Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 25, 2020

Social distancing is a key factor in reducing the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus, and tele-visits can be a safe and secure means for providers to deliver certain types of care for their patients. The area continues to face an increase in severe COVID-19 cases that require hospitalization – overwhelming many hospitals.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

A frequently discussed consequence of the COVID-19 crisis is the uptick in reliance on telehealth, with both patients and clinicians pivoting quickly to virtual care in order to minimize in-person contact. "COVID-19 has forced people into virtual mediums," Flannery continued. "Companies like ours.

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Kaiser Health News

JANUARY 28, 2022

A three-judge federal appeals court panel in Connecticut has likely ended an 11-year fight against a frustrating and confusing rule that left hundreds of thousands of Medicare beneficiaries without coverage for nursing home care, and no way to challenge a denial. But it can have serious repercussions.

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American Medical Compliance

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, there has been an influx of doctor burnout. A recent study published in the medical journal Mayo Clinic Proceedings found that physician burnout increased during the first two years of the COVID-19 pandemic following a six-year drop that ended in 2020. doctors was 62.8%.

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Health Populi

MARCH 12, 2020

Let’s travel to Shanghai, China where, “the covid-19 epidemic has brought millions of new patients online. The WeDoctor app, part of Tencent, deployed 20,000 online doctors donating time for free. COVID-19 accelerated telemedicine adoption, the story goes, being accessed mainstream through major regions of China.

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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. The COVID-19 pandemic has also taught clinicians and health care administrators about the value of data at the ready.

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Medisys Compliance

DECEMBER 23, 2022

The internet is ringing with the news of the CMS Updates Final rule for the 2023 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule. The finalized 2023 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule was announced by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) on November 1 2022. Medicare reimbursement for telehealth services.

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Verisys

MAY 13, 2024

Here is a round up of bad actors: Doctor sentenced to 10 years in prison for unlawfully dispensing controlled substances ( Full Story ) Doctor Convicted for $5.4M Here is a round up of bad actors: Doctor sentenced to 10 years in prison for unlawfully dispensing controlled substances ( Full Story ) Doctor Convicted for $5.4M

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

After declining for six years, the burnout rate among doctors began to spike with the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to research by the American Medical Association, Mayo Clinic and Stanford Medicine. Though occupational burnout among doctors is higher relative to the U.S. Reforming Medicare payment.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 26, 2021

The surge in teleconsultations came after it partnered with the Philippines Department of Health and the National Privacy Commission to deliver free telemedicine services, which helped in easing hospital occupancy and preventing the spread of COVID-19. THE LARGER TREND. million patients over the past year. ON THE RECORD.

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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. Patients in the U.S.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Despite HHS instituting waivers making tele-ICU services payable under Medicare, RICU says it has been unable to expand its services to more hospitals – because the agency disallows payment for critical-care telemedicine if the physician is located outside the United States. hospitals via telemedicine, has sued the U.S.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 13, 2021

A group of legislators from the House Ways and Means Health Subcommittee have introduced a bill aimed at temporarily extending telehealth flexibilities established during the COVID-19 pandemic. "The COVID-19 pandemic has shifted how rural Americans receive health care in fundamental ways," said Rep.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 12, 2021

Telehealth, according to the federal government, has been "transformational" to the delivery of healthcare and "underpinned much" of its COVID-19 response. Since last year March, over 16 million patients have received over 80 million COVID-19 telehealth services under the Medicare Benefits Schedule (MBS).

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 20, 2023

A bipartisan group of legislators has reintroduced the Creating Opportunities Now for Necessary and Effective Care Technologies for Health Act – first introduced in 2016 – to expand opportunities and coverage for telehealth through Medicare. This is the second time the bill has been reintroduced. Mike Thompson (D-Calif.)

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 19, 2020

One of the biggest health IT related news items to come out was the announcement by Vice President Mike Pence that HHS was issuing a regulation to permit doctors to practice across state lines. State Medical Licensure is something that has baffled many of us that have worked in healthcare.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 13, 2022

"They did so through a circular scheme of kickbacks and bribes paid to doctors and solicited from marketing companies, pharmacies, and providers of durable medical equipment." Law enforcement agencies have ramped up the pressure on telehealth fraud, particularly amid the COVID-19 pandemic. " WHY IT MATTERS.

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Bill of Health

MARCH 15, 2022

has adopted myriad policies that limit the supply of doctors despite the fact that there aren’t enough. For instance, in 2019, the AMA urged Congress to remove the very caps on Medicare-funded residency slots it helped create. By Leah Pierson. Recently, Derek Thompson pointed out in the Atlantic that the U.S.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 12, 2021

Then COVID-19 hit. Q: What are the benefits of RPM during and beyond the COVID-19 pandemic, especially among underserved, uninsured or Medicaid populations, where already there are disproportionately high rates of chronic disease and other barriers to care? Then came COVID-19.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 30, 2020

"Much of this transformation is dependent on temporary flexibilities extended to health systems and providers that are limited to the duration of the COVID-19 public health emergency declaration," the letter read. introduced legislation earlier this month to codify Medicare reimbursement of virtual care at FQHCs and RHCs.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Using de-identified patient data from Amwell, Teladoc Health, MDLive and Doctor On Demand, the CDC found that about 1.6 Perhaps unsurprisingly, the proportion of visits related to COVID-19 symptoms increased during the last three weeks of March 2020, from 5.5% "Overall, an estimated 41% to 42% of U.S.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 23, 2020

Physicians are changing the patterns of their practice because of the COVID-19 pandemic, with nearly half of them using telehealth to treat patients, up from just 18% in 2018. The 2018 survey had indicated that telemedicine use among physicians was more prominent among younger doctors. WHY IT MATTERS. ” ON THE RECORD.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 21, 2022

Australia offers telehealth subsidy for COVID-19 antiviral prescription. The Australian government is temporarily subsidising the cost of long teleconsultations for the prescription of COVID-19 antiviral medications.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 24, 2021

The coronavirus pandemic has changed so many aspects of American health care for so many people, including doctors. Finally, check out Association of Race and Ethnicity and Medicare Program Type With Ambulatory Care Access and Quality Measures. This is not your typical edition of the Journal of the American Medical Association.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 1, 2021

Grimm wrote in a statement on Friday that the quick pivot to telemedicine amidst the COVID-19 pandemic makes oversight, transparency, accountability and program integrity all the more important. OIG Principal Deputy Inspector General Christi A. "In many cases, the criminals did not bill for the sham telehealth visit.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 16, 2020

House of Representatives on Thursday aims to ensure telehealth is able to continue to build on its potential in the years ahead, by making permanent some policies enacted during the pandemic and protecting Medicare beneficiaries' ability to engage in virtual care. WHY IT MATTERS. THE LARGER TREND. THE LARGER TREND. ON THE RECORD.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Department of Justice announced this week that a Florida laboratory owner had pleaded guilty for his role in a $73 million Medicare kickback scheme. According to the agency , the conspiracy involved paying a telemedicine company to arrange for doctors to authorize medically unnecessary genetic testing. WHY IT MATTERS. THE LARGER TREND.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 2, 2020

"The COVID-19 pandemic has allowed for us to make rapid progress on expanding access to telehealth so children and families across the country, especially those in rural and underserved communities, face fewer barriers to accessing medical care," said Rep. healthcare system." Mike Thompson, D-Calif., at the time.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 12, 2020

Adrian Smith, R-Nebraska, and Ann Kuster, D-New Hampshire – would allow Medicare to enter into voluntary, value-based arrangements with medical groups to provide acute care to patients in skilled nursing facilities using a combination of telehealth and on-site staff. The RUSH Act – introduced in companion bills from Sens.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 4, 2023

In addition, the project will form a new digital health workforce by training doctors, nurses and allied health professionals in both hospital and primary care. This free service is being offered to patients at risk of hospitalisation, aged care residents, and COVID-19 patients with chronic comorbidities.

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Kaiser Health News

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Finding the best private Medicare drug or medical insurance plan among dozens of choices is tough enough without throwing misleading sales tactics into the mix. The problems are especially prevalent during Medicare’s open-enrollment period, which began Oct. “You’re not from Medicare,” Heimer told her.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Among the allegations are that Wolfe and her conspirators submitted well over $400 million in illegal durable medical equipment claims to Medicare and the Civilian Health and Medical Program of the Department of Veterans, relying on the guise of "telemedicine" to explain the unusually high volume of claims.

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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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American Medical Compliance

AUGUST 1, 2022

In Spring 2022’s Semiannual Report to Congress (SAR), the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Inspector General (HHS-OIG) reported that nearly $3 billion had been misspent on Medicare and Medicaid services. HHS Examines Medicare Spending and COVID-19 Tests. Increased Telehealth Services.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 6, 2020

As COVID-19 continues to hammer the U.S., "Through telemedicine, we pushed the frontlines to locations far from our hospitals and doctor's offices," said Mann. "Medicare announced its coverage at noon, and we saw our first [Medicare] patient at 5 that day."

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

These may be technologies used from the home or that a doctor uses to improve or support healthcare services. Telehealth providers saw a rapid rise in the need for remote services with the initial spread of the COVID-19 pandemic in early 2020. This allowed telehealth to be used to prevent the spread of COVID-19.

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American Medical Compliance

AUGUST 1, 2022

In Spring 2022’s Semiannual Report to Congress (SAR), the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Inspector General (HHS-OIG) reported that nearly $3 billion had been misspent on Medicare and Medicaid services. HHS Examines Medicare Spending and COVID-19 Tests. Increased Telehealth Services.

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