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Telehealth, Right Here, Right Now: Calling on Congress to Vote for America’s Health and Well-being

Health Populi

That was, in fact, the name of a research paper I wrote on behalf of the California Health Care Foundation in 2008. ” Focus in on just heart failure: its the leading cause of hospitalization among older adults in the U.S. , and Medicare enrollees with heart failure have the highest readmission rate of any condition.

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How the Latest Pandemic Relief Bill Effects Telehealth

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The bill did add critical access Hospitals (CAHs) and small, rutral hospitals with less than 50 beds to the list of sites eligible for reimbursement through Medicare for certain telehealth services, opening the door to the expansion of telehealth services in parts of the country where access is a challenge.