Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 26, 2020

Home-based primary care allows individuals with chronic conditions – especially older people – to stay in their homes longer, reducing hospitalization rates and improving quality of life. As the COVID-19 crisis has made evident, telehealth can be a useful tool to help connect patients with services remotely.

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FierceHealthIT

MAY 15, 2024

Senators Sheldon Whitehouse and Bill Cassidy want to reform how primary care providers get paid through Medicare, and they also want to hear from the healthcare industry about the best way to do it.

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Mobi Health News

MAY 22, 2018

Cambridge, Massachusetts-based Iora Health, a digitally-enabled primary care provider that focuses on the senior Medicare population, announced yesterday that it has closed $100 million in Series E financing. This brings the company’s total funding to at least $223.5

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 12, 2020

introduced new legislation this week that would provide for permanent Medicare payments for telehealth services at federally qualified health centers and rural health clinics. Butterfield, D-North Carolina, and Glenn Thompson, R-Pa., " WHY IT MATTERS. Since then, multiple groups have pushed the agency to make such changes permanent.

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FierceHealthIT

JUNE 8, 2023

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services aims to advance value-based primary care, especially in rural areas and among underserved populations, with a new pilot project. |

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FierceHealthIT

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services announced Monday that is now accepting applications for new primary care alternative payment models. Called “Direct Contracting”, the program offered by the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation will test an array of financial risk-sharing arrangements.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 19, 2023

Over the last few years, Medicare Advantage plans have dramatically increased their deployment of telehealth systems for seniors. While some in the healthcare industry may be skeptical of telehealth’s utilization, particularly within the Medicare population, these plans continue to move full steam ahead.

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FierceHealthIT

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Wellvana, a value-based care enabler, is joining forces with AdventHealth as an exclusive partner to its primary care network in Florida. | AdventHealth is transitioning its entire primary care network in the state to value-based care for Medicare and Medicare Advantage patients.

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FierceHealthIT

MAY 5, 2020

Humana will now waive all cost-sharing for primary care and behavioral health care visits through the end of the year for its Medicare Advantage members.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 9, 2021

The combination of simple technology and good service is helping to make remote patient monitoring (RPM) a key part of keeping patients healthy for primary care physicians. The team at Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University rolled out RPM and has seen a drop in avoidable ED visits and improved patient experience.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 24, 2021

For Black patients, lower utilization of ambulatory care and higher use of inpatient, emergency department, and nursing suggest greater spender downstream that might be prevented by more spending upstream on primary care, prevention, and early detection of disease.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 25, 2020

Among these visits, 76% were with a primary care provider, 32% with a specialty care provider, and 18% with a mental health provider, the study found. Four in ten older people who had experienced telehealth also said they would be interested in telehealth for mental health care in the future.

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GlobalMed

JUNE 16, 2021

Primary care physicians are the frontline of healthcare. The Association of American Medical Colleges predicts a primary care provider shortfall , with numbers landing between 21,000 to 55,000 by 2023. But other factors drive primary care barriers as well, such as affordability issues and rural shortages.

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Electronic Health Reporter

APRIL 23, 2019

Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Alex Azar and Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Seema Verma announce the CMS Primary Cares Initiative, a new set of payment models that will transform primary care to deliver better value for patients throughout the healthcare system.

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FierceHealthIT

JANUARY 23, 2020

It’s an idea that could save Medicare billions of dollars a year, but it would have a major impact on physicans' revenue—cutting payments to surgeons and increasing those to primary care doctors.

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Mobi Health News

AUGUST 10, 2023

The Texas-based company will utilize Elation's primary care platform to scale its Medicare-focused operations.

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Health Populi

APRIL 18, 2019

Today, fewer than 1% of Medicare beneficiaries have had any telehealth encounter, Kaveh explained, and fewer than one in eight doctors are aware of offering telehealth in their practice. Deepthi from Humana offered three considerations concerning how care will transform. healthcare system.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 7, 2023

The company continues to be the largest network of independent primary care in the country, with more than two million patients covered by more than 150 value-based contracts across Medicare, Medicare Advantage, Medicaid and commercial payers.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 9, 2020

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has put together further detailed guidance for how healthcare providers should be documenting and reporting electronic clinical quality measures for telehealth encounters.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 14, 2022

Company will use funds to continue rapid growth, expand network of 1,000+ practices, and add new wraparound services Aledade announced it has closed a $123 million Series E funding round to support investments in value-based care for more seniors covered by Medicare Advantage (MA) and innovation that improves patient care and increases medical cost (..)

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Beyond the sheer scale of patient volumes reached during the pandemic, virtual care was adopted by physicians across specialties well beyond primary care. Hy-Vee also introduced a Medicare Aisle into its grocery stores in August 2021. In 2020, 79% of U.S.

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Health Populi

JULY 26, 2022

Iora Health has focused on the Medicare-enrolled population, distinct from ONEM’s target patient market of younger, employed consumers. As we all grapple with what this means at this preliminary stage and then what could evolve over time, I focus on the dual aspect of the opportunity: is this about primary care or is this about data?

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Geisinger plans to open more clinics for primary care, senior care, and convenient/retail care. Of particular note is the organization’s “promise of health assurance – care that is more proactive, accessible, and affordable to people everywhere.” Retail health-meets-Medicare.

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Health Populi

JULY 13, 2020

health care financing regime of volume-based payment didn’t fare well as millions of patients postponed or cancelled procedures and visits for fear of contracting the virus in the halls, offices and clinics of hospitals and doctor’s offices. gross domestic product in 2020, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services calculated.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 24, 2020

One-half of doctors plan to increase their use of telemedicine in the next 12 months, the survey learned, across both primary care and specialty practices. They estimate that the number of physicians now seeing patients through telemedicine is 15 times greater than the number two years ago.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

About 29% of healthcare payments flowed through downside risk contracts in 2023 , according to research from the Health Care Payment Learning & Action Network. Medicare Advantage led the way, with 43% of dollars in downside risk. Partnerships McKesson subsidiary Ontada’s real-world data is now available within Datavant.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 4, 2023

A new health project in Adelaide seeks to provide virtually-delivered primary care services to patients with chronic conditions. In addition, the project will form a new digital health workforce by training doctors, nurses and allied health professionals in both hospital and primary care.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 21, 2021

Cavanaugh previously has served as the deputy administrator and director of the Center for Medicare at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and as deputy director for programs and policy in the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation.

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David Chou

JANUARY 10, 2023

CVS Health, one of the largest pharmacy and healthcare companies in the United States, recently announced its plans to acquire Oak Street Health, a rapidly growing primary care provider for $10B. Oak Street Health is a network of primary care clinics that serve older adults on Medicare.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 30, 2024

healthcare affordability crisis can be solved by 2030 if we can improve access to primary care. Primary care has been proven to play a key role in helping drive down healthcare costs and is the single biggest lever we have to address the affordability crisis. Government-funded capitation has to ensure care is adequate.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

The increase in telehealth adoption by physicians and patients alike continues to allow UPMC to develop new digital health tools that offer greater access to high-quality care from the comfort of their own home. UPMC launched a virtual-first, full-service primary care clinic offering a complete spectrum of care to patients aged 18 and above.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Bravo to Essence Healthcare, a Medicare Advantage plan, for offering Oura rings in 2025 to members who want to engage with self-tracking, sharing data, and acting on advice to benefit their health as they age.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 8, 2021

Walmart Health's moves in this direction echo that of Amazon Care, which quietly filed to do business in dozens of states before publicly announcing its intention to provide app-based services in all 50 by this summer. As Livingston notes, it also plans to expand into Florida this year. ON THE RECORD.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 21, 2021

NYSE: OSH, or the “Company”), a network of value-based primary care centers for adults on Medicare, today announced it has acquired RubiconMD, the leading technology platform providing access to specialist expertise. Oak Street Health, Inc.

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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. 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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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 30, 2021

senators has reintroduced the Creating Opportunities Now for Necessary and Effective Care Technologies (CONNECT) for Health Act of 2021. The act would expand coverage of Medicare telehealth services and make some COVID-19 telehealth flexibilities permanent, among other provisions. Access for Medicare beneficiaries.

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FierceHealthIT

MARCH 19, 2024

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has announced the ACO Primary Care Flex Model (ACO PC Flex Model), allowing eligible accountable care organizations to treat people with with | Accountable care organizations are largely supportive of CMS' new primary care model released Tuesday, they wish the agency would broaden its scope (..)

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