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. " Finally, prior to CMS loosening telemedicine policy for the pandemic, reimbursement was a concern. NextGen and Zoom for Healthcare both were proposed as telemedicine vendors.

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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. billion in alleged losses.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 24, 2021

An independent study commissioned by a pediatric virtual care company found that 92% of pediatricians and clinicians believe that telemedicine will remain part of health practices in the future. More than half of patients use a mobile app on their smartphone for telemedicine visits. ON THE RECORD. ON THE RECORD. Twitter: @kjercich.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 12, 2021

"We first received word about this back in February 2020," explained Kennedy, who is speaker pro tempore of the Rhode Island House of Representatives. Telemedicine, on the other hand, was a much bigger hit – something in which Kennedy takes pride. As a multi-decade legislator, Rhode Island Rep. million, she said.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 5, 2021

In a recent study, researchers examined data from nearly 150,000 unique patients who scheduled telemedicine visits from March 16 to May 11, 2020. In this study, older patients, Asian patients, Medicaid users and non-English speakers were less likely to complete telehealth visits.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 22, 2022

Meanwhile, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services' Center for Program Integrity also announced that it has taken administrative actions against more than 50 healthcare providers alleged to be involved in similar schemes. Polite, Jr. in a statement. billion, according to the department. billion in alleged fraud. ON THE RECORD.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 28, 2020

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. Mostly, Sun River Health's telemedicine services met the needs of the HIV, Medically Assisted Treatment patients. THE PROBLEM.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 24, 2020

The Physicians Foundation surveyed 3,513 physicians in July 2020 on their perspectives on COVID-19 and how the pandemic has impacted practices and patients. The two impacts impact most physicians as a result of COVID-19 have been experiencing a reduction in income (55%) and increasing the use of telemedicine in the practice (52%).

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 5, 2021

In 2018 and 2019, 36% of the organization's transplanted population were Medicaid and others were in rural areas with poor access to local care, necessitating travel to the center for routine or acute care and follow-up. There are many vendors of telemedicine technology and services on the health IT market today. THE PROBLEM.

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HIT Consultant

JULY 17, 2023

Cessation of PHE telehealth, prescribing, and mental health access exceptions could impact the Medicaid population the most. Twenty-one percent of Medicaid enrollees have mild, moderate, or severe SUD, compared to 16% of commercially insured individuals. And as of the latest data, 7.3% And as of the latest data, 7.3%

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 2, 2023

To explore the efficacy of primary care telehealth, a recent Epic Research study examined the frequency of in-person physician visits that followed 18,636,522 primary care telemedicine appointments. "We found that patients covered by Medicaid and Medicare had the highest in-person follow-up rates," they said.

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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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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 time, Maimonides was not engaged in any telemedicine or other digital health initiatives. "Fortunately, we had learned a great deal from our RFI process at the start of 2020," he added.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 12, 2021

"New Yorkers have adapted throughout 2020, but it is time to push telehealth to the next level in New York State and fully integrate it into our existing healthcare system. Cuomo's proposal would make permanent many flexibilities that are currently in place during the COVID-19 public health emergency.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

It would also explicitly exclude audio-only telephone services from the definition of telemedicine, including with regard to insurance coverage. Somewhat confusingly, Edwards was among the cosponsors of the 2020 law that extended payment parity for telehealth coverage in the first place. HB 602 is cosponsored by Reps.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 2, 2020

The American Telemedicine Association on Wednesday issued a response to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services final rule regarding a permanent expansion to some Medicare telehealth services. Greg Abbott ordered payment parity for telehealth under state-regulated health plans until the end of 2020, and Democratic Wisconsin Gov.

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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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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 14, 2024

News and Studies Follow-up rates for telehealth and in-office visits have remained consistent since 2020 , according to analysis from Epic Research. That said, telehealth visits are more likely to result in follow-ups at the 7-, 30- and 9-day mark, especially in OB/GYN, podiatry, and internal medicine.

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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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HIT Consultant

AUGUST 17, 2023

They also serve a majority of Medicaid and non-insured patients, which makes it harder to keep the doors open on maternity wards, whose cost of upkeep can be substantial. Incentivizing Medicaid capture. LONG-TERM SOLUTIONS Many longer-term solutions start with using telemedicine and digital health services. Has grown in the U.S.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 22, 2020

During the opening keynote of the 2020 American Telemedicine Association conference, ATA CEO Ann Mond Johnson pointed to the transformative effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on telehealth. "This health emergency has launched telehealth" to new heights, Johnson said. But that won't be enough, said Johnson.

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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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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 17, 2023

CCA specializes in managing complex care for individuals dually eligible for Medicare and Medicaid, as well as those who narrowly miss the threshold for Medicaid. Telemedicine has grown to become an important part of delivering on CCA's mission. Why has telemedicine become a priority for the organization?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 21, 2021

Healthcare IT News interviewed Sean Cavanaugh, who serves as the chief policy officer and chief commercial officer at Aledade, whose technology offerings include population health and telemedicine. What do providers need to do with what appears to be the new normal of telemedicine? It does not seem like it will be going away.

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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. According to the U.S. Telepsychiatry in particular has benefited from these changes.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 31, 2021

Stay-at-home orders put in place in March 2020 required New York City-based Goodwill NYNJ's offices to close. Early in the pandemic, New York State began allowing providers to bill Medicaid for telehealth services, which greatly impacted Goodwill NYNJ's ability to meet the needs of its mental illness population.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 26, 2020

"It wasn't perfect, but we did learn a lot," said Rachael-Linn Spooner, vice president of clinical transformation at Northwell Health, in an American Telemedicine Association 2020 deep-dive session on employing telehealth for primary care. "This was part of a population health strategy," said Dr.

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Health Populi

JUNE 3, 2020

There’s been a flurry of research into this question since the hockey-stick growth of telemedicine visits were evident in March 2020, just days after the World Health Organization uttered the “P-word:” pandemic. ” in a May 2020 report out of the company’s consumer survey. Some 3 in 4 U.S.

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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

AUGUST 7, 2023

The bill makes permanent telehealth flexibilities that were first introduced in the CARES Act of 2020 in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, flexibilities that were set to expire at the end of December 2024 along with other telehealth extension provisions.

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

It enabled mental health providers to quickly shift to delivering care online when social distancing entered everyone’s vocabulary in early 2020. get their health coverage through Medicaid, this is absolutely essential to ensure healthcare equity. Considering that more than one-third of children in the U.S.

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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 News - Telehealth

JANUARY 4, 2021

The year 2020 has been a year unlike any other year in our history. Hospitals faced significant losses in 2020 due to COVID-19 as elective procedures were put on hold and out-patient department visits reduced dramatically. In the US, as federal aid waned, for-profit hospital margins have been extremely strained in 2020.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 19, 2022

It enabled mental health providers to quickly shift to delivering care online when social distancing entered everyone’s vocabulary in early 2020. get their health coverage through Medicaid, this is absolutely essential to ensure healthcare equity. Considering that more than one-third of children in the U.S.

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HIT Consultant

AUGUST 3, 2022

million—between February 2020 and November 2021, with decreasing employment nearly every month. Medicaid reimbursement, which comprises the largest share of nursing home reimbursement, has not kept pace, resulting in SNFs and medical providers assuming the burden of those costs. . million to 1.35 As of late February 2022, 35.9%

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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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Health Populi

MAY 20, 2020

The findings were published in a May 2020 report , detailing study findings among 2,533 U.S. adults polled in early April 2020. PwC explored how COVID-19 is influencing consumers’ health care behaviors in survey research conducted in early April by the Health Research Institute.

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