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CMS wants to make home health telemedicine permanent
Dive Brief: CMS proposed a rule on Thursday that would make looser restrictions on home health providers’ use of telehealth permanent after the pandemic. Home health agencies…
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Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) – Medicare
Healthcare access, remote physical exams, rural and school health, reimbursement, clinical technology, and the evolving ways care can reach patients.
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[Updated] CMS Proposes $540M Home Health Payment Boost, Permanent Telehealth Changes
By Bailey Bryant | June 25, 2020 The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is proposing to make telehealth flexibilities for home health providers introduced in light of the…
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Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Foundation gives $1M to support telehealth
The Community Care Cooperative is raising $5 million to provide telehealth capabilities to local health centers. Mallory Hackett, Associate Editor The Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Foundation this week…
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CMS Proposes Calendar Year 2021 Payment and Policy Changes for Home Health Agencies and Calendar Year 2021 Home Infusion Therapy Benefit
Today, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a proposed rule [CMS-1730-P] that proposes routine updates to the home health payment rates for calendar year…
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3 Barriers to Implementing Home-Based Healthcare
The pandemic may have vaulted us into the future of medicine, but the leap to remote and home-based care is far from complete. by Jacquelyn BengfortTwitter The COVID-19…
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Equal Pay for Telehealth Vital After Pandemic, Senate Told
Virtual doctor visits should pay the same rate as in-office checkups even after the Covid-19 pandemic ends, telehealth advocates told a Senate health panel. The Senate Health,…
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Telehealth Has Gone Mainstream
COVID-19 has altered the way we live, day to day. One way it has changed us is how we access healthcare. As diabetics, we must continue to…
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Sens. Push To Solidify Emergency Telehealth Expansion
A bipartisan group of 30 senators are calling on Senate leaders to permanently retain programs that expanded telehealth services during the COVID-19 pandemic. The group, led by…
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Senators: Make Telehealth Flexibilities Permanent for Hospice, Other Settings
A group of U.S. Senators are calling on their colleagues in Congress and federal agencies to make permanent the increased availability of telehealth that was established temporarily…
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Which Telehealth Changes Will Become Permanent? Hints May Come Next Month
Four months since the start of the public health emergency arising from the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, one of the most acknowledged silver linings for providers…
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Lawmakers introduce bill to make Medicare coverage permanent for certain telehealth services
U.S. Reps. G.K. Butterfield, D-N.C., and Glenn Thompson, R-Pa., introduced a bill on June 12 that would codify Medicare reimbursement for community health centers and rural health clinics for…
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Senior Telehealth Use Continues to Rise, Despite Home Health Limitations
By Bailey Bryant | June 15, 2020 The health care sector has long had the capability to use telehealth, but it took the COVID-19 emergency to prompt widespread adoption. After…
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Bipartisan letter signed urging expansion of access to telehealth services for Medicare beneficiaries
WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Senator Jacky Rosen, a member of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP), joined a bipartisan letter led by Senators Brian…
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4 Telehealth Concerns For Care Management After COVID-19
By Sarah Blumenthal and Richard Harris The COVID-19 pandemic has stirred an urgent need for alternative approaches to patient health assessments, patient monitoring and patient education to reduce…
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Hello, Opportunity Here. Is Anyone Home? — COVID-19 gives us a chance to re-make our healthcare system for the better
Restart? Revamp? Revive? Renew? No one’s totally sure what we should be calling this, this reconfiguration (maybe that’s the word?), but it must be the brave new…
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