HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 15, 2022

In late September, the Senate Finance Committee released a bipartisan discussion draft bill that aims to address the nation’s crippling behavioral healthcare crisis by providing funding for 4,000 Medicare Graduate Medical Education psychiatry residencies over the next decade. Through telemedicine. About Kristi Sidel.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 26, 2021

Telemedicine provider Medgate saw a 170% increase in teleconsultations in Philippines last year, with an 80% case resolution rate. Our high case resolution rate is proof of telemedicine’s efficiency as a platform for delivering quality care,” said Medgate Philippines President Stavros Athanasiou in a statement.

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HIT Consultant

JULY 6, 2022

COVID has shown us that telemedicine is effective and easy to use. With providers and clinicians under increasing strain from staffing gaps and other issues, telemedicine is a valuable solution. While telemedicine use has leveled off somewhat since early 2020, it’s still seeing sustained interest from across the care continuum.

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Jane Sarashon

MAY 9, 2024

Some of the policies would add to the supply of licensed health care workers to provide telehealth services, and to bolster rural clinics and Federally Qualified Health Centers to offer (and be covered for) virtual care under Medicare.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 24, 2020

The Alliance for Integrated Care of New York (AICNY) oversees the healthcare needs of roughly 6,200 dually eligible Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD). There are a great many telemedicine technology and services vendors on the health IT market today. THE PROBLEM. ” PROPOSAL.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Telehealth Access for America is aimed at educating members of the public about the need to enact permanent legislation around virtual care services. American Telemedicine Association. It also offers users the chance to sign up for email updates about the campaign. American Hospital Association. Athenahealth. Included Health.

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Healthcare Law Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2023

The FY 2022 report highlighted a number of key enforcement initiatives including telemedicine fraud and exploitation, unnecessary COVID-19 testing and services along with fraudulently obtained COVID-19 relief funds, and opioid and prescription drug abuse. for every $1.00

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 30, 2019

The Friedwald Center, a 180-bed skilled nursing facility in New York City, wanted to bring in telemedicine to give its patients more immediate access to quality clinicians that are very understanding of acute care and acute situations. So the Friedwald Center started working with telemedicine vendor Call9 in March 2018. THE PROBLEM.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 21, 2022

According to a press release , the surgeon, 56-year-old Dr. Elemer Raffai, is accused of allegedly submitting false claims to Medicare in exchange for kickbacks from telemedicine companies. According to the indictment, which was unsealed this week, Raffai was paid by telemedicine companies for each consultation with a beneficiary.

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Medisys Compliance

APRIL 8, 2022

In this article, we briefly discussed these Medicare telehealth billing guidelines. Due to the provisions of the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2021, the CMS continues to evaluate the inclusion of telehealth services that were temporarily added to the Medicare telehealth services list during the COVID-19 PHE (Public Health Emergency).

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Prepare Now for Anticipated Changes to Medicare and Private Payer Rules. ” [i] “We have moved forward a decade in the use of telemedicine in this country, and it’s going to become and will remain an increasingly important part of physician practices going forward.” Anticipated New CMS Rules for Telehealth.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Department of Justice announced this past week that it was bringing criminal charges against 138 total defendants for their alleged participation in various healthcare fraud schemes, resulting in about $1.4 billion of that loss involved allegedly fraudulent claims related to telemedicine. billion in alleged losses. More than $1.1

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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% WHY IT MATTERS.

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Healthcare Law Today

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

On November 1, 2022, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) finalized new policies related to remote therapeutic monitoring (RTM) services reimbursed under the Medicare program. The six primary Medicare RTM codes are Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) codes 98975, 98976, 98977, 98978, 98980, and 98981.

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Health Law Advisor

MARCH 7, 2023

The proposed rules are more restrictive than the DEA emergency waivers under which providers conducted telemedicine prescribing for the last three years, but are less restrictive in comparison to the pre-PHE regulations applicable to telemedicine prescribing of controlled substances under the federal Controlled Substances Act (“CSA”).

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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 News - Telehealth

JANUARY 6, 2021

A wide-ranging study published this past week in the Journal of the American Medical Association found that older people, women, Black and Latinx individuals, and patients with lower household incomes were less likely to use video for telemedicine care during the early phase of the COVID-19 pandemic. " WHY IT MATTERS.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

The 29 members of the EHR Association shared concerns with ONC about upcoming deadlines for Certified EHR Technology deadlines given the complexity of needs specified in HTI-1 and beyond. That’s the highest that margins have been in about two years. Median hospital margins hit 5.2%

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Health Populi

MARCH 9, 2022

For those of you focused on serving Medicare or older patients, there are some important findings in the JLL study to add into your scenario planning assumptions. The post Thinking About Telehealth Through the Lens of Real Estate – Listening to JLL appeared first on HealthPopuli.com. ” she added. This week, the U.S.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

More than 85% of the patients served by Temple are covered by government programs, including Medicare and Medicaid. Patients dually eligible for both Medicare and Medicaid make up roughly half of the Medicare inpatient base. There are many vendors of telemedicine technology and services on the health IT market today.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 24, 2020

Eight percent of doctors have closed their practices as a result of COVID-19, tallying about 16,000 closed practices. 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%). consumers, conducted in August 2020.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 30, 2020

Signers pointed out that the authorities granted to the Department of Health and Human Services and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services are restricted to the public health emergency period triggered by COVID-19. introduced legislation earlier this month to codify Medicare reimbursement of virtual care at FQHCs and RHCs.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

An excepted benefit allows employers to finance additional medical care, like vision or dental coverage, according to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services FAQs for insurance agents and brokers, requiring Congress to amend previous public health and funding laws. In an announcement about the bipartisan bill, Rep.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 3, 2024

THE PROBLEM This was something staff was looking into even before COVID, as they were thinking about what was best for their patients and their families when it comes to being admitted to the hospital. " MEETING THE CHALLENGE The virtual ICU enables the virtual providers to interact with patients via a telemedicine cart.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 30, 2021

The act would expand coverage of Medicare telehealth services and make some COVID-19 telehealth flexibilities permanent, among other provisions. Access for Medicare beneficiaries. Questions about the future of telehealth regulations have endured ever since the federal government opted to relax some of them during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 11, 2023

The Kaiser Family Foundation recently looked at state trends with regard to expanding access to telehealth-based behavioral care during the pandemic and found that states see telemedicine as a key component of maintaining access to behavioral healthcare for Medicaid enrollees. WHY IT MATTERS. ON THE RECORD.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 2, 2021

B2B software comparison website Capterra has published the results of a study with over 1,000 Australians, detailing their perspectives and considerations about telehealth. According to Capterra’s survey findings, 92% of telemedicine users in Australia had experienced telemedicine for the first time during the pandemic.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 10, 2022

House of Representatives approved an omnibus spending bill late Wednesday night that extends temporary telehealth flexibilities under Medicare beyond the COVID-19 pandemic. Senate, several COVID-19-era telehealth policies will remain in place for about five months after the public health emergency ends. WHY IT MATTERS. The mammoth $1.5

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 29, 2020

The hurdles to implementing telemedicine programs among smaller practices are fourfold, said Nate Lacktman, chair of the national telemedicine and digital health industry team at Foley and Lardner. For smaller practices looking to prepare for ongoing telemedicine needs, Lacktman says there are opportunities to think creatively.

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Medisys Compliance

APRIL 30, 2024

Eligible Services for Telehealth Billing The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) maintains a list of services eligible for telehealth billing. Medicare, private insurance). Contact Medisys today at 888-720-8884 / info@medisysdata.com to learn more about our solutions for seamless telehealth anesthesia billing.

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Med-Net Compliance

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

A physician pleaded guilty in federal court to falsely certifying that products and tests were medically necessary for more than 2,000 Medicare and Medicaid patients in Missouri whom he never met or examined. The physician ordered durable medical equipment and genetic tests for 2,184 Medicare beneficiaries between March 2019 and April 2021.

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Med-Net Compliance

JULY 26, 2022

billion in alleged fraudulent telemedicine, cardiovascular and cancer genetic testing, and durable medical equipment (DME) schemes. Additionally, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), Center for Program Integrity (CPI), announced that it took administrative actions against 52 providers involved in similar schemes.

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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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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

These potentially avoidable hospitalizations roughly cost Medicare over $1 billion annually, not to mention the personal toll on a frail population and their loved ones. The standard of care should be about on-time and face-to-face (virtual or on-site) visits. Telemedicine can help fix this problem.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 6, 2021

Wautaga already had three inpatient teams and was looking for a telemedicine company to handle a fourth. Watauga Medical Center is a Medicare five-star-rated hospital and wanted a telehealth company that could provide the same high quality of care. " Dr. Lisa Kaufmann, Appalachian Regional Healthcare System. " MARKETPLACE.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

hospitals via telemedicine, has sued the U.S. 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.

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MedTrainer

JANUARY 12, 2024

The adoption of electronic health records (EHRs), telemedicine , and data analytics has brought about new challenges and opportunities. Medicare and Medicaid (1960s): The introduction of government-funded healthcare programs brought about increased scrutiny and regulation.

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