Hospitals that don’t make money often end up shut down. While care quality is important, clinics and hospitals that aren’t profitable have no future. To ensure that isn’t the case, chronic care management solutions like virtual care and remote patient monitoring services are necessary to keep facilities in the green. Here’s how they help improve ROI for […]
The start-up healthcare chain is designed to emphasize wellness and continuity of care through a unique NP-driven model. KEY TAKEAWAYS The Good Clinic’s NP model evolved from the shrinking volume of primary care practices in the United States. Patients need more than urgent care clinics; rising chronic diseases require that healthcare do more continuity of […]
As the Center for Connected Health Policy has continued to update our Telehealth Policy Finder over the course of 2022, a few new elements are beginning to emerge in newly passed legislation and in adopted Medicaid policies. While these may not yet be trends, they have potential to develop into trends, as it is common […]
Telehealth utilization has dropped as the pandemic emergency has waned. For telehealth utilization to meet the higher expectations set during the pandemic, the technology must be wielded for more than just episodic or urgent care. By WAQAAS AL-SIDDIQ May 24, 2022 at 4:53 PM Surveys have shown that most healthcare providers thought telehealth would stay at pandemic levels or […]
Thanks to emerging value-based models and new reimbursement allowances, remote care’s popularity has been growing rapidly. Remote care is being utilized more and more to help improve access and quality of patient care. In honor of patient experience week 2022, we dig into how to enrich the patient experience through four primary remote care models: […]
Remote patient monitoring (RPM) is an important branch, strong augmentation and considerable expansion of telemedicine that has altered the health business. RPM has played a significant part in reducing the risk of Covid-19, and as a result, it has emerged as a viable alternative to in-person medical examinations. Medical practitioners may now manage patients with chronic […]
Chronic care management (CCM) is a model of care recognized by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) for the treatment of chronic care patients. First introduced in 2015, CPT® Code 99490 for CCM services has been joined by four other CPT Codes in the years since, including revisions as recently as January 1, 2022. […]
By: Collin Couey on March 25, 2022 Imagine spending precious time and money setting up a remote patient monitoring program at your practice only to realize it’s too costly to maintain. If you’re on the fence about setting up such a program, you can avoid that worst-case scenario. We’ll break down the ins and outs of remote patient monitoring […]
Care management services are reimbursable remote medical services that provide ongoing care to patients between traditional or remote doctor’s office visits. Such services include chronic care management (CCM), remote patient monitoring (RPM), behavioral health integration (BHI), and many others, with even more services emerging regularly. Since their inception, care management services have largely been conceptualized […]
CMS shows strong support for Chronic Care Management by increasing reimbursement and adding more codes in 2022 CMS released their 2022 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Final Ruling last month and it has some really good news for Chronic Care Management, Complex Chronic Care Management, and Principal Care Management for the year 2022 while some not-so-good news for […]
