Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 25, 2021

A cohort study of more than 36 million people in the United States found a dramatic increase in telehealth use during the first four months of the COVID-19 pandemic. of contacts in 2019. Rates were also higher in states with high rates of COVID-19 during the study and in urban locations. ON THE RECORD.

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Electronic Health Reporter

MARCH 6, 2020

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) took additional actions to ensure America’s patients, healthcare facilities and clinical laboratories are prepared to respond to the 2019-Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19). This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited.

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Health Care Law Brief

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Although the COVID-19 pandemic is still active worldwide, health care industry leaders and regulators have already begun to think about how to implement post-pandemic changes to health care delivery based on lessons learned during the global emergency of the past year and a half.

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Hall Render

JULY 18, 2022

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) has given itself an extra year to review and assess skilled nursing facility proposed regulations issued in 2019. Since the beginning of the COVID?19 Areas Addressed in 2019 Proposed Rule. Background. Extra Time.

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McBrayer Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Posted In COVID-19 , Health Care Fraud , Healthcare Regulation , Telehealth The shift to telemedicine in the United States predates the pandemic, but COVID-19 has accelerated its widespread use.

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Bill of Health

JANUARY 19, 2022

COVID-19 antivirals must not affect HIV drug supply. Racial and Ethnic Representation in US Clinical Trials of New Drugs and Biologics, 2015-2019. Raising Medicaid Rebates For Drugs With Accelerated Approval. A full posting of abstracts/summaries of these articles may be found on our? Barber M, Sarpatwari A, Cepuch C.

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Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

In other words, the statistics include patient portal use before the COVID-19 pandemic – and before the final rule implementing key patient access provisions of the 21st Century Cures Act. As ONC notes, these data points are from the Health Information National Trends Survey, which was fielded from January through April 2020.

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Electronic Health Reporter

APRIL 7, 2020

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has delivered near $34 billion in the past week to the healthcare providers on the frontlines battling the 2019 Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19). This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Census Bureau found that the level of health insurance enrollment fell by 1 million people in 2019 , with about 30 million Americans not covered by health insurance. Nearly 7 million Americans lost health coverage due to COVID-19, a national survey from Civis Analytics found, in The State of Health Insurance in COVID-19 America.

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Health Populi

JUNE 23, 2023

A critical insight that’s quite clear from this chart from the report is that deaths from preventable and treatable causes substantially rose especially in certain states between 2019 and 2021 in the thick of the COVID-19 pandemic. “Women faced particularly severe challenges during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 18, 2022

"In 2019, UVA Health created a multi-stakeholder strategic plan for telemedicine." UVA Health's response to COVID-19 has been multipronged. Pre-COVID-19 programs focused on specialty care access. "We were forced to teach and train our partners from a distance. '" PROPOSAL.

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Bill of Health

APRIL 25, 2022

Anticipated efficiencies, real costs: Medicaid managed care organizations and the pharmacy benefit. US Food and Drug Administration-mandated postmarketing studies for high-risk cardiovascular devices approved 2015-2019. A full posting of abstracts/summaries of these articles may be found on our website. Bendicksen L, Kesselheim AS.

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Health Populi

JUNE 27, 2022

The second bar chart illustrates the per member/per month (PMPM) spend for commercially insured workers, showing growth of over 7% from 2018 to 2019, and nearly 7% drop from 2019 to 2020 in the first year of the pandemic. from the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2019 to 1.29

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 5, 2021

The children live nationwide but the focus is on areas heavily impacted by COVID-19, such as the Northeast and the central and southeastern U.S. Transplant activity at UPMC Children's Hospital was able to be safely maintained during the COVID-19 pandemic. THE PROBLEM. " RESULTS.

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HIPAA Journal

JUNE 26, 2023

Nationwide Discretion Announced during the COVID-19 Pandemic During the COVID-19 pandemic, healthcare providers had to deal with a nationwide public health crisis, the likes of which had never been seen before.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 26, 2020

As the COVID-19 crisis has made evident, telehealth can be a useful tool to help connect patients with services remotely. Throughout 2018 and 2019, Northwell Health piloted small-scale programs in partnership with the Gary and Mary West Health Institute Collaboration to bring medical services virtually to the homes of their patients.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 19, 2022

It is Brooklyn's tertiary care hub serving diverse communities with large Medicaid, Medicare and uninsured populations. "By late 2019, we created a definition of digital health to differentiate our responsibilities from those of our colleagues in IT and marketing, with whom we collaborate to align objectives, assets and resources.

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Provider Trust

JANUARY 25, 2024

Ensuring the Financial Integrity of HHS Programs In fiscal year (FY) 2022, improper payments within healthcare programs like Medicare, Medicaid, and Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) were estimated at a staggering $131.6 With Medicaid, the challenges are equally formidable.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 19, 2020

" “Telehealth has been instrumental in connecting patients and health care professionals during COVID-19. "COVID is not the great equalizer," Smith said, pointing out that communities of color have been disproportionately affected by the pandemic. Tina Smith, D-Minn., Bill Cassidy, R-La.,

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Health Populi

JUNE 22, 2022

Here for 2022, the second chart tracks the “stark toll” of the COVID-19 pandemic and the excess deaths experienced for each state since the pandemic emerged in February 2020. deaths per 100,000 population between 2019 and 2020. The overall death rates for this scenario increased from 83.8

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Med-Net Compliance

AUGUST 4, 2022

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) indicate that individuals who are aged 65 and older or nursing home residents are at a higher risk for severe illness from COVID-19. In addition, 8 out of 10 COVID-19 deaths reported in the United States in 2020 were adults aged 65 years and older.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 21, 2023

Inflation, the COVID-19 pandemic, and healthcare staffing shortages have reshaped the industry landscape. In the same time period we have seen a large surge in Medicaid enrollment. Pre-pandemic Medicaid numbers stayed steady in the 74 – 76 million beneficiaries’ level between 2017 and 2020.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

He said that in January 2019 – more than a year before the COVID-19 pandemic necessitated, in short order, an even bigger, more sustained and more widespread scaling up of virtual care services than could ever have been imagined two years ago. How to navigate a new policy landscape.

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HIPAA Journal

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

The Government Accountability Office (GAO) recently conducted a review of Medicare telehealth services provided during the COVID-19 pandemic, when a waiver was in place that greatly expanded access to telehealth and virtual visits. Between April and December 2019, 5 million Medicare telehealth visits were conducted.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 29, 2022

With a shortage of physicians to address the growing need for care, a lack of providers who accept Medicaid, and access issues due to transportation or office hour challenges, healthcare organizations are looking to technology to help bridge the gap. Addressing the increasing need for behavioral health services is a nationwide challenge.

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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. In 2019 and 2020, its partners earned $300 million in Medicare savings, more than $120 million in shared savings, and quality scores exceeding 97%, the company reported.

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Healthcare Law Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2022

The numbers in the last three categories highlighted in the last paragraph more closely align with the yearly numbers presented for fiscal years 2019 and 2020, which might indicate that the COVID-19 pandemic prevented or delayed OIG representatives from handing out penalties.

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AIHC

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Compliance Considerations for Best Outcomes Written in collaboration with the AIHC Volunteer Education Committee Delivering mental health services via telehealth has increased since the COVID-19 pandemic. Higher rates of use of telehealth are now standard in many practices since the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic.

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Health Populi

JUNE 6, 2021

On the consumer demand side, patients’ growing use of telehealth in the COVID-19 pandemic along with more frequent digital contacts with health plans bolstered member satisfaction, discovered by t he J.D. As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, 60% of providers told BDO they are adding new digital projects in 2021.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 27, 2022

COVID-19 transformed the delivery of care, making the use of telehealth tools highly beneficial – and a priority area for research. Also recently, you published a study that found the unprecedented availability of telehealth during the COVID-19 pandemic did not lead to an increase in unnecessary primary care sessions.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

As the public health emergency of COVID is ending, state regulations are changing and fortunately telepsychiatry will still exist as part of a hybrid model. When telepsychiatry was first in higher demand due to COVID, it is estimated in February 2019, 4% of survey respondents indicated using telehealth services.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 18, 2022

Norden is particularly passionate about funding companies focused on the Medicaid population – a traditionally tricky and often ignored area. What has been one digital health investment trend during the COVID-19 pandemic, and why is it important? Worse yet, COVID-19 has exacerbated mental and behavioral health issues.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

View Point Health, based in Lawrenceville, Georgia, is a community behavioral health agency serving individuals with Medicaid and uninsured and under-insured individuals. As such, it has limited resources to purchase new equipment and devices for telemedicine and also experiences limited functionality and features in its existing technology.

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HIT Consultant

APRIL 4, 2023

Q1 Funding Soars, But 2023 May Struggle to Catch Up to 2019 Q1 2023 U.S. If funding for the next three quarters matches the average funding across the prior three quarters, 2023 is on pace for the lowest level of annual funding since 2019. digital health funding closed with $3.4B across 132 deals, with an average deal size of $25.9M.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 22, 2021

TRU Community Care, based in Lafayette, Colorado, had a vision for incorporating a telehealth/remote patient monitoring program: to meet the needs of patients in the new Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services "Seriously Ill Population" (SIP) program. THE PROBLEM. Twitter: @SiwickiHealthIT. Email the writer: bsiwicki@himss.org.

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

COVID-19 forced healthcare organizations to make a huge leap forward in their digital transformation roadmaps. – Investment in the digital health space in the first half of 2021 reached nearly $15 billion , surpassing 2020 and doubling the amount in 2019. Larry English, President & cofounder of Centric Consulting.

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

As the COVID-19 pandemic has proved, having sufficient hospital bed capacity can mean the difference between life or death. In 2019, nearly 30 million people across the U.S. Even in large cities like Houston, hospital closures can lead to hospital deserts. Hospital Bed Deserts. visited an HRSA health center.

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