Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released Friday found a 154% increase in telehealth visits during the last week of March 2020, compared with the same time period in 2019. " This was 50% higher than the approximately 1 million encounters during the same period in 2019.

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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.

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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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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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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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Kaiser Health News

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

The penalties — a 1% reduction in Medicare payments over 12 months — are based on the experiences of Medicare patients discharged from the hospital between July 2018 and the end of 2019, before the pandemic began in earnest. The total amount of the penalties is determined by how much each hospital bills Medicare.

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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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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

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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Healthcare Law Today

JANUARY 20, 2022

While the opioid crisis has been a declared public health emergency (PHE) since October 26, 2017, overdose deaths remain at an all-time high and have only been exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. COVID-19: DEA and SAMHSA Guidance for Treating Opioid Use Disorders via Telehealth. The New Rule and the SUPPORT Act.

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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 Care Law Brief

APRIL 3, 2023

On Friday, March 31, 2023, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released the Calendar Year (CY) 2024 Medicare Advantage (MA) Capitation Rates and Part C and Part D Payment Policies ( Rate Announcement ). 1395w-23): Medicare Advantage Organizations (MAOs) are paid a base rate by CMS. Risk Adjustment.

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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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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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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 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 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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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 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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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 19, 2022

It is Brooklyn's tertiary care hub serving diverse communities with large Medicaid, Medicare and uninsured populations. "At the end of 2019, my team's commitment to the medical center was that we would research available solutions and pilot each of the four target virtual care models in 2020," Cimino recalled.

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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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Innovaare Compliance

JANUARY 19, 2021

It has become evident by changes to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Star Rating formulas over the past several years—and especially with changes implemented for the 2021 Plan Year—that member experience and medication adherence is of utmost importance to the CMS. Medicare Star Ratings 2021 Changes.

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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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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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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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Hall Render

JUNE 23, 2023

On June 5, 2023, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) implemented a national skilled nursing facility (“SNF”) probe and educate program (“SNF P&E Program”). CMS determined that SNFs had the highest improper payment rate of all Medicare Fee-for-Service providers. How Does the SNF P&E Program Work?

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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 Law Blog

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

CMS announced today a further extension until February 1, 2023, of the deadline for its publication of the long-awaited final rule on the use of extrapolation and the application of a fee-for-service adjuster (FFS Adjuster) in risk adjustment data validation (RADV) audits of Medicare Advantage organizations (MAOs). See 42 U.S.C. FOOTNOTES. [1]

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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

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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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 26, 2022

Prior to COVID-19 , the volume of diagnostic imaging examinations had been growing annually by >3% and hit 5.0bn in 2019. Arun joined Signify Research in 2019 as part of the Digital Health team focusing on EHR/EMR, integrated care technology, and telehealth. Increased diagnostic procedures being performed.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Since the COVID pandemic began, healthcare has never had further reach of accessibility. For example telehealth utilization increased 63x (in Medicare alone!) between the beginning of 2019 and the end of 2020. The following is a guest article by Mandy Fogle, Healthcare Value Engineering at Shift Technology.

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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.

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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 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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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

When elective procedures were paused and care was delayed or diverted in early 2020 in response to the initial COVID-19 surge , it had an immediate impact on utilization and ancillary activities like testing and imaging, diagnoses, treatment plans, etc. – Kidney disease diagnoses down 19%. Pandemic-Era Compliance Levels.

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 9, 2023

The Star Rating system, which measures the quality of care and member satisfaction in privately managed Medicare plans, helps consumers compare the benefits and costs of different plans. In December, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services issued a proposal to include KED as a Star Rating.

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