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Jul 2, 2020 •Blog

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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Jul 2, 2020 •Blog

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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Jul 2, 2020 •Blog

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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Jul 2, 2020 •Blog

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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Jul 2, 2020 •Blog

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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Jun 29, 2020 •Blog

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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Jun 29, 2020 •Blog

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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Jun 29, 2020 •Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs)

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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Jun 29, 2020 •Blog

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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Jun 29, 2020 •Blog

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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Jun 29, 2020 •Blog

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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Jun 29, 2020 •Blog

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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Jun 29, 2020 •Blog

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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Jun 29, 2020 •Blog

The FCC distributed $100 million to health systems in order to improve telehealth infrastructure

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) allocated nearly $105 million in funding to over 300 healthcare providers to boost telehealth infrastructure as coronavirus outbreaks continue, per Fierce Healthcare. The CARES…

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Jun 29, 2020 •Blog

Congress Questions FCC on Details of COVID-19 Telehealth Program

Congress is asking the FCC to provide weekly reports, beginning this week, on the number of providers approved for funding from the telehealth program, as well as…

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