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Long-Term Telehealth Expansion Should Be Planned Intelligently
By KEN TERRY Telehealth has been a lifeline for many doctors and patients during the pandemic, and the decisions of CMS and many private payers to cover telehealth…
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Healthcare access, remote physical exams, rural and school health, reimbursement, clinical technology, and the evolving ways care can reach patients.
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ATA CEO: ‘Technology can be used to reimagine experiences’
By Kat Jercich During the opening keynote of the 2020 American Telemedicine Association conference, ATA CEO Ann Mond Johnson pointed to the transformative effect of the COVID-19 pandemic…
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Emergency Declarations and Waiver Authority
Monday, June 22, 2020 The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has issued more than 100 waivers giving healthcare providers the flexibility to meet the demands…
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Why virtual care will outlast the pandemic
With millions of people suddenly video chatting their doctors, there’s pressure on Washington to make telehealth a permanent option. By MOHANA RAVINDRANATH An explosion of virtual care during…
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TELEHEALTH FOR CHRONICALLY ILL PATIENTS GENERATES REVENUE AND BOOSTS CARE
For healthcare providers, telehealth is an opportunity to generate revenue and boost the quality of care when working with chronically ill patients, a chief transformation officer says. Telehealth visits…
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Telehealth is here to stay
As of Wednesday last week, senators of both parties have agreed to make permanent and widespread changes to the restrictions hampering telehealth’s growth. Given the current importance…
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Verma: Fee-for-Service Medicare ‘Insufficient’ to Cover Vulnerable Beneficiaries Post-COVID
By Alex Spanko | June 22, 2020 Early research into the impact of COVID-19 on seniors — both among the general population, and in nursing homes — has revealed endemic…
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Rural Markets May Offer Huge Upside for Home Care Providers Looking to Break into Medicare Advantage
Many home care providers jumped at the chance to create new Medicare Advantage (MA) business lines after the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) began…
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COVID-19 Prompts Expanded Telehealth Reimbursement for FQHCs and RHCs
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to create barriers to in-person care, there has been increased focus on enabling the delivery of healthcare services through telehealth. Congress, the…
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‘I can’t imagine going back’: Medicare leader calls for expanded telehealth access after Covid-19
President Trump’s top Medicare official said Tuesday that expanded access to telemedicine should continue after the coronavirus pandemic recedes and that officials are examining ways to act…
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Telehealth may finally shift health care to be patient-centered
The COVID-19 pandemic has ushered in a new era of telehealth for primary care, and patient-centered care is now easier than ever. This has been the model…
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The COVID-19 Pandemic is Demonstrating the Value of Telehealth and Medicaid is Poised to Capitalize
“Social distancing,” a euphemism for an infection prevention and containment strategy, will undoubtedly live in the annals of meme history for its incredibly disrupting effects on the…
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Covid-19 accelerates remote patient monitoring device market growth
Physicians have been challenged to reinvent their practices in order to accommodate their patients during the Covid-19 pandemic. The growing market of remote patient monitoring (RPM) has…
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‘They Shot from the Hip’: Home Health Providers Sound Off on CMS
The COVID-19 virus has thrown a wrench into any home health care plans the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) initially had for 2020. Instead…
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COVID-19 presents a new chance to make telehealth accessible to the underserved
Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, regulatory, reimbursement and technological changes have all helped trigger a massive and rapid expansion of telehealth accessibility. At the same…
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