From telehealth to Medicare cuts: Here are the health policies in Congress' $1.7T omnibus
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NOVEMBER 4, 2024
Days before the 2024 presidential election, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released an unpublished version of the final calendar year 2025 physician fee schedule final rule | Digital therapeutics, telehealth, rural heath clinics and opioid treatment programs all got updates in the final 2025 Medicare physician fee schedule rule, (..)
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Telehealth and COVID-19 in the U.S.: A Conversation with Ann Mond Johnson, ATA CEO
Health Populi
MARCH 12, 2020
Will the coronavirus inspire greater adoption of telehealth in the U.S.? I asked myself, then went to my Oracle of Telehealth: Ann Mond Johnson, CEO of ATA (once named the American Telemedicine Association). It is clear that there’s no better use case for digital/tele/virtual health than what is unfolding right now.
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Three in Five People 50+ in the US Will Likely Use Telehealth In the Future – An Update from AARP
Health Populi
MAY 10, 2022
“Telehealth certainly appears to be here to stay,” the AARP forecasts in An Updated Look at Telehealth Use Among U.S. adults over 50 said they or someone in their family had used telehealth. One in three people over 50 in America are most interested in telehealth, with another 30% somewhat interested.
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Telehealth billing guide highlights complexities of use
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
FEBRUARY 5, 2020
The Center for Connected Health Policy has published a 21-page guide intended to help providers with telehealth-based Medicare and Medicaid reimbursements. The distant site for purposes of telehealth can be different from the administrative location. WHY IT MATTERS. THE LARGER TREND. ON THE RECORD.
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In telehealth hearing, House committee weighs access against cost
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
MARCH 2, 2021
"Modernizing telehealth policy to meet the moment" is one of lawmakers' most important responsibilities, said Rep. The hearing came on the heels of the reintroduction of the bipartisan Telehealth Modernization Act in both the House and the Senate, which would safeguard access to coverage after the COVID-19 pandemic.
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American Hospital Association, Johns Hopkins and others launch pro-telehealth campaign
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
DECEMBER 7, 2021
A group of 16 provider and industry organizations this past week launched a campaign geared toward protecting and expanding access to telehealth. Telehealth Access for America is aimed at educating members of the public about the need to enact permanent legislation around virtual care services. WHY IT MATTERS. THE LARGER TREND.
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Telehealth resource centers nationwide aid providers at no cost
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
JUNE 17, 2020
In 2019, the National Consortium of Telehealth Resource Centers received 4,039 requests, total, from providers looking for technical assistance or for more information about telehealth. This year, the Mid-Atlantic Telehealth Resource Center, one of the 14 U.S.
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8 must-know lessons from telehealth's new normal
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
SEPTEMBER 28, 2020
Telehealth has been around for a long time, but only recently has it gained the critical mass that most have long expected. "It's the overnight success story that was 30 years in the making," said Atrium Health Chief Strategy Officer Dr. Rasu Shrestha. How to shore up telehealth cybersecurity.
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Telehealth has grown by leaps at doc practices, with wide variance in usage patterns
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
SEPTEMBER 15, 2021
To the surprise of no one, the new AMA Physician Practice Benchmark Survey , finds a major uptick in use of telehealth since before the pandemic: 70.3% These differing specialties are also using telehealth in different ways. Across all practices surveyed for the report: 58% said they used telehealth to diagnose or treat patients, 59.2%
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Telehealth, supply chain monitoring key areas of investment during pandemic
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
MAY 8, 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic has helped shed light on the longer-term structural reforms needed in the US healthcare system, which include telehealth investment and medical supply chain tracking and coordination improvements.
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Thinking About Telehealth Through the Lens of Real Estate – Listening to JLL
Health Populi
MARCH 9, 2022
If you made your living in commercial real estate — and especially, working with hospitals’ and health systems’ office space — would the concept of telehealth be freaking you out right now? The firm asserts that, and I quote from the report, “telehealth is not replacing the physical office by any means.”
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Telehealth used less in disadvantaged areas, Health Affairs study finds
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
FEBRUARY 18, 2021
Telehealth has been hailed as a panacea for unequal access to care, but the data has repeatedly suggested otherwise. In a separate Health Affairs blog, health policy experts noted that Medicaid users have had "less consistent" access to telemedicine. WHY IT MATTERS. THE LARGER TREND.
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Hims & Hers, ATA, and 10 others launch Telehealth Equity Coalition
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
FEBRUARY 2, 2021
As the novel coronavirus pandemic swept the country last year, hundreds of thousands of patients turned to telehealth in order to continue accessing care while remaining as safe as possible. And when people don't have access to quality Internet, she added, "that further hampers their access to quality telehealth care."
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Here's what primary care clinicians say they need to effectively implement telehealth
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
SEPTEMBER 16, 2020
With patients afraid to seek care in person and social distancing necessitating as little face-to-face contact as possible, many clinicians pivoted to telehealth – some with more success than others. we need to implement telehealth effectively into primary care," Gupta added. Provide coverage for at-home monitoring devices.
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Why telehealth is so critical for marginalized patient populations
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
JUNE 12, 2023
A 2019 survey by the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation’s Office of Health Policy found that the highest rates of telehealth visits happened among people with Medicaid (29.3%) and Medicare (27.4%), Black individuals (26.8%), and those earning less than $25,000 (26.7%).
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Australian Health Dep't failed to manage risks in expanding telehealth: state auditor
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
JANUARY 30, 2023
The Australian National Audit Office has conducted a review of the expansion of telehealth services across the country by the Department of Health and Aged Care in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. FINDINGS Based on the state audit , the department fell short in governance, risk management, and evaluation of the telehealth expansion.
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Telehealth-As-Healthcare Is a Mainstream Expectation Among Consumers, J.D. Power Finds
Health Populi
OCTOBER 6, 2022
Telehealth has increased access to mental health services, I’ve highlighted this Mental Illness Awareness Week here in Health Populi. But telehealth has also emerged as a preferred channel for routine health care services, we learn from J.D. Power’s 2022 Telehealth Satisfaction Study.
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A Vote for Telehealth is a Vote for American Patients’ and Doctors’ Well-Being
Health Populi
APRIL 12, 2024
Congress can’t agree on much before the 2024 summer recess, there’s one bipartisan stroke of political pens in Washington, DC, that could provide some satisfaction for both patients and doctors: bring telehealth back to patients and providers permanently. S 2016) and second, re-introduce and sign the Telehealth Modernization Act.
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Telehealth Awareness, Access and Adoption: Updates from J.D. Power, the ATA and FAIR Health
Health Populi
AUGUST 5, 2019
Expanding its report-card role in the health ecosystem. Power has undertaken a survey on consumer satisfaction with 31 telehealth providers across 15 measures, which will be published in November 2019. Those who had a telehealth encounter more likely lived in the Western U.S., Power polled 1,000 consumers in June 2019.
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How CMS is boosting telehealth and RPM with new CPT codes
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
SEPTEMBER 28, 2021
Other advancements in digital health reimbursement include those for virtual check-ins, where a provider reviews a photo or video submitted by a patient, and e-visits, in which a patient checks in to a provider via an online portal. What does RTM mean for the progress of healthcare in the digital space, and the future of telehealth?
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People in the U.S. Without the Internet Were More Likely To Die in the Pandemic
Health Populi
MARCH 25, 2022
.” Health Populi’s Hot Points: The American Medical Association polled physicians in late 2021 to gauge doctors’ perspectives on telehealth. The report lays out physicians’ majority support for telehealth and key issues preventing further adoption and proliferation of use across the U.S.
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How a medical university's Telehealth Service Implementation Model can help you
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
FEBRUARY 21, 2022
In 2021, Wellpath leveraged TSIM, the Telehealth Service Implementation Model that was developed at the Medical University of South Carolina's Center for Telehealth, an HRSA-designated National Telehealth Center of Excellence. What are a couple of the challenges of developing a national telehealth service?
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Telehealth Legislation Passes Ways & Means, As GLP-1s Are Fast-Meshing with Telemedicine in the Marketplace
Health Populi
MAY 9, 2024
House Committee on Ways and Means passed six pieces of legislation that would bolster telehealth in the U.S. for the next two years, assuring several aspects of access for health citizens across the country. The six pieces of telehealth policy cover: The Preserving Telehealth. Yesterday, the U.S.
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Billing Medicare and Private Payers for Telehealth Visits: What to Expect Post-Public Health Emergency
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
NOVEMBER 10, 2020
“The expansion of telehealth and the offering of new telehealth services that were not previously covered really enabled physicians to care for their patients in the midst of this crisis,” said Todd Askew, the AMA’s senior vice president of advocacy, during a recent “AMA COVID-19 Update. Provider Considerations.
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Virtual Health Tech Enables the Continuum of Health from Hospital to Home
Health Populi
APRIL 21, 2021
TripleTree is an investment bank that has advised health care transactions since 1997. As such, the team has been involved in digital health financing and innovation for 24 years, well before the kind of platforms, APIs, and cloud computing now enabling telehealth and care, everywhere.
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How Trauma-Informed Design Principles Can Be Health-Ful for All of Us – Learning from IKEA
Health Populi
DECEMBER 5, 2024
It’s another riff on principles “by-design,” such as equity-by-design, privacy-by-design, and other mindsets that people who envision, design, commercialize, and implement things for people focused on health and care should consider as a first principle.
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Telehealth Update from the AMA – Setting the Context for ATA 2022
Health Populi
APRIL 28, 2022
physicians were using telehealth to care for patients at the end of 2021. Among those doctors who were not providing telehealth by late 2021, just over one half never did so during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the 2021 Telehealth Survey Report from the AMA. Mental and behavioral health. Four in five U.S.
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Real-Time Versus Store-and-Forward Telehealth Technology
AMD Telemedicine
JANUARY 31, 2023
Knowing the differences between real-time and store-and-forward telehealth is a matter of clinical appropriateness and will also have an impact on patient and provider experience. Another important distinction is that the reimbursement policies from private insurers vary between real-time and store-and-forward technologies.
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Telehealth Reimbursement: End-of-Pandemic Emergency Update
Telebehavioral Health Institute
MARCH 9, 2023
Private payers, Medicaid, and Medicare initiated widespread telehealth reimbursement approvals. Access to Telehealth Services Private Health Insurance Coverage for telehealth and other remote care services will vary by state and private insurance plans. Resources for other end-of-pandemic decisions are also provided.
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Virtual Health Care Can Reduce Carbon Emissions: the Environmental ROI on Telehealth
Health Populi
MAY 7, 2023
This is an important question for two major reasons: There is a direct relationship between health and the environment; and, Health care systems are major contributors to climate change due to the large volume of greenhouse gases they emit. million telehealth visits. million telehealth visits. million in gas costs.
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Most Virtual Care Consumers, Satisfied With Visits in the COVID Era, Expect It for Future Care
Health Populi
JULY 10, 2020
health care providers set up virtual care arrangements to convene with patients. Three months into the COVID-19 crisis, how have patients felt about these telehealth visits? The top reasons health consumers sought virtual care were for wellness check-ins and routine check-ups, among 41% of virtual care consumers.
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ATA to assess telemedicine's role in addressing U.S. healthcare disparities
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
OCTOBER 27, 2021
The American Telemedicine Association announced this week that it was launching a new initiative aimed at evaluating telehealth's potential as a tool to address and eliminate health disparities in the United States. " said Ann Mond Johnson, CEO of the ATA, in a statement. " WHY IT MATTERS. THE LARGER TREND.
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Our Pandemic Lessons: Listening to Michael Dowling – a #HIMSS21 Wrap-Up
Health Populi
AUGUST 13, 2021
health policy and regulatory leaders. An uncertain world is our workplace in the health/care ecosystem, globally, in this moment. . Prior to the emergence of COVID-19, the use of telehealth in U.S. healthcare was relatively low (with Northwell Health actually a more mature user of virtual care).
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New Model Telehealth Laws for Practicing Over State Lines: Uniform Telehealth Act
Telebehavioral Health Institute
AUGUST 4, 2022
The Uniform Telehealth Act was approved at July’s 131st Annual Meeting of the Uniform Law Commission (ULC). The new Uniform Telehealth Act was written to suggest a path forward for practitioners seeking to work over state lines while maintaining existing practitioner standards of care. Reading Time: 3 minutes.
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Telehealth Assistance Resource Pages
South Central Telehealth Resource Center
APRIL 15, 2020
Whether you’re new to telehealth and telemedicine or have been utilizing telehealth for a while, the current COVID19 pandemic has flipped this type of healthcare service delivery on its head much like so many other facets of our professional and personal worlds. Currently, policy is fluid. Bandwidths are burdened. Technology.
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A Portrait of the Health Consumer as Confused, Cost-Challenged, and Out of Control
Health Populi
JULY 28, 2019
One of my recommendations in that blog post was for bricks-and-mortar health care providers to de-couple the “bed” and clinic model to peoples’ homes and mobile platforms. “Imagine a hospital closing beds and shifting workflow to virtual care via telehealth channels,” I wrote. health policy circles.
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AHRQ program seeks provider organizations to help improve hybrid telehealth
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
MAY 2, 2023
DeBakey Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, and chief of health policy, quality and informatics program at the Houston VA Center for Innovation in Quality, Effectiveness and Safety. Hardeep Singh is principal investigator. He is professor of medicine at Baylor College of Medicine, staff physician at Michael E.
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Advanced Medical Reviews
MAY 2, 2019
The future of telehealth continues to build interest due to its convenience and cost-effectiveness. Not only does it increase access to care and reduce travel time—especially for people living in rural areas—but telehealth also decreases the number of hospital stays and can improve communication between clinicians. utilize telehealth.
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Health/Care Everywhere – Re-Imagining Healthcare at ATA 2019
Health Populi
APRIL 14, 2019
Her interview here in HealthLeaders speaks to her vision, recognizing, “It’s just stunning that there’s such a lag between what is possible in telehealth and what is actually happening.”. I’m so keen on telehealth, I’m personally participating in three sessions at #ATA19. That “future” as Ann Mond Johnson notes is do-able “now.”
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Health Consumers Expect Healthcare to be Digital (and Secure), Philips Future Health Index Finds
Health Populi
SEPTEMBER 10, 2019
Philips surveyed health care professionals and consumers living in 15 countries, from North America to Asia, and found that these health systems share one over-arching objective: to provide quality care with improved experiences for both patients and healthcare professionals. Enhanced data privacy and data protection.
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Health Citizenship in the America. If Not Now, When?
Health Populi
SEPTEMBER 17, 2020
These new work-and-life flows have changed our relationship with our personal doctors and local health care systems, pivoting us to virtual care and telehealth platforms.
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How Digital Health Can Stimulate Economic Development
Health Populi
OCTOBER 8, 2018
Among the clearest economic development rationales for digital health is for expanding telehealth in rural America. The quantifiable benefits of rural telehealth are transportation cost savings, lost wages savings, hospital cost savings, and increased revenues to local labs and pharmacies, NTCA calculated.
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Value-Based Health Care Needs All Stakeholders at the Table – Especially the Patient
Health Populi
MARCH 11, 2021
The coolest thing in health policy in the 21st century!! ” Amitabh Chandra gave the opening context-setting talk about the effects of health care cost-sharing on patients-as-consumers. Kavita Patel to assert in the first panel of the day that, “2713 is my favorite number.”
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