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Feb 11, 2020 •Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs)

CMS Loosens Restrictions on Telehealth for Certain Shared-Risk ACOs

In a rule announced last month, CMS is giving certain ACOs at risk of owing money back to Medicare because they haven’t hit spending targets more freedom…

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Feb 7, 2020 •Blog

CMS to Add MA Telehealth Coverage for Kidney Disease, Specialty Care

In a proposed rule issued this week, CMS is boosting telehealth coverage in Medicare Advantage plans for members with end-stage renal disease and giving MA members more…

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Jan 26, 2020 •Blog

Payment Outlook: 60% of MA Plans Cover Telehealth, 95% of Post-Acute Providers Subject to Alternate Models

By Alex Spanko | January 26, 2020 The new fee-for-service Medicare model absorbed much of the oxygen around nursing home payment reform in 2019, but 2020 — as well as…

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Jan 7, 2020 •Blog

Here’s what providers need to know as RPM is poised for take-off with new CMS rules

With the new CMS rules going into effect in 2020, providers have more opportunity than ever before to seize these benefits by collecting critical patient information while…

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Dec 12, 2019 •Blog

Gingrich & DeSantis: A health care revolution is coming – It could give you 24/7 access to a doctor

In Washington’s increasingly toxic atmosphere – filled with impeachment hearings, the jostling of the Democratic primary, and an obsession with trivial gaffes and scandal over substance –…

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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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