Digital Health Today

OCTOBER 16, 2019

This Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday (October 16-18) I will be in Boston covering the Connected Health Conference (a HIMSS event) for Digital Health Today. Above all, I'm looking forward to meeting other members of our Digital Health Today community at the conference! Please click HERE to connect with me if you plan to be there!

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Weaving these ideas together is my mission in preparing a session to deliver at the upcoming AHIP 2024 conference in June, I’m thinking a lot about the evolving nature of health insurance, plans, and the organizations that provide them. Retail health-meets-Medicare. Walmart launched a ten-year collaboration with Optum in late 2022.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 26, 2024

Innovation on Full Display at AdvaMed’s MedTech Conference. Colin Hung shared his learnings from the conference focused on advancing medical device technology. Read more… It’s Time to Combat “Instafraud” in Medicare Advantage. Read more… Advice for Women in Healthcare Leadership Roles.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 26, 2024

On an April 18 conference call with Optum Everycare CEO Jennifer Phalen, some employees of the company's virtual care division were told that their last date would be in July, according to a news report this week. The company also said that a substantial portion of Americans' protected data had been stolen in the cyberattack.

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Health Populi

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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Insulin Nation

JULY 23, 2019

I quickly realized my primary care doctor was not very knowledgeable of T1D and despite the often-disliked Medicare insurance I had, I was fortunate to find an endocrinologist who had studied at the world-renowned T1D Barbara Davis Center in Denver. As noted, I am on Medicare and I had to fight to get an OmniPod pump.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 19, 2024

John summarized a study in the American Journal of Managed Care highlighting how real-time interventional analytics reduced 30-day readmissions and Medicare spending per beneficiary for Penn Medicine affiliates. Read more… Healthcare IT Today Podcast : HLTH 2024 Conference Preview.

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Insulin Nation

JULY 17, 2015

Despite the committee’s title, much of the testimony came from young people affected by Type 1 diabetes as part of a lobbying effort to get Medicare to cover continuous glucose monitors (CGMs). I was surprised and troubled to learn that CGMs have been denied coverage under the Medicare program,” Senator Collins said at the hearing.

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Digital Health Wire

JUNE 14, 2023

Speaking at Goldman Sachs’ Global Healthcare Conference, the CEO of UnitedHealthcare’s Medicare business Tim Noel said that costs are on the rise due to elevated demand for outpatient procedures. The pent-up-demand narrative is back on the menu. Why is this important?

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 17, 2023

A big proponent of collecting and using data in health care, she is one of the first patients to attend the Health Datapalooza conferences. Watch the video for Von Raesfeld’s views on holistic care, why interpretive results are not always enough, what Medicare can do to help patients use data, and an ER story fraught with tension.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 2, 2021

in his opening remarks for a panel at the American Telemedicine Association's annual conference and expo this month. Emily Yoder, an analyst at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, said the agency has limited power to make telehealth-related changes. Tim Scott, R-S.C.,

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Despite newcomer inexperience and ensuing complications, the push to improve healthcare through digitization will open the door to more innovation in areas such as remote therapeutic monitoring , particularly since the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has steadily been approving new CPT billing codes for these services for several years.

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Clear Arch Health

OCTOBER 27, 2023

In addition to having a strong focus on the larger issues facing payers, and health plans such as Medicare Advantage (quality improvement, member acquisition/retention/satisfaction, profitability etc.), Ask about our remote care programs, specially designed for Medicare Advantage plans !

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Health Populi

JUNE 6, 2021

And second, the month features four weeks of sessions for the annual ATA Conference which kicked off last week on Tuesday 1stJune followed by more sessions on Thursday the 3rd. The ATA proceedings will continue Tuesday’s and Thursday’s for the remainder of June, concluding on Tuesday the 29th.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 5, 2023

The following is a guest article by Erin Rutzler, Vice President of Fraud, Waste, and Abuse at Cotiviti In Delaware, more than 250 Medicare patients underwent unnecessary genetic testing based on telehealth consultations that often lasted less than two minutes— costing Medicare thousands of dollars per patient.

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Digital Health Wire

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

The general idea behind the acquisition is also the title of its snazzy investor presentation : Creating the Premier Medicare Value-Based Care Platform. It focuses on capitated primary care for Medicare Advantage and Medicare (59k at-risk patients). Oak Street Health employs 600 primary care physicians across 169 clinics.

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Health Populi

MARCH 29, 2023

This week at the VIVE 2023 conference, the HLTH Foundation, collaborating with Ipsos, published a report on Techquity in 2023 , analyzing survey data collected from 212 respondents from 200 health care organizations. health care.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 7, 2023

This problem is only made worse by the silver tsunami of 10K baby boomers aging into Medicare coverage every day. At the recent Civitas Conference, we stopped to talk to all of you to see what you thought wasn’t being talked about enough. Catch up on what they said about AI at the conference.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 22, 2024

As the annual HLTH conference convenes this week in Las Vegas , numerous reports have been published to coincide with the meeting updating various aspects of technology, health care, providers and patients.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 11, 2020

Australian GPs using the PrimaryClinic practice management software by software provider Global Health can conduct remote video conference consultations with patients showing symptoms for COVID-19, the company recently announced.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 8, 2021

Advocates at the American Telemedicine Association's annual conference warned this past week that legislators need to step up. But the future is a bit murkier , with many experts saying that federal action is needed to sustain even a fraction of that momentum.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 22, 2020

During the opening keynote of the 2020 American Telemedicine Association conference, ATA CEO Ann Mond Johnson pointed to the transformative effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on telehealth. "This health emergency has launched telehealth" to new heights, Johnson said. But that won't be enough, said Johnson.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 24, 2021

In March 2020, federal regulators temporarily relaxed restrictions for telemedicine visits for Medicare patients, raising payments to the same level as in-person visits and reducing cost-sharing, among other changes. WHY IT MATTERS. ON THE RECORD.

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Xealth

MARCH 30, 2023

Amy Oliver, Marketing Manager Spring conference season is in full swing, and this year, my first event was ViVE in Nashville. They also set up a GoFundMe so that conference attendees could make donations. They also set up a GoFundMe so that conference attendees could make donations. My ViVE highlights: Patients before politics.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 11, 2021

They're not submitting a telehealth claim to Medicare. Instead, sophisticated criminal organizations are partnering with telemarketing companies and sometimes unscrupulous doctors to essentially cold call Medicare beneficiaries, get them online with a doctor. Email the writer: mike.miliard@himssmedia.com. HIMSS21 Coverage.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 29, 2023

Medicare Certification ASCs must sign a contract with Medicare and meet its Conditions for Coverage (CFC) to be paid. ASCs must also meet Medicare’s Conditions for Coverage. Medicare Payment Resources CMS implemented an Ambulatory Payment Classification-based payment methodology in 2008.

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Health Populi

JULY 23, 2019

This is CHPA’s 2019 Marketing Conference being held at the lovely historic Hotel du Pont in Wilmington, DE. For Best Buy, buying Great Call last year and Critical Signal Technologies last month, expanding means providing services for older people aging at-home, with potential collaborations with Medicare Advantage plans.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 5, 2020

In March, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services released new guidance regarding remote patient monitoring. Experience the education, innovation and collaboration of the HIMSS Global Health Conference & Exhibition… virtually. "That proactive care is really what you're trying to initiate," he said.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Despite newcomer inexperience and ensuing complications, the push to improve healthcare through digitization will open the door to more innovation in areas such as remote therapeutic monitoring , particularly since the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has steadily been approving new CPT billing codes for these services for several years.

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Digital Health Global

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Conferences and events generate an estimated 600,000 tons of trash per year in the U.S. Founded in 2020, DUOS connects Medicare beneficiaries and their caregivers to the resources needed to attain the highest level of health.

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Digital Health Global

JANUARY 17, 2023

Strategic resource reallocation, including workforce reduction and other cost-cutting measures, to prioritize near-term Lucid and Veris Health commercialization efforts Conference call to be held today at 4:30PM EDT NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)–PAVmed Inc. Out-of-network payments received to date have respected the Medicare rate.

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Digital Health Global

OCTOBER 9, 2023

At the HLTH Conference, DUOS is Unveiling a New Product Leveraging Artificial Intelligence to Match Older Adults with Key Resources Ranging from Primary Care to Transportation NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)– DUOS , a digital health company empowering older adults to live independently through partnerships with Medicare Advantage (MA) health plans, (..)

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Health Populi

APRIL 14, 2019

Ann and I encountered each other at European health conferences, “the two American healthcare girls” in the European space. The barriers to adopting virtual, digital, telehealth modes have been regulatory, financial, and cultural — not so much technical.

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Health Populi

APRIL 16, 2024

This post follows up Part 1 of a two-part series I’ve prepared in advance of the AHIP 2024 conference where I’ll be brainstorming these scenarios with a panel of folks who know their stuff in technology, health care and hospital systems, retail health, and pharmacy, among other key issues. Then Medicare goes bust. Imagine if the U.S.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 30, 2021

The report, based on Trilliant Health's national all-payer claims database , found that about 38 million Americans, excluding traditional Medicare users, generated approximately 96 million video visits during COVID-19. "They'll get care." " ON THE RECORD.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 5, 2024

At its client conference, TruBridge announced a new analytics suite, an interoperability platform, and integration with Nuance Dragon. Intuity Medical received Medicare Part B coverage for POGO , its automatic blood glucose monitoring system.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 29, 2021

But, panelists pointed out during the American Telemedicine Association conference on Tuesday, it's important to take the lessons learned during the pandemic and incorporate them into future innovation efforts. The COVID-19 pandemic acted as an accelerator of sorts for many experiments with virtual care implementations.

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