Digital Health Adoption in Community Healthcare
Digital health adoption in community healthcare can expand clinical access, support care teams, and bring virtual exams closer to families where they live.
Hospice
Reducing Healthcare Disparities Through Telehealth
Reducing healthcare disparities through telehealth requires more than a video visit. Learn how device-enabled virtual care can extend equitable access.
Virtual Examinations for Mobile Healthcare Programs
Virtual examinations for mobile healthcare programs help care teams extend clinical reach, capture exam data, and support connected care pathways safely.
HHAs and Hospices: What to Expect When the COVID-19 PHE Ends
COVID-19 significantly affected home-based care providers, such as home health agencies (HHAs) and hospices, whose staff had to overcome both physical and mental burdens of going into patients’ homes to deliver care, especially in the days before a COVID-19 vaccine. While these providers benefitted from a number of Medicare program regulatory flexibilities during the public […]
What Terminating the COVID PHE Means for Hospices
To a certain extent, hospices will soon be operating under pre-pandemic rules in a “post-COVID” world. With the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency (PHE) going away on May 11, many of the temporary flexibilities that came with it are expected to end, though Congress did extend some through 2024, including hospice re-certifications via telehealth. The flexibilities enabled hospice […]
Hospices Brace for Year 4 of COVID PHE, Await Word of Telehealth’s Future
A fourth year into the pandemic, its effects have hospices continuing to combat against financial and operational headwinds, as well as uncertainty about the future of telehealth rules. The COVID-19 public health emergency (PHE) is likely to endure past another extension. Currently set to expire Jan. 11, 2023, the U.S. Department of Health & Human […]
Executive Summary: Tracking Telehealth Changes State-by-State in Response to COVID-19 – October 15, 2020
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues across the United States, states, payers, and providers are looking for ways to expand access to telehealth services. Telehealth is an essential tool in ensuring patients are able to access the healthcare services they need in as safe a manner as possible. In order to provide our clients with quick and […]
Executive Summary: Tracking Telehealth Changes State-by-State in Response to COVID-19 – September 2020
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues across the United States, states, payers, and providers are looking for ways to expand access to telehealth services. Telehealth is an essential tool in ensuring patients are able to access the healthcare services they need in as safe a manner as possible. In order to provide our clients with quick and […]
Rise of Hospice Telehealth Can Stoke Patient Satisfaction
Like providers, patients and families are adapting to rising use of telehealth in hospice care during the COVID-19 pandemic, as apparent plans to make temporary regulatory flexibilities permanent start to move forward. If telehealth remains a growing priority among hospices, gauging patient and family satisfaction with those services will be critical, particularly as they prepare to […]
CMS to Make Permanent COVID-19 Telehealth Rules, Hospice Role Uncertain
The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) will be making permanent a number of the temporary flexibilities to expand telehealth that the agency implemented in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The number of rules affecting hospices that would be extended remains to be seen. President Donald Trump signed an executive order that among […]
The Time is Now for Providers to Apply for Some of the Remaining $130 Million Available Under the FCC’s COVID-19 Telehealth Program
Tuesday, June 2, 2020 As previously reported, Congress and Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) have removed longstanding regulatory barriers to the broad deployment of telehealth for general care during the COVID-19 pandemic. In parallel, the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act has established the Federal Communication Commission (“FCC”) COVID-19 Telehealth Program, (the […]
CMS Flexibilities to Fight COVID-19 – Hospice
Hospice: CMS Flexibilities to Fight COVID-19 Since the beginning of the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency, the Trump Administration has issued an unprecedented array of temporary regulatory waivers and new rules to equip the American healthcare system with maximum flexibility to respond to the 2019 Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. These temporary changes will apply immediately across […]