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CMS Proposes Calendar Year 2021 Payment and Policy Changes for Home Health Agencies and Calendar Year 2021 Home Infusion Therapy Benefit

Today, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a proposed rule [CMS-1730-P] that proposes routine updates to the home health payment rates for calendar year (CY) 2021, in accordance with existing statutory and regulatory requirements. This proposed rule also includes a proposal to make permanent the regulatory changes related to telecommunications technologies in […]

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3 Barriers to Implementing Home-Based Healthcare

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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 pandemic has dramatically shifted the ways in which patients access medical care. An Epic Health Research Network study found that between mid-March and mid-April, 2020, telemedicine appointments grew at a […]

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Equal Pay for Telehealth Vital After Pandemic, Senate Told

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Equal Pay for Telehealth Vital After Pandemic, Senate Told

Virtual doctor visits should pay the same rate as in-office checkups even after the Covid-19 pandemic ends, telehealth advocates told a Senate health panel. The Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee hosted a panel Wednesday to consider what recent telehealth changes to keep once the public health emergency ends. Various lawmakers including Chairman Lamar […]

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Telehealth Has Gone Mainstream

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Telehealth Has Gone Mainstream

COVID-19 has altered the way we live, day to day. One way it has changed us is how we access healthcare. As diabetics, we must continue to stay connected to our doctors. Telehealth has emerged, during this challenging time, as the safest and most beneficial way for diabetics to connect with their providers regularly. Since […]

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Sens. Push To Solidify Emergency Telehealth Expansion

A bipartisan group of 30 senators are calling on Senate leaders to permanently retain programs that expanded telehealth services during the COVID-19 pandemic. The group, led by Sens. Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii, and Roger Wicker, R-Miss., said Monday in a letter that certain provisions included in recent virus-related legislation that expanded telehealth offerings for Medicare beneficiaries […]

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Senators: Make Telehealth Flexibilities Permanent for Hospice, Other Settings

A group of U.S. Senators are calling on their colleagues in Congress and federal agencies to make permanent the increased availability of telehealth that was established temporarily to maintain continuity of care while limiting the spread of COVID-19. The lawmakers made their views known in a letter penned by Sen. Brian Schatz (D-Hawai) to Senate […]

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Telehealth May Help Rural Americans Keep the Weight Off

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Telehealth May Help Rural Americans Keep the Weight Off

By Serena GordonHealthDay Reporter New research suggests that telehealth counseling after weight loss may be just the support that people in rural areas need to maintain their weight loss long-term. At the 12-month point in the study, people who had individual telephone counseling had maintained an average of 100% of their weight loss. Other studies […]

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Telehealth is here to stay

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Which Telehealth Changes Will Become Permanent? Hints May Come Next Month

Four months since the start of the public health emergency arising from the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, one of the most acknowledged silver linings for providers and patients is the expanded use of telehealth. During a session on telehealth at the National Association of ACOs (NAACOS) 2020 Virtual Spring Conference, viewers were told to […]

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Lawmakers introduce bill to make Medicare coverage permanent for certain telehealth services

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Lawmakers introduce bill to make Medicare coverage permanent for certain telehealth services

U.S. Reps. G.K. Butterfield, D-N.C., and Glenn Thompson, R-Pa., introduced a bill on June 12 that would codify Medicare reimbursement for community health centers and rural health clinics for telehealth services. The Helping Ensure Access to Local TeleHealth Act would permanently extend benefits and access of telehealth to more seniors, regardless of their geographic location. The legislation […]

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Senior Telehealth Use Continues to Rise, Despite Home Health Limitations

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Senior Telehealth Use Continues to Rise, Despite Home Health Limitations

By Bailey Bryant | June 15, 2020 The health care sector has long had the capability to use telehealth, but it took the COVID-19 emergency to prompt widespread adoption. After three months of the crisis, emerging data is now making the sweeping rate of that adoption clearer. Seniors are among the most susceptible to the COVID-19 virus. Recently […]

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Bipartisan letter signed urging expansion of access to telehealth services for Medicare beneficiaries

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Bipartisan letter signed urging expansion of access to telehealth services for Medicare beneficiaries

WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Senator Jacky Rosen, a member of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP), joined a bipartisan letter led by Senators Brian Schatz and Roger Wicker to Senate Leadership urging them to make permanent the provisions from the CONNECT for Health Act that were included in the CARES Act to […]

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4 Telehealth Concerns For Care Management After COVID-19

By Sarah Blumenthal and Richard Harris The COVID-19 pandemic has stirred an urgent need for alternative approaches to patient health assessments, patient monitoring and patient education to reduce additional population exposure to the virus and ease the financial and psychological toll on health care providers and facilities. While some providers and payers utilized remote care management […]

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Hello, Opportunity Here. Is Anyone Home? — COVID-19 gives us a chance to re-make our healthcare system for the better

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Hello, Opportunity Here. Is Anyone Home? — COVID-19 gives us a chance to re-make our healthcare system for the better

Restart? Revamp? Revive? Renew? No one’s totally sure what we should be calling this, this reconfiguration (maybe that’s the word?), but it must be the brave new world of how we practice medicine in the post-COVID-19 era, on the downslope of the pandemic we’ve just come through, and then on to the future of healthcare. […]

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The FCC distributed $100 million to health systems in order to improve telehealth infrastructure

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) allocated nearly $105 million in funding to over 300 healthcare providers to boost telehealth infrastructure as coronavirus outbreaks continue, per Fierce Healthcare. The CARES Act reserved $200 million for telehealth funding in March — and the FCC’s latest distribution of funds doles out aid to larger health systems, including $1 million to […]

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Congress Questions FCC on Details of COVID-19 Telehealth Program

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Congress Questions FCC on Details of COVID-19 Telehealth Program

Congress is asking the FCC to provide weekly reports, beginning this week, on the number of providers approved for funding from the telehealth program, as well as those not approved and how much money has been dispersed. By Eric Wicklund June 15, 2020 – Congress is growing increasingly worried that the Federal Communications Commission’s COVID-19 Telehealth Program isn’t […]

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