Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 19, 2023

Telemedicine technology and services company Teladoc Health is seeing utilization rates among Medicare Advantage members up 54% for virtual urgent care services and up 635% for virtual mental health services when compared to 2019. Medicare utilization of virtual care prior to the pandemic was low, around 7%, mostly due to regulatory barriers.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

The brief, which examined oversight efforts as of January and February 2020, stemmed from a survey of Medicaid directors from 37 states, as well as structured interviews with relevant stakeholders. In response to COVID-19, patients have regularly turned to telemedicine for behavioral health needs. billion in alleged losses.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 5, 2021

In a recent study, researchers examined data from nearly 150,000 unique patients who scheduled telemedicine visits from March 16 to May 11, 2020. In this study, older patients, Asian patients, Medicaid users and non-English speakers were less likely to complete telehealth visits.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 5, 2021

In 2018 and 2019, 36% of the organization's transplanted population were Medicaid and others were in rural areas with poor access to local care, necessitating travel to the center for routine or acute care and follow-up. There are many vendors of telemedicine technology and services on the health IT market today. THE PROBLEM.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 25, 2021

The bill, which was first introduced in July 2020, would help safeguard access to virtual care after COVID-19 via four main provisions. Authorize the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Service to continue reimbursement for telehealth for 90 days beyond the end of the public health emergency. WHY IT MATTERS.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Prior to implementing the telemedicine technology supported by the FCC program funds, Sun River Health had relatively limited and targeted capacity to support remote visits. Mostly, Sun River Health's telemedicine services met the needs of the HIV, Medically Assisted Treatment patients. THE PROBLEM.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 12, 2021

"New Yorkers have adapted throughout 2020, but it is time to push telehealth to the next level in New York State and fully integrate it into our existing healthcare system. Cuomo's proposal would make permanent many flexibilities that are currently in place during the COVID-19 public health emergency.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 22, 2020

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 on telehealth. "This health emergency has launched telehealth" to new heights, Johnson said. But that won't be enough, said Johnson.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 24, 2020

The Physicians Foundation surveyed 3,513 physicians in July 2020 on their perspectives on COVID-19 and how the pandemic has impacted practices and patients. The two impacts impact most physicians as a result of COVID-19 have been experiencing a reduction in income (55%) and increasing the use of telemedicine in the practice (52%).

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 12, 2021

"We first received word about this back in February 2020," explained Kennedy, who is speaker pro tempore of the Rhode Island House of Representatives. Telemedicine, on the other hand, was a much bigger hit – something in which Kennedy takes pride. As a multi-decade legislator, Rhode Island Rep. million, she said.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 26, 2020

"It wasn't perfect, but we did learn a lot," said Rachael-Linn Spooner, vice president of clinical transformation at Northwell Health, in an American Telemedicine Association 2020 deep-dive session on employing telehealth for primary care. "This was part of a population health strategy," said Dr.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 22, 2022

Meanwhile, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services' Center for Program Integrity also announced that it has taken administrative actions against more than 50 healthcare providers alleged to be involved in similar schemes. Polite, Jr. in a statement. billion, according to the department. billion in alleged fraud. ON THE RECORD.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 21, 2021

Healthcare IT News interviewed Sean Cavanaugh, who serves as the chief policy officer and chief commercial officer at Aledade, whose technology offerings include population health and telemedicine. What do providers need to do with what appears to be the new normal of telemedicine? It does not seem like it will be going away.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 19, 2022

It is Brooklyn's tertiary care hub serving diverse communities with large Medicaid, Medicare and uninsured populations. At the time, Maimonides was not engaged in any telemedicine or other digital health initiatives. "Fortunately, we had learned a great deal from our RFI process at the start of 2020," he added.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 2, 2023

To explore the efficacy of primary care telehealth, a recent Epic Research study examined the frequency of in-person physician visits that followed 18,636,522 primary care telemedicine appointments. "We found that patients covered by Medicaid and Medicare had the highest in-person follow-up rates," they said.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 31, 2021

Stay-at-home orders put in place in March 2020 required New York City-based Goodwill NYNJ's offices to close. Early in the pandemic, New York State began allowing providers to bill Medicaid for telehealth services, which greatly impacted Goodwill NYNJ's ability to meet the needs of its mental illness population.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

View Point Health, based in Lawrenceville, Georgia, is a community behavioral health agency serving individuals with Medicaid and uninsured and under-insured individuals. As such, it has limited resources to purchase new equipment and devices for telemedicine and also experiences limited functionality and features in its existing technology.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Caravan Health President and CEO Tim Gronniger previously was chief of staff and director of delivery system reform at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. In 2019 and 2020, its partners earned $300 million in Medicare savings, more than $120 million in shared savings, and quality scores exceeding 97%, the company reported.

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Health Populi

JUNE 3, 2020

There’s been a flurry of research into this question since the hockey-stick growth of telemedicine visits were evident in March 2020, just days after the World Health Organization uttered the “P-word:” pandemic. ” in a May 2020 report out of the company’s consumer survey. Some 3 in 4 U.S.

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Healthcare It News

JULY 19, 2022

There are many vendors of telemedicine technology and services on the health IT market today. intake appointments, group meetings) to telehealth in March 2020 and rolled out a pilot of its proprietary mobile app in April 2021. But consider this – 70% of our members are on Medicaid today. MARKETPLACE. MEETING THE CHALLENGE.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 15, 2023

As an FQHC, 75% of patients are enrolled in Medicaid or Medicare; another 7% are uninsured. THE PROBLEM Prior to 2020 and the COVID-19 pandemic, there were federal and state policies in place that discouraged FQHCs like Ryan Health from adopting telehealth services due to payment restrictions.

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HIT Consultant

JULY 17, 2023

Cessation of PHE telehealth, prescribing, and mental health access exceptions could impact the Medicaid population the most. Twenty-one percent of Medicaid enrollees have mild, moderate, or severe SUD, compared to 16% of commercially insured individuals. And as of the latest data, 7.3% And as of the latest data, 7.3%

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 19, 2022

It enabled mental health providers to quickly shift to delivering care online when social distancing entered everyone’s vocabulary in early 2020. get their health coverage through Medicaid, this is absolutely essential to ensure healthcare equity. Considering that more than one-third of children in the U.S.

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Kim Webb, VP of Health Strategy at Siftwell Analytics Recent advancements in healthcare, such as telemedicine , automation, and clinical studies, have propelled the industry forward, unleashing new possibilities for fostering better patient outcomes. The CDC found that in 2020, 18.4%

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 29, 2024

The American Telemedicine Association and ATA Action in a letter to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services seeks to preserve pandemic-era Medicare telehealth flexibilities that it says are responsible for improving access to healthcare across the U.S. Email: afox@himss.org Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 20, 2021

As the COVID-19 pandemic struck in early 2020, healthcare provider organizations across the country began implementing telehealth technologies and services en masse. Telemedicine finally made it to the mainstream. But only a subset of that group of providers implemented remote patient monitoring. Please elaborate.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 14, 2024

News and Studies Follow-up rates for telehealth and in-office visits have remained consistent since 2020 , according to analysis from Epic Research. That said, telehealth visits are more likely to result in follow-ups at the 7-, 30- and 9-day mark, especially in OB/GYN, podiatry, and internal medicine.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

” [i] “We have moved forward a decade in the use of telemedicine in this country, and it’s going to become and will remain an increasingly important part of physician practices going forward.” i] AMA COVID-19 Update , June 17, 2020. [ii] Anticipated New CMS Rules for Telehealth. ii] [link].

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Medicaid instituted new guidelines and procedure codes to address this new reality, but the turnaround time to implement these changes was very short. In April 2020, the National Council for Behavioral Health discovered through its survey of 880 U.S. THE PROBLEM. " Rod Cook, COPE Community Services. ” MARKETPLACE.

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Health Populi

MAY 21, 2020

adults 18 to 74 years of age in the first week of May 2020. Another 8% had Medicaid or a state health insurance program. One in 5 of people with health insurance were concerned about losing their health plan in the next six months as the coronavirus heats up, recedes, and may re-emerge in the fourth quarter of 2020 into 2021.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

The reality even before the coronavirus crisis emerged in early 2020 was that U.S. One basic pillar of prescription drug access is health care insurance; CoverMyMeds points out that unemployment claims hit record (high) levels in 2020, with millions having lost health coverage. As the COVID-19 crisis led to large parts of the U.S.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Boston Medical Center serves a population largely reliant on Medicaid to support healthcare access. Out of the 1,000 patients monitored during the time period of April 2020 and September 2021, 98.7% "When looking to implement a remote monitoring program, it's important to keep your unique patient experiences top of mind."

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HIT Consultant

AUGUST 17, 2023

They also serve a majority of Medicaid and non-insured patients, which makes it harder to keep the doors open on maternity wards, whose cost of upkeep can be substantial. Incentivizing Medicaid capture. LONG-TERM SOLUTIONS Many longer-term solutions start with using telemedicine and digital health services. Has grown in the U.S.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 17, 2023

CCA specializes in managing complex care for individuals dually eligible for Medicare and Medicaid, as well as those who narrowly miss the threshold for Medicaid. Telemedicine has grown to become an important part of delivering on CCA's mission. Why has telemedicine become a priority for the organization?

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

It enabled mental health providers to quickly shift to delivering care online when social distancing entered everyone’s vocabulary in early 2020. get their health coverage through Medicaid, this is absolutely essential to ensure healthcare equity. Considering that more than one-third of children in the U.S.

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Health Populi

MAY 20, 2020

The findings were published in a May 2020 report , detailing study findings among 2,533 U.S. adults polled in early April 2020. PwC explored how COVID-19 is influencing consumers’ health care behaviors in survey research conducted in early April by the Health Research Institute.

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HIT Consultant

AUGUST 3, 2022

million—between February 2020 and November 2021, with decreasing employment nearly every month. Medicaid reimbursement, which comprises the largest share of nursing home reimbursement, has not kept pace, resulting in SNFs and medical providers assuming the burden of those costs. . million to 1.35 As of late February 2022, 35.9%

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