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. " "Access to telehealth has become more than just a convenience, but rather a critical necessity in America," said Butterfield in a statement.

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Digital Health Wire

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

University of Michigan researchers just delivered some compelling evidence that telehealth doesn’t increase wasteful care, and may actually reduce it in several key areas. The analysis in JAMA Network Open leveraged Medicare FFS claims data spanning 578k beneficiaries across 2,552 primary care practices between 2019 and 2022.

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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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Health Populi

AUGUST 25, 2020

In the August 2020 National Poll on Heathy Aging , the University of Michigan research team found a 26% increase in telehealth visits from 2019 to 2020, March to June 2020 year-over-year. In May 2019, 14% of older patients’ health care providers offered telehealth visits, growing to 62% in June 2020 during the pandemic.

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Health Populi

MAY 9, 2024

House Committee on Ways and Means passed six pieces of legislation that would bolster telehealth in the U.S. One of our top priorities on this Committee is helping every American access health care in the community where they live, work, and raise a family,” Committee Chairman Jason Smith (R-Mo.) Yesterday, the U.S.

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Iris Telehealth

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Thankfully, organizations like the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) continue to drive new initiatives to mitigate this barrier and help more people get the care they need. Key initiatives include flexibility in billing and supervision as well as permanently covering certain telehealth services.

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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. adults 50 and over in February and March 2022, to gauge older peoples’ views on virtual care now and in the future.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 27, 2022

COVID-19 transformed the delivery of care, making the use of telehealth tools highly beneficial – and a priority area for research. Healthcare IT News interviewed Booker and Ratwani to learn more about their work and how it can inform leaders following and advancing the future of telehealth.

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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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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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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 8, 2021

Instead, the preparation regards the retail giant's pending acquisition of telehealth vendor MeMD earlier this year. First, Walmart has rolled out in-person clinics that offer a range of services including primary care, optometry, dental and hearing in Arkansas, Georgia and Illinois. THE LARGER TREND. ON THE RECORD.

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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. The 39 telehealth-eligible eCQMs for the 2021 performance period can be found here.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 12, 2021

The Australian government has set aside A$106 million ($76 million) over four years to support what it calls "permanent" telehealth, which will ensure flexibility in healthcare delivery and continuous health consultations via phone or online. Around 89,000 providers are now using telehealth services. WHY IT MATTERS.

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Health Populi

APRIL 18, 2019

Kaveh was brainstorming the future of telehealth a decade from “now,” with three innovators attending #ATA19: Deepthi Bathina of Humana, Matthew Holt of Catalyst Health (and Co-Founder of Health 2.0), and Kim Swafford of Providence St. Deepthi from Humana offered three considerations concerning how care will transform. Providence St.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 21, 2021

While telehealth usage exploded early in the pandemic, in-person care is resuming to normal levels. For many healthcare decision-makers and providers, questions loom about how best to balance these care modalities moving forward, so as not to lose the benefits of telehealth while understanding its limitations.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 10, 2023

As part of a new collaboration with the Connecticut Children's Care Network, Nest Collaborative will provide unlimited same-day telehealth appointments with certified lactation consultants for parents in need of prenatal and perinatal breastfeeding support. ON THE RECORD.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

There’s more evidence that doctors and patients, both, want to use telehealth after the COVID-19 pandemic fades. Doximity’s second report on telemedicine explores both physicians’ and patients’ views on virtual care, finding most doctors and health consumers on the same page of virtual care adoption.

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Health Populi

JUNE 3, 2020

As we wrestle with just “what” health care will look like “after COVID,” there’s one certainty that we can embrace in our health planning and forecasting efforts: that’s the persistence of telehealth and virtual care into health care work- and life-flows, for clinicians and consumers alike and aligned.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

MARCH 9, 2023

Private payers, Medicaid, and Medicare initiated widespread telehealth reimbursement approvals. The article below clarifies and summarizes the end-of-pandemic reimbursement decisions made by private payers, Medicare, and Medicaid. Resources for other end-of-pandemic decisions are also provided.

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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. That’s the private sector bullish approach to telehealth after the pandemic.

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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). In fact, today, we’re seeing telehealth reimagine care in a more profound and meaningful way than we’ve seen historically.

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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. The distant site for purposes of telehealth can be different from the administrative location. WHY IT MATTERS. THE LARGER TREND.

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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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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 27, 2020

The future potential of telehealth hinges on how it's reimbursed. Virtual care may be popular among patients, but if providers can't get paid for their services, it's unlikely they'll be able to continue to provide them. "Many of my clients who weren't even telehealth providers before have jumped into the fray."

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Health Populi

JUNE 27, 2022

The full report speaks to medical spending and utilization trends for preventive care, telehealth, and behavioral health. Commercially insured workers in low-income communities also had fewer visits per 1000 members for telehealth in 2020 and 2021. In 2020, the difference between those at the lower income level was 490.4

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South Central Telehealth Resource Center

APRIL 14, 2021

The Arkansas, Tennessee, and Mississippi Virtual Visit Billing Guides have been updated with the most recent payor telehealth policy changes! Since the Federal Public Health Emergency (PHE), has not yet been renewed (currently set to end April 20 th ), several payors have not extended their telehealth policies beyond that.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 2, 2021

House Committee on Energy and Commerce convened Tuesday to discuss the future of virtual care. Policymakers and stakeholders emphasized the importance of balancing access to care with addressing concerns around fraud and overutilization. Witnesses offered a variety of strategies for effectively addressing the future of telehealth.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

Studies More than 63% of patients would be more likely to participate in a clinical trial that offered telehealth visits , according to a survey from Lindus Health. About 29% of healthcare payments flowed through downside risk contracts in 2023 , according to research from the Health Care Payment Learning & Action Network.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Active healthcare practitioners are now enjoying the option of choosing one of three approaches to deliver care: in-person only, hybrid telehealth, and telehealth-only. For instance, in behavioral care, Medicare has approved telephone and video teletherapy reimbursement. growth in telehealth use and a 0.4%

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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. WHY IT MATTERS While its obvious main goal is to keep patients safe at home, the safe@home project also intends to raise their quality of life and make them more involved in this model of care.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

In a virtual public meeting this past Friday, members of the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission discussed how – and whether – to permanently expand telehealth in Medicare. Before the pandemic, Medicare's physician fee schedule covered a limited set of telehealth services in rural locations.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 4, 2021

Charlie Baker signed into law a wide-ranging bill that includes expanding access to telehealth after the COVID-19 public health emergency abates. At the beginning of the COVID-19 public health emergency, Baker enacted an emergency order requiring insurers to cover telehealth in order to help ensure provider and patient safety.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 1, 2020

Although telehealth can be used to address that gap, write experts from the University of California, Los Angeles in a new report, policymakers must consider the ways in which vulnerable people are left behind by technological advances. Seven million Californians live in a region with a shortage of physicians.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

JUNE 20, 2023

Since 2011, I have been writing the Telehealth.org blog to inform behavioral health professionals of telehealth advocacy to support the permanent approval of telehealth and telemedicine reimbursement at state and federal levels. The following article briefly outlines both bills.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 6, 2020

more patients than ever are turning to telehealth for care – eschewing overcrowded emergency rooms and dormant physician practices in favor of virtual consults. " Although the study specifically focused on patients seeking care in New York, Testa said that it shows "the generalizability of telehealth."

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 5, 2022

As Iris Telehealth's chief medical officer, Dr. Tom Milam manages a team of clinicians and guides them in telemedicine and industry best practices. We interviewed Milam to discuss: how provider organizations are using telehealth to try to curb provider burnout as demand for behavioral health services increases.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 1, 2020

When the United States reported its first COVID-19 case in January 2020, the Medical University of South Carolina activated its telehealth response – months before swathes of other health systems rapidly pivoted to virtual care. "Many departments had achieved 80% of pre-pandemic levels.

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