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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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Healthcare access, remote physical exams, rural and school health, reimbursement, clinical technology, and the evolving ways care can reach patients.
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Telehealth as a Means to Health Care
The pandemic has changed the way we view healthcare, especially doctor visits for the entire family. The new normal to ensure the health and safety of all…
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Medicare administrator: It’s time to get back to non-Covid health care
Near the outset of the grueling war against Covid-19, President Donald Trump directed my agency, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), to recommend the postponement of…
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Ready or Not … Here Comes a Global Pandemic: A Legal and Practical Overview of the New Normal to Patient Healthcare – Telehealth
What a time to be alive. Despite this phrase being a personal favorite, I would guess that most of us think of these six-words—or some variation thereof—on…
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Sudden Future: The Rise of Telemedicine During COVID-19
When the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic began to spread rapidly in the US in early March, nearly every institution across the country was given a Darwinian ultimatum: adapt,…
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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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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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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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How Will Telehealth Change After the Pandemic?
Sudden adoption of virtual care brings long-term legal challenges as the platform’s popularity outlasts the pandemic. Following previous incremental advancements in telehealth, the COVID-19 pandemic thrust the…
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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…
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New CMS Medicare Advantage Rule Creates Incentives for Providers to Invest in Telehealth
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced Friday it has finalized changes to Medicare Advantage (MA) and Medicare Part D. The changes — detailed in a…
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CMS expands telehealth options for Medicare Advantage plans
A final rule published by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services on Friday would allows Medicare Advantage plans to cover more specialties through telehealth. By ELISE REUTER Post…
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CMS Finalizes Telehealth Reimbursement for MA Plans, ESRD Patients
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has issued a final rule on expanded telehealth coverage for members in Medicare Advantage plans and those living with end-stage…
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New Bill Aims to Give FQHCs, RHCs Relief From Telehealth Paperwork
The bill aims to fix language in the CARES Act that expands Medicare coverage for telehealth, but swamps it in paperwork and in some cases enables clinics…
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