection rates subsided," said researchers in the study, which was funded in part by the American Telemedicine Association. Many previous large studies of telehealth use have relied on Medicare data.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 2, 2020

The moves by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to relax regulations around telehealth have been lauded by providers and patients around the country. Robin Kelly, D-Illinois, introduced a bill yesterday that would mandate a study on the effects of telehealth changes on Medicare and Medicaid during the COVID-19 crisis.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General issued a data brief this month aimed at providing insight into state evaluations and oversight of tele-behavioral services. In response to COVID-19, patients have regularly turned to telemedicine for behavioral health needs. WHY IT MATTERS. ON THE RECORD.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 25, 2020

This drove health consumers to virtual care platforms in the first months of the public health crisis — including lots of older people who had never used telemedicine or even a mobile health app. The survey was conducted online in June 2020 among 2,074 U.S. adults ages 50 to 80 years of age.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

With the COVID-19 pandemic – especially thanks to an expansion of Medicare telehealth benefits during the public health emergency – driving increased use of virtual psychiatric care, many behavioral health providers ventured into telemedicine and onboarded digital telehealth platforms. ON THE RECORD.

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C&M Health Law

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

On October 29, 2020, CMS issued the Home Health Prospective Payment System final rule [ CMS-1730-F, CMS-1744-IFC, and CMS-5531-IFC ], which permanently authorizes use of telecommunications technology as part of patient care under the Medicare home health benefit. [1].

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YouCompli

JULY 12, 2022

In fact, Medicare beneficiaries used telehealth to receive 12 percent of their services during the first year of the pandemic. An initial report from the OIG also notes that, “over 28 million Medicare beneficiaries used telehealth during the first year of the pandemic. This was more than two in five Medicare beneficiaries.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 14, 2020

"In March 2020, as coronavirus evolved into a pandemic, Congress voted to temporarily waive telehealth requirements for Medicare providers, allowing the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, or CMS, to reimburse clinicians for telehealth visits with patients at home in an area with a designated emergency," the report read.

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Healthcare Law Today

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

On November 1, 2022, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released its final 2023 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (PFS) rule. Telehealth and other digital health modalities continue to increase in importance for Medicare populations and corresponding health care providers.

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Health Populi

MARCH 12, 2020

They are likely to stay there,” asserts “ The smartphone will see you now ,” an article in the March 7th 2020 issue of The Economist. The coronavirus spawned another kind of gift to China and the nation’s health citizens: telemedicine, the essay explains. Congressional leadership on February 28 2020.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 15, 2023

Ryan Health has seven primary care centers, seven school-based health centers, two community outreach centers at transitional housing sites, and one mobile health center, all located throughout Manhattan. As an FQHC, 75% of patients are enrolled in Medicaid or Medicare; another 7% are uninsured.

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Verisys

JANUARY 27, 2022

The use of telemedicine in the U.S. was minimal prior to COVID, but since 2020 expansion of telemedicine has skyrocketed as policymakers, insurers, and health systems sought ways to deliver care to patients in their homes. According to the U.S. Telepsychiatry in particular has benefited from these changes.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 29, 2023

Prior to 2020, less than one percent (1%) of outpatient health care was delivered virtually. A national public opinion poll of U.S. On the federal level Medicare policy broadened the acceptance of virtual care. No longer does a patient have to be sitting on a therapist’s couch to receive care.

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Health Populi

JUNE 3, 2020

As we wrestle with just “what” health care will look like “after COVID,” there’s one certainty that we can embrace in our health planning and forecasting efforts: that’s the persistence of telehealth and virtual care into health care work- and life-flows, for clinicians and consumers alike and aligned.

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AIHC

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Telemedicine is considered to be under the umbrella of telehealth and refers specifically to clinical services. Telehealth and telemedicine cover similar services, including medical education, remote patient monitoring, patient consultation via videoconferencing, wireless health applications, and transmission of imaging and medical reports.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 28, 2023

Mimi Winsberg, Co-Founder and Chief Medical Officer at Brightside Health We have been in an uncertain time for regulation around telemedicine, and there are a few key trends to watch. We need to refine the Ryan Haight Act to develop a telemedicine registry that can safely prescribe controlled medication virtually.

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Health Populi

JUNE 6, 2021

Two studies published in May 2021 illustrate the value and importance of telehealth to patients in 2020, and a disconnect among many C-level executives working in hospitals, academic medical centers, and other care provider organizations. Together, the two reports from J.D. With more digital contact as well, J.D.

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 18, 2021

While telehealth usage has dipped from its peak in April 2020 , overall utilization is still 38 times higher than before the pandemic. When the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) granted payment flexibilities to facilitate access to telehealth amid the public health emergency, they also unwittingly created vulnerabilities.

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Healthcare Law Blog

MARCH 3, 2023

This surge was facilitated, in part, by certain flexibilities authorized by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services in its response to the public health emergency (“PHE”) declared in March of 2020 and which was repeatedly renewed until now. including the home of an individual. [2] 1395m(m)(4)(C). [4] 5] 42 U.S.C.

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American Medical Compliance

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

A recent study published in the medical journal Mayo Clinic Proceedings found that physician burnout increased during the first two years of the COVID-19 pandemic following a six-year drop that ended in 2020. in 2020, 43.9% Helping Doctors Through Extensive Burnout. doctors was 62.8%. These numbers have increased from 38.2%

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

In the Spring of 2020, a number of institutions—health, education, judicial, and others—went through a wrenching technological transformation: To prevent the spread of COVID-19, they took refuge online. I talked to a number of health IT and telehealth experts in a search for answers to these questions.

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 5, 2022

We have also studied the impact of telehealth on the quality of our care, and found that our telemedicine outcomes have been equivalent to our brick-and-mortar ones (the results are under peer review). Telemedicine is poised to address these access gaps if it remains legal as public-health emergency orders expire.

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HIT Consultant

APRIL 4, 2023

Top of mind is the announcement to end the COVID-19 public health emergency (PHE), which is slated to expire on May 11, 2023. State agencies are beginning to unwind expanded Medicaid coverage in conjunction with the expiration of a 2020 federal provision requiring continuous enrollment.

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Health Populi

MARCH 11, 2021

[Note: I may be biased as a University of Michigan graduate of both the School of Public Health and Rackham School of Graduate Studies in Economics]. health care, patient assistance programs, Medicare Advantage plans, and the bundling of proven high-value preventive services into the Affordable Care Act. .”

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

During COVID, Philips quickly pivoted both in terms of re-deploying its design and manufacturing capabilities for building ventilators and advising hospital clients in reallocating inpatient resources toward the pandemic needs in 2020. Our homes, too, underwent digital transformation as long as we had access to a broadband connection.

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Health Populi

JUNE 24, 2021

The third chart details some of these points: On the macroeconomic side of the forecast, we see increasing private consumption, higher inflation, less public sector support (e.g., While telehealth and virtual care stood up quickly in 2020, questions remain about how it will/can persist in terms of funding, regulation, and business models.

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