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Dec 3, 2019 Blog

Home health to pare down therapy services, up telehealth offerings

Alex Kacik Home health providers will look to significantly expand their telehealth offerings as they curtail their therapy services, according to a new survey. The number of…

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Dec 3, 2019 aTouchAway

Home health agencies expanding, rolling out more telehealth services

Author: Linda Wilson Dive Brief: Home health agencies are growing their businesses, with 43% of them planning to expand or add services in the next two years,…

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Nov 15, 2019 aTouchAway

Telehealth creates a new kind of health care experience

Maria knew something was wrong. A working mom in her mid-thirties, Maria has diabetes — and she was feeling more fatigued than usual. She thought it could…

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Nov 8, 2019 Blog

Legislation Re-Introduced to Expand Access to Telehealth Under Medicare

A bipartisan group of senators introduced legislation on October 30th designed to expand Medicare beneficiaries’ access to telehealth services. The bill is called the Creating Opportunities Now…

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Nov 5, 2019 Blog

Medicare Remote Patient Monitoring: CMS Finalizes New Code and General Supervision

05 November 2019 Authors: Nathaniel M. LacktmanEmily H. Wein CMS just released the 2020 final rule with changes to remote patient monitoring (RPM), officially titled “Chronic Care…

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Nov 5, 2019 Blog

CMS Finalizes New Reimbursement Rules for Remote Patient Monitoring

The final rule for the 2020 Physician Fee Schedule gives hospitals and health systems more opportunities to use remote patient monitoring and paves the way for new…

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Nov 5, 2019 American Medical Association (AMA)

Federal law cripples telehealth in Medicare. New bill changes that.

What’s the news: A bipartisan Senate bill unveiled last week would make it easier for patients enrolled in Medicare to receive telehealth services from physicians. Digital health…

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Oct 31, 2019 Blog

CMS Lowers PDGM’s Behavioral Adjustment, Finalizes RAP Elimination Plan

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) on Thursday finalized the Patient-Driven Groupings Model (PDGM) for 2020, in addition to its plan to phase out home…

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Oct 30, 2019 Blog

Congress, Candidates and the White House Agree: Telehealth Is Policy to Get Behind

This week, a bipartisan group of U.S. senators introduced the long-awaited updated version of the CONNECT for Health Act, a bill that is likely to be the…

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Oct 30, 2019 Blog

‘Telehealth’ Poised to Change the Face of Health Care

Fifteen or 20 years ago, the idea that we all would one day carry around mini-computers through which we could access virtually all of recorded information —…

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Oct 30, 2019 Blog

New Telehealth Legislation Seeks to Expand Medicare Coverage

Removing geographic barriers and improving rural access are among the goals of CONNECT for Health Act of 2019, which has bipartisan Senate and House support. Support for…

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Oct 14, 2019 Blog

Medicare needs to increase access to telehealth

Within one year, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services must propose regulations that adjust the network adequacy requirements for Medicare Advantage plans to factor in…

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Oct 10, 2019 Blog

Bipartisan support keeps telehealth adoption moving forward

Over the last decade, few issues in politics have been more polarizing than healthcare. It’s driven a deep wedge between Democrats and Republicans, particularly following the passage…

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Oct 9, 2019 Blog

Lots to Like in the Executive Order on Medicare

On October 3, President Trump issued an executive order on “protecting and improving Medicare for our nation’s seniors.” For now, it’s only a statement of intent, but…

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Sep 6, 2019 American Medical Association (AMA)

6 new digital health CPT codes that you should know about

Six new codes that are part of the 2020 Current Procedural Terminology (CPT®) code set will help physicians and others report a range of digital health services…

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