Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 31, 2020

To further support clinicians during the COVID-19 public health emergency, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has extended the deadline for COVID-19 related 2020 Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) Extreme and Uncontrollable Circumstances Exception applications to February 1, 2021.

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Health Populi

MAY 21, 2020

However, as patients continue to be concerned about exposure to COVID-19, 3 in 5 are concerned about being at-risk to the virus in their doctor’s office, according to research from the Alliance of Community Health Plans (ACHP) and AMCP , the Academy of Managed Care Pharmacy. ACHP and AMCP polled 1,263 U.S.

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Medisys Compliance

MAY 19, 2022

During the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency (PHE), reimbursements for telehealth continue to evolve. The federal government, state Medicaid programs, and private insurers have expanded coverage for virtual health care services. See this list of telehealth services from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 19, 2020

COVID-19 spurred Houston-based AccessHealth to quickly scale up its telemedicine offerings, just as it did with most other health systems nationwide. Staff members were unsure if Medicare and Medicaid would honor the prospective payment-system rate. COVID-19 testing, treatment and prevention measures to stop community spread.

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Health Populi

JULY 13, 2020

“The COVID-19 pandemic…has highlighted like never before the pitfalls of paying for healthcare based on the number of patients seen and services rendered,” a Modern Healthcare article asserted in mid-June 2020. billion a day in March 2020 based on declining patient volumes. In other words, the U.S. ” This $1.4

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Bill of Health

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Despite the important enactment in 2010 of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), which increases access to care by expanding Medicaid eligibility and protecting insurance coverage of people with pre-existing health conditions and disabilities, more than 25 million people remain uninsured. COVID-19 and the U.S.

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Health Populi

JULY 30, 2020

it’s clear that COVID-19 has wreaked a greater mortality and morbidity impact on people of color than on white adults. A new Gallup-West Health poll found that the coronavirus also concerns more non-white Americans than whites when it comes to the cost of health care and medicines to deal with the effects of COVID-19.

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Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

In 2020, the agency said , about six in 10 individuals throughout the country were offered access to their patient portal, and nearly 40 percent accessed their record at least once. About a third of patient portal users downloaded their online medical record in 2020, nearly double the proportion of 2017. WHY IT MATTERS. ON THE RECORD.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

At the onset of COVID-19, COPE Community Services, a Tucson, Arizona-based nonprofit behavioral and physical healthcare organization serving more than 15,000 clients in Pima County, was unprepared to have its staff work remotely. In April 2020, the National Council for Behavioral Health discovered through its survey of 880 U.S.

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Director of Healthcare Strategy, LexisNexis Risk Solutions During the peak of the Covid-19 pandemic, over 10 million Americans enrolled in Medicaid – nearly a 14% increase from the beginning of 2020. A month before the public health emergency ended on May 11, 2023, 87 million individuals were enrolled in Medicaid.

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Kaiser Permanente

JANUARY 1, 2022

Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) have served as critical supports to children, pregnant women, parents, seniors, and individuals with disabilities – covering 80 million individuals during the COVID-19 pandemic. Since February 2020, Medicaid enrollment has grown sharply to cover an additional 9.9

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Health Populi

MAY 20, 2020

are self-rationing care in the era of COVID-19 by cutting spending on health care visits and prescription drugs. PwC explored how COVID-19 is influencing consumers’ health care behaviors in survey research conducted in early April by the Health Research Institute. adults polled in early April 2020.

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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. "The spring of 2020 represented the first time in US history that such a large proportion of Americans had wide access to telehealth services. WHY IT MATTERS.

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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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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

The brief, which examined oversight efforts as of January and February 2020, stemmed from a survey of Medicaid directors from 37 states, as well as structured interviews with relevant stakeholders. In response to COVID-19, patients have regularly turned to telemedicine for behavioral health needs. WHY IT MATTERS.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

households entered 2020 in the best financial shape they’d been in years, based on new Census data released earlier this week. By September 2020, about 36 million people in the U.S. Just weeks into the COVID-19 pandemic, cracks in the U.S. knew someone who died from COVID-19. In terms of income, U.S.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

A Health Affairs study found that telemedicine use during the COVID-19 pandemic was lower in communities with higher rates of poverty – suggesting that the industry must address the digital divide in order to ensure widespread access to virtual care. During the COVID-19 period of the study, researchers found that 30.1%

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 25, 2021

representatives has reintroduced a bill aimed at expanding access to telehealth beyond the COVID-19 pandemic. The Protecting Access to Post-COVID-19 Telehealth Act of 2021 legislation was introduced this past week by Rep. A bipartisan group of U.S. Mike Thompson, D-Calif., cosponsored by Reps. Peter Welch, D-Vt.,

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 1, 2020

When the United States reported its first COVID-19 case in January 2020, the Medical University of South Carolina activated its telehealth response – months before swathes of other health systems rapidly pivoted to virtual care.

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Health Law Advisor

AUGUST 14, 2023

During the COVID-19 PHE, CMS issued temporary waivers, including a waiver of the “location requirement” of the In-Office Ancillary Services (“IOAS”) exception. 3] As indicated above, the temporary waiver that allowed mailing or home delivery of DME during the COVID-19 PHE expired May 11, 2023 and is no longer available.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 2, 2020

The Telehealth Improvement for Kids’ Essential Services, or TIKES, Act of 2020 would require the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to issue guidance to states about how to increase access to telehealth under Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program. Blunt Rochester in a statement.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 15, 2023

As an FQHC, 75% of patients are enrolled in Medicaid or Medicare; another 7% are uninsured. THE PROBLEM Prior to 2020 and the COVID-19 pandemic, there were federal and state policies in place that discouraged FQHCs like Ryan Health from adopting telehealth services due to payment restrictions.

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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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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 12, 2021

"COVID-19 has changed not only the way we live, but the way healthcare providers support their patients, especially in regard to mental health," said Cuomo in a statement. Cuomo's proposal would make permanent many flexibilities that are currently in place during the COVID-19 public health emergency.

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HIT Consultant

APRIL 11, 2023

What You Should Know: Audio-only telehealth visits for both primary care and mental health services remained common at safety net clinics in California since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a new RAND Corporation study. Key findings of the report include: The number of primary care visits increased by 8.5%

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Bill of Health

JANUARY 19, 2022

COVID-19 antivirals must not affect HIV drug supply. Anticancer Drugs Approved by the US Food and Drug Administration From 2009 to 2020 According to Their Mechanism of Action. Raising Medicaid Rebates For Drugs With Accelerated Approval. A full posting of abstracts/summaries of these articles may be found on our?

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

By the autumn of 2020, U.S. physicians grew concerned that patients who were avoiding visits to doctor’s offices were missing care for chronic conditions, discussed in in Delayed and Forgone Health Care for N onelderly Adults during the COVID-19 Pandemic from the Urban Institute.

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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. In April 2020, UPMC Children's received funding from a telehealth program of the FCC. THE PROBLEM. MEETING THE CHALLENGE. " RESULTS. " USING FCC AWARD FUNDS.

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HIT Consultant

AUGUST 8, 2022

The data represent the privately insured population, including Medicare Advantage and excluding Medicare Fee-for-Service and Medicaid. – The rise in telehealth utilization in May could have been due to the growth in the number of COVID-19 cases as reported by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 4, 2021

The year 2020 has been a year unlike any other year in our history. By the end of 2021, about 4 billion COVID-19 vaccine doses will be delivered globally. Hospitals faced significant losses in 2020 due to COVID-19 as elective procedures were put on hold and out-patient department visits reduced dramatically.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic forced consumers to define what were basic or essential needs to them; for most people, those items have been hygiene products, food, and connectivity to the Internet. The reality even before the coronavirus crisis emerged in early 2020 was that U.S. As the COVID-19 crisis led to large parts of the U.S.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 12, 2021

At the start of 2020, widespread adoption of remote patient monitoring was still in the distance. Then COVID-19 hit. Add COVID-19 to the mix, and we're now witnessing higher rates of infection and death from COVID-19 among African Americans, Hispanics and rural residents. Then came COVID-19.

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Health Populi

JUNE 27, 2022

As a result, commercial healthcare spending fell in 2020, rebounding in 2021. 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. compared with 941.9

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Many aspects, both technological and organizational, feed into success at CareMax, which treats people on Medicaid. As a bonus, you’ll hear an amazing story about how Wright set up a COVID-19 test center in just a few days in March of 2020! Setting expectations is key to improvement.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 14, 2021

Technology aimed at blurring the lines between at-home care and in-hospital services has taken on a renewed spotlight amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, when patients and providers have sought to avoid potential spread. Hospital at home initiatives have benefited from both public and private support.

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Bill of Health

MARCH 25, 2022

Biomarker qualification at the European Medicines Agency: a review of biomarker qualification procedures from 2008 to 2020. Medicaid Expenditures and Estimated Rebates on Line Extension Drugs, 2010-2018. 2022 Feb 19. Emergency Use Authorizations of COVID-19-Related Medical Products. Clin Pharmacol Ther. 2022 Feb 9.

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Healthcare Law Blog

JANUARY 31, 2023

Overview Digital health services have exploded since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, and behavioral health services have seen large increases in utilization. Venture capital funding for digital mental health services for children and teens was close to $1 billion in 2021, more than double from 2020. Finance (July 18, 2022).

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