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Mar 11, 2020 Blog

CMS Issues COVID-19 Prevention Guidance for Hospices

The U.S. Centers for Health & Human Services (CMS) has issued guidelines for protecting health care workers who operate in the home and community from COVID-19, including hospice providers. …

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Mar 11, 2020 Blog

Pence: Major health insurers have agreed to waive copays for coronavirus tests

Vice President Pence said Tuesday that a group of major health insurance companies have agreed not to charge patients copays when they get tested for coronavirus. Pence…

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Mar 11, 2020 Blog

COVID19-Coronavirus Disease-CDC Protects and Prepares Communities

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Mar 11, 2020 Blog

To Avoid Quarantining Healthcare Workers, Hospitals Expand Telehealth to Screen for COVID-19

Thanks to COVID-19, we’re running low on personal protective equipment (PPE), hand sanitizers, and allegedly, in some cases, responsible oversight of government responders. Now it appears that we may run low…

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Mar 11, 2020 Blog

Industry Leans on Telehealth to Tackle COVID-19 Outbreak

As the COVID-19 outbreak encroaches into communities across the US, payers, providers, and vendors are using telehealth to expand access to care. By Samantha McGrail March 10, 2020 – Blue…

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Mar 11, 2020 Blog

How Are Payers Covering COVID-19 Testing for High-Risk Patients?

Populations most vulnerable to high out-of-pocket costs for COVID-19 testing include low-income, uninsured, underinsured, and immigrants. Source: Getty ImagesShare on Twitter By Kelsey Waddill March 09, 2020 – As the…

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Mar 11, 2020 Blog

CMS Issues Home Health COVID-19 Guidance, Eases Supplies Standards

After days of issuing updated guidance for skilled nursing operators and other Medicare providers regarding COVID-19, the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is now…

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Mar 10, 2020 aTouchAway

Coronavirus Scare Likely to Boost Telehealth Adoption Among Home-Based Care Providers

On Thursday, the Senate approved a bill that will provide $8.3 billion in emergency funds to help mitigate the effects of COVID-19, otherwise known as the coronavirus.…

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Mar 10, 2020 Blog

COVID-19 Update: Reimbursement issues – Who is picking up the tab for coronavirus testing?

Insurance coverageIn a statement on March 6, 2020, the Board of Directors for America’s Health Insurance Plans (AHIP) announced that insurers are voluntarily covering the diagnostic testing of COVID-19…

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Mar 9, 2020 aTouchAway

Telehealth Shaping Up for COVID-19

Cardiology illustrates what specialties can do to be ready As COVID-19 coronavirus encroaches into communities across the U.S., cardiology’s use of telemedicine could set a precedent for…

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Mar 8, 2020 Blog

AS CORONAVIRUS SPREADS, MEDICARE GETS TELEMEDICINE OPTION

WASHINGTON (AP) — The coronavirus legislation signed by President Donald Trump on Friday lets Medicare expand the use of telemedicine in outbreak areas, potentially reducing infection risks…

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Mar 7, 2020 Blog

TELEHEALTH’S BIG MOMENT, WITH CAVEATS

Despite a win in the $8.3 billion coronavirus package, telehealth advocates and their allies in Congress are still pushing for broader changes, they tell us. A provision in…

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Mar 7, 2020 Blog

Feds look to telehealth to rein in Covid-19 coronavirus

If brick-and-mortar facilities are overloaded, “keeping people out of the health care system physically could be in everybody’s interest.” By Allison Bell | March 06, 2020 at 10:43 AM The…

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Mar 7, 2020 Blog

How technology can help to contain COVID-19 — and how it can’t

As the world navigates the coronavirus outbreak, a few key technologically advanced tools are front and center in the fight to contain COVID-19. Digital tools like telehealth, consumer-facing…

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Mar 7, 2020 Blog

Coronavirus Bill Lifts Some Restrictions on Telehealth

Allows for broadband-delivered house calls to Medicare recipients Congress is employing broadband in the fight against the coronavirus. The COVD-19 supplemental funding packagethat was signed by President Trump…

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