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AccessHealth uses telemedicine to boost mental health visits by 10% during COVID-19

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Staff members were unsure if Medicare and Medicaid would honor the prospective payment-system rate. Decisions were not made yet on the level of payment. In 2017, AccessHealth set goals that were modeled after the Department of Health and Human Service’s Healthy People 2020 Program.

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Uncompensated Care and DSH (Medicare disproportionate share hospitals)

AIHC

Medicare Uncompensated Care Payments & DSH Hospitals' charity care and bad debt, together known as uncompensated care, is used to calculate disproportionate-share hospital payments. LTCHs are paid under the Long-Term Care Hospital Prospective Payment System (LTCH PPS).

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Health Provider News

Hall Render

health-tech startup MemoryWell pivots, eyes new funding to roll out software for insurers Department of Veterans Affairs health system kicks off multiyear Greater Washington expansion Georgetown to open Southeast D.C.

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A Health-Heavy State of the Union

Kaiser Health News

The FDA is at the center of the abortion pill case, which challenges its approval of the drug decades ago and could set a precedent for legal challenges to the approval of other drugs. I also want to point out that neither Republicans nor Biden have yet said that they consider Medicaid in that same untouchable category.