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Telehealth billing guide highlights complexities of use

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The Center for Connected Health Policy has published a 21-page guide intended to help providers with telehealth-based Medicare and Medicaid reimbursements. Asynchronous virtual visits are helping reduce the burdens on primary care providers at Prisma Health, while also enabling easier access, convenience and speed to care for patients.

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Add Behavioral Data to Social Determinants For Better Patient Understanding

Health Populi

The Sage team explains that, by layering knowledge about peoples’ behaviors, beliefs, and attitudes on top of the traditional SDOH factors, health care providers can mash-up SBDoH – “socio-behavioral determinants of health” — your new acronym to add to your growing list of healthcare ABCs.

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Can the U.S. Improve Health System Performance with Digital Health Tools? Pondering A Big Question for #HIMSS21

Health Populi

This will be the case, especially in the wake of COVID-19, a K-recovery that has exacerbated income inequality for those health citizens at the lower-end of the economic spectrum, and so many health care providers now facing a new wave of an “unvaccinated epidemic” of coronavirus patients in hospital beds.

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The Healthcare and Macro-Economic Impacts of Living with Endemic COVID – Listening to Fitch

Health Populi

While telehealth and virtual care stood up quickly in 2020, questions remain about how it will/can persist in terms of funding, regulation, and business models. We also expect innovation to come out of pharma and biotech labs, and who will pay for new-new therapies?

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The Biggest Threat to Our Health Isn’t the Next Pandemic or Cancer…It’s Climate Change

Health Populi

This profoundly moving case study graphically illustrates but one human example of the role of the environment on human health, which is the basis for WHO’s report and call-to-action. There are many climate-sensitive health risks, shown in the first diagram from WHO’s report.

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The ROI on Virtual Care – Thinking About Value and Future Prospects With the AMA

Health Populi

To help us think this through, just in time, the AMA has published a report on the Return on Health: Moving Beyond Dollars and Cents in Realizing the Value of Virtual Care. Those virtual care stories were based on interviews with a range of providers and industry representatives, shown in the graphic labelled “collaborators.”

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Telehealth Update from the AMA – Setting the Context for ATA 2022

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Follow the meeting on Twitter at #ATA2022. I know I’ll be paying close attention, keen to learn from the updates and insights. Kudos and thanks to the AMA for conducting this important research.