Optimistic strides are being taken by the Senate Commerce Committee to enable Medicare reimbursement for telehealth services. April 22, 2015 by Alex Ruoff After years of pushing for higher levels of Medicare reimbursement for physicians providing telehealth services and tracking their patients’ health via remote patient monitoring tools, technology advocates say they’re finally expecting some […]
February 27, 2015 12:30 pm by Dan Verel There’s been a flurry of news related to telemedicine this week, with several notable developments in Mississippi and Silicon Valley. One of the more interesting aspects of telemedicine is that much of the innovation and focus of late has come from startups and vendors, while health […]
Reimbursement is on its way…….. Author Jacqueline DiChiara | Date February 26, 2015 An increasingly digitalized healthcare system has experienced significant telehealth reimbursement changes — even within the past five years — as it becomes more routinely integrated. The snowballing demand for telehealth solutions is becoming evident as the most valuable healthcare professionals now require […]
Labeling telehealth as “increasingly vital” to the healthcare delivery system, the American Hospital Association (AHA) urged the Committee on Energy and Commerce to reduce Medicare’s financial and technological barriers to remote care. The letter, addressed to Chairman Fred Upton,follows a report on the growing promise of telehealth to address care disparities, reduce costs, and ease […]
New York became the 22nd state to sign into law legislation that will require commercial and Medicaid plans to provide coverage of telehealth and telemedicine services. The law, originally intended to take effect on January 1, 2015, will become effective on January 1, 2016. In addition to providing definitions for telemedicine (two-way audio video communications, […]
Here’s an excellent article keeping us up to date on Telehealth: Article By: Lisa English Hinkle The cost effectiveness of providing health care via telemedicine or telehealth promises to be an effective tool to increase coverage and reimbursement of healthcare provided remotely or through telehealth. Towers Watson, a national consulting company, recently published a 2014 […]
As the government continues to add Bills supporting Telehealth, we must wonder WHEN they will start passing those Bills: Written by Helen Gregg (Twitter | Google+) | September 24, 2014 A new bill that aims to provide additional incentives for accountable care organization successes includes several provisions that would allow ACOs to expand their telemedicine […]
The PROOF continues……. September 11, 2014 | By Katie Dvorak There are many uses for telemedicine to manage chronic diseases, and no matter the process, the technology offers beneficial results and costs reductions, according to a recent study. The study, published online in the journal Telemedicine and e-Health, looks at the impact telemedicine has on […]
August 07, 2014 | Eric Wicklund – Editor, mHealthNews A new Congressional effort seeks to expand telemedicine by allowing Medicare reimbursement for more treatments – and more people. The Medicare Telehealth Parity Act of 2014 was introduced in July by U.S. Reps. Mike Thompson (D-CA.) and Gregg Harper (R-MS). If passed into law, the expansion of telehealth services […]
It’s about time and the way that CMS is going to pay for Remote Patient Monitoring is, essentially, like this….. Services to be covered when provided by telehealth: Chronic Care Management ——————————— CMS is proposing reimbursement criteria for non-face-to-face chronic care management (CCM) services, defined as a unique, covered service designed to pay separately for […]
Is CMS FINALLY going to cover remote patient monitoring?? We may be one step closer… By: Jonah Comstock | Jul 23, 2014 Representatives Mike Thompson (D-Calif.) and Glenn Thompson (R-Penn.) are set to announce a new telehealth bill soon. Like some of Mike Thompson’s previous telehealth efforts, the bill seeks to amend the Title XVIII of the Social […]
It’s only a matter of time……… By Ephraim Schwartz, Contributing Editor The barriers that stand in the way of full-blown adoption of a modern and mobile remote healthcare system require not only advances in technology but a willingness on the part of the healthcare community to change at an institutional level. There is a palpable resistance […]
…… Eventually someone in government will listen……. June 9, 2014 | By Dan Bowman Saying they want to improve care coordination, several organizations are calling on the federal government to reimburse accountable care organizations for the use of telehealth and remote patient monitoring technologies. In three letters sent today to incoming U.S. Department of Health and […]
The obvious continues to become more obvious…… Friday, June 6, 2014 Doctors who practice in patient-centered medical homes and use electronic health record systems generally provide more recommended care than those who do not work in a PCMH and use paper or electronic records, according to a studypublished in the Annals of Internal Medicine, Health IT Analytics reports (Bresnick, Health […]
The proof is always in the pudding. How about THIS pudding….. May 27, 2014 | Eric Wicklund – Editor, mHealthNews Hospital systems looking for the value of a home-based monitoring program for discharged patients might be interested in a nine-month project undertaken by North Carolina-based Vidant Health. The health system, a nine-hospital, 70+-clinic network serving some 29 […]
