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Lawmakers detail how to transition telehealth from emergency response to permanent tool: 3 details
To ensure telehealth provisions lifted during the COVID-19 pandemic become permanent, U.S. Reps. Robin Kelly, D-Ill., and Anna Eshoo, D-Calif., are focusing on broadband access and Medicare…
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Telehealth
Partnership to Advance Virtual Care Urges CMS to Extend and Make Permanent Certain Telehealth Flexibilities Issued in Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic
Today, the Partnership to Advance Virtual Care (the “Partnership”) submitted comments in response to the CY 2021 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule [CMS-1734-P] proposed rule. As a leading coalition representing…
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Lawmakers See Equity-Enhancing Future for Telehealth Beyond Pandemic
Reps. Robin Kelly, D-Ill., and Anna Eshoo, D-Calif., view telehealth services as a key tool to promote equity in health care post-pandemic Two House lawmakers active in…
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Telehealth
Telehealth more time- and cost-effective for chronic pain patients, bolstering case for provider adoption
Patient satisfaction was high even before the pandemic, and anesthesiologists say 50% of visits could be virtual. Jeff Lagasse, Associate Editor Patients who saw a pain medicine specialist…
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Telehealth
Hospices Seek to Balance Technology with the Human Touch
By Holly Vossel | October 4, 2020 Hospices nationwide have leveraged technological advances to improve workflows, referral communications and enhance patient care. While telehealth in particular has been vital for…
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Telehealth
Maximize Reimbursement Now
7 changes affecting HME paymentsby Miriam LieberFriday, October 2nd, 2020 Although home medical equipment (HME) providers are accustomed to constant change, the uncertainties of the pandemic have…
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Telehealth
Ensuring the Future of Tele-Mental Health
There has been a 4000% increase in commercial telehealth claims year-to-year and 1/3 of them are mental health claims. COVID-19 has precipitated a mental health pandemic. Not only can the virus…
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Telehealth
8 must-know lessons from telehealth’s new normal
From managing cybersecurity imperatives with at-home patients as a new X factor, to surfing the data tsunami of remote patient monitoring, experts from NIST, FCC, Mount Sinai,…
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Physician Fee Schedule
ATA weighs in on proposed CMS Physician Fee Schedule rule
The American Telemedicine Association’s comments focused on expanding telehealth access, changes to remote monitoring services, and the provision of telehealth in federally qualified health centers and rural…
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Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) - Medicare
CMS touts lower premiums and benefits of Medicare Advantage plans
Over 94% of Medicare Advantage plans will offer additional telehealth benefits, up from about 58% of plans offering telehealth benefits in 2020. Susan Morse, Managing Editor More Medicare…
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Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) - Medicare
53 Medicare Advantage Plans to Offer Hospice in 2021, Palliative Care to Grow
Among Medicare Advantage plans, 53 will be covering hospice and palliative care in 2021 through the value-based insurance design (VBID) model, according to the U.S. Centers for…
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American Telemedicine Association (ATA)
American Telemedicine Association Responds to Medicare Telehealth 2021 Proposed Rule
The American Telemedicine Association (ATA) issued a policy comment letter to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), advocating for telehealth-friendly changes to Medicare’s telehealth coverage and reimbursement rules. The…
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Telehealth
17 patient care organizations ink principles for telehealth regulations
Jackie Drees – Friday, September 25th, 2020 The American Heart Association and American Cancer Society and 15 other patient organizations on Sept. 24 released a set of principles for legislators to…
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Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) - Medicare
New Bill Would Add Telehealth to Medicare Diabetes Prevention Program
A bill filed this week would expand the Medicare Diabetes Prevention Program to include telehealth services, thus improving access to care for millions of people at risk…
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