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OIG, in a Departure, Approves Hospital Provision of Nurse Practitioner Services

McBrayer Law Blog

Posted In Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) , Health Care Law , Hospitals , Nurse practitioners (NP) , Office of Inspector General of the United States Department of Health and Human Services (OIG) Traditionally, the Office of the Inspector General for the U.S.

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Remote patient monitoring and virtual care – a paradigm shift

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

In this regularly updated special collection, we explore how hospitals and health systems are rolling out RPM initiatives: where they're seeing hurdles, which use cases are most successful, how they're getting help from their vendors, what policy and regulatory imperatives may be shaping the future of virtual care, and much more.

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9amHealth Raises $9.5M Series A Extension Led by The Cigna Group Ventures to Expand to Employers Nationwide

Healthcare IT Today

After Being Selected by Leading PBMs, Benefits Navigators, and Health Plans as the Virtual Cardiometabolic Provider of Choice, 9amHealth Increases the Round’s Total to $25M 9amHealth , the leading virtual provider for cardiometabolic health, announced it has raised $9.5 million in a Series A extension round today.

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A Christmas Miracle! Congress Agrees on a New Coronavirus Relief Bill

McBrayer Law Blog

Posted In Coronavirus , Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act , COVID-19 After nine months of negotiations and stalemates, Congress finally reached an agreement for a $900 billion relief package on December 20, 2020.

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Broadband is the Achilles' heel of telehealth

Healthcare It News

Connected Health Government & Policy Patient Engagement Population Health Telehealth The fate of virtual care adoption is tied to the fate of broadband expansion. "Broadband is now revered as the super-social determinant of health because it has a direct impact on all of the other social determinants of health."

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Frost & Sullivan's Top 10 predictions for healthcare in 2021

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Financial/Revenue Cycle Management Population Health Precision Medicine Telehealth Workforce From vaccines to virtual care, enterprise imaging to precision medicine, these are the growth areas that will shape the direction of healthcare, this year and beyond. Remote monitoring tools and mobile health apps and services took center stage.

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The 2020 CARES Act: Caring About Substance Abuse Treatment Document ("SUD") Privacy

McBrayer Law Blog

representing 20% of the world's known COVID-19 deaths, and the most deaths of any country. [1] 1] More > Tags: behavioral health , CARES Act , coronavirus , Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act , COVID-19 , documentation , Mental health , Opioid Epidemic , Part 2 , Substance Use Disorder , SUD.