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Jun 28, 2021 •COVID-19 - Coronavirus

COVID Spurred Patient Engagement with Remote Patient Monitoring

The pandemic was marked by remote patient monitoring and telehealth use to monitor and manage health at home, but future innovation is needed to meet consumer needs.…

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Jun 28, 2021 •Telehealth

Cassidy, Smith, Cardin, Thune Introduce Bill to Remove Barriers to Telemental Health Care

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), Tina Smith (D-MN), John Thune (R-SD), and Ben Cardin (D-MD) introduced the bipartisan Telemental Health Care Access Act of 2021 to remove…

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Jun 28, 2021 •American Medical Association (AMA)

AMA adopts policies to advance telehealth, close digital divide and tackle prior authorization burdens

At a meeting this week, the American Medical Association’s delegates adopted new policies specifically targeting peer-to-peer review of prior authorization decisions and the particular burden of prior authorization…

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Jun 28, 2021 •Telehealth

Asynchronous Telehealth Can Extend Primary Care at Community Health Networks

At one community health network, asynchronous telehealth is expanding access to primary care services for patients. By Emily Sokol, MPH June 15, 2021 – Store-and-forward or asynchronous telehealth often stays…

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Jun 2, 2021 •Blog

‘Moving beyond dollars and cents’: AMA introduces telehealth framework to grasp value of telehealth

The American Medical Association teamed up with Boston-based Massachusetts General Hospital and New Orleans-based Ochsner Health System on a May report to develop a framework for measuring…

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Jun 1, 2021 •Telehealth

GAO ON TELEHEALTH AND OTHER WAIVERS: ‘CAREFUL MONITORING IS WARRANTED’

WASHINGTON – Members of the Government Accountability Office testified before Congress last week saying, while Medicare beneficiaries and providers have benefitted from program waivers and other flexibilities,…

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May 27, 2021 •Telehealth

Telehealth use in emergency care during coronavirus disease 2019: a systematic review

OBJECTIVE: The coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic has presented emergency departments (EDs) with many challenges to address the acute care needs of patients. Many EDs have leveraged telehealth…

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May 27, 2021 •Telehealth

Pandemic’s telehealth advances will be lost if Congress doesn’t act

The pandemic has proven telehealth is a critical part of effective, efficient and equitable health care, and the AMA is encouraging Congress to act now so patients…

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May 26, 2021 •Telehealth

House Subcommittee Holds Hearing on the Path Forward for Telehealth

The House Ways and Means Health Subcommittee held a hearing on April 28 to discuss the benefits that telehealth has provided during the COVID-19 pandemic and how to maintain…

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May 26, 2021 •Telehealth

Providers push Congress for permanent telehealth capabilities — pandemic’s ‘silver lining’

Long-term care stakeholders are looking forward to telehealth policies remaining a “very, very hot topic” in Congress during the COVID-19 public health emergency, and beyond. Service providers…

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May 26, 2021 •Telehealth

Telehealth: How the Pandemic Is Shaping the Future of Remote Healthcare

As of late March 2021, 475 million people worldwide have received a COVID-19 vaccine. Although a return to normalcy is drawing closer, it is unclear how state…

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May 26, 2021 •Telehealth

Congress to Get Another Shot at Telehealth Coverage for Specialists

Lawmakers have resubmitted the Expanded Telehealth Access Act, which would permanently extend Medicare coverage to telehealth services provided by physical and occupational therapists, audiologists and speech and…

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May 26, 2021 •Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) - Medicare

MedPAC Issues Medicare Payment Policy Report to Congress

On March 15, 2021, the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) released its Medicare Payment Policy report to Congress updating payment recommendations for providers paid under Medicare’s traditional…

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May 26, 2021 •Telehealth

Telehealth Update: States Move to Permanently Expand Access to Telehealth

As previously covered, over the past year the telehealth landscape has been a patchwork of temporary waivers and regulations, expanding access during the COVID-19 pandemic but leaving…

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May 26, 2021 •Telemedicine

FAQs on Telemedicine and HIPAA During the Public Health Emergency

Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, federal agencies have sought to allow health care companies more flexibility to use popular technology and applications to better engage with their patients. One example…

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