Category: ROI

A Quick Reference Guide to Remote Patient Monitoring During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) is real-time or near real-time evaluation of a patient’s clinical status outside of a traditional healthcare setting. RPM leverages wireless devices (e.g., weight scale, blood pressure monitor), often integrated with a software platform, to monitor patients’ health status. Providers can use RPM to manage patients...
July 20, 2020 Dr. M Telehealth COVID-19 - Coronavirus, Current Procedural Terminology (CPT®) code set, Medicaid, Medicare, Reimbursement, Remote Patient Monitoring, ROI, Telehealth, Telemedicine.
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Feasibility and Acceptability of Using a Telehealth Platform to Monitor Cardiovascular Risk Factors

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Feasibility and Acceptability of Using a Telehealth Platform to Monitor Cardiovascular Risk Factors in Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation Survivors at Risk for Cardiovascular Disease EllenChang1, AleksiIukuridze2, MeaganEchevarria2, Jennifer BeranoTeh2, DayanaChanson2, BonnieKy3, Eric J.Chow4, RyotaroNakamura5, LanieLindenfeld2, Saro H.Armenian2 1Department of Hematology and Oncology, Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 2Department...
July 10, 2020 Dr. M Telehealth aTouchAway, Chronic Disease, Remote Patient Monitoring, ROI, Telehealth, Telemedicine, Virtual Exam and Virtual Care.
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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 final rule for 2021 — partly seek to strengthen access to telehealth services, an increasingly important component of the health care system amid...
Dr. M Telehealth aTouchAway, Medicare, Medicare Advantage (MA), Medicare Part D, Reimbursement, Remote Patient Monitoring, ROI, Telehealth, Telemedicine.
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Telehealth Policy in a Post-COVID-19 World – Insights from CCHP’s Executive Director

During the COVID-19 crisis, there has been unprecedented interest in the use of telehealth as its unique qualities make it an invaluable tool when faced with a highly infectious disease.  Pre-COVID-19 telehealth policy barriers have been removed at a rapid rate, however, these changes are temporary.  Once the initial...
May 19, 2020 Dr. M Telehealth CARES ACT, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), COVID-19 - Coronavirus, Health and Human Services, Home Health Agencies, Hospice, Legislation, Medicare, Reimbursement, Remote Patient Monitoring, ROI, Rural Health Clinics, Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF), Telehealth, Telemedicine, Virtual Exam and Virtual Care.
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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is rolling out a new telehealth-enabled payment model for 911 triage

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has selected more than 200 emergency transport providers to participate in its Emergency Triage, Treat and Transport (ET3) model — a new payment model that leverages mHealth and telehealth to reimburse Medicare-enrolled ambulance providers that triage 911 calls, according to mHealthIntelligence. The CMS’...
March 3, 2020 Dr. M Telehealth Medicare, Reimbursement, Remote Patient Monitoring, ROI, Telehealth, Telemedicine, Virtual Exam and Virtual Care.
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Here’s what providers need to know as RPM is poised for take-off with new CMS rules

With the new CMS rules going into effect in 2020, providers have more opportunity than ever before to seize these benefits by collecting critical patient information while streamlining talent and spatial resources. By Christopher McCann This past fall, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issued its final...
January 7, 2020 Dr. M Telehealth Current Procedural Terminology (CPT®) code set, Medicare, Reimbursement, Remote Patient Monitoring, ROI, Telehealth.
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2020 Vision – Better Connectivity is Helping Health Care – aTouchAway Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) Platform Experiencing Exponential Growth

A patient’s ‘circle of care’ can include relatives, friends, a spiritual adviser or the pharmacist, not just doctors, nurses, or telehealth clinicians. Technology is helping bring them all together. BRIGITTE PELLERINJanuary 3, 2020 A fresh decade means fresh ideas. Brigitte Pellerin talks to some of the local people who...
January 4, 2020 Dr. M Telehealth aTouchAway, Medicaid, Medicare, Medicare Advantage (MA), Reimbursement, Remote Patient Monitoring, ROI, Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF), Telehealth, Telemedicine.
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Remote Patient Monitoring Brings Healthcare To Your Home

There was a time when people who were ill kept to their sick beds at home, but 20th-century advances in medical technology made it necessary (and beneficial) for many people to stay in the hospital for constant monitoring. However, further leaps and bounds in tech are now making it...
November 29, 2019 Dr. M Telehealth aTouchAway, Reimbursement, Remote Patient Monitoring, ROI, Telehealth, Telemedicine, TytoCare, Virtual Exam and Virtual Care.
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Telehealth creates a new kind of health care experience

Maria knew something was wrong.  A working mom in her mid-thirties, Maria has diabetes — and she was feeling more fatigued than usual. She thought it could be a urinary tract infection (UTI), so she booked a video visit — a virtual consultation with a physician. The doctor agreed...
November 15, 2019 Dr. M Telehealth aTouchAway, Medicare, Reimbursement, Remote Patient Monitoring, ROI, Telehealth, Telemedicine, Virtual Exam and Virtual Care.
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Bipartisan support keeps telehealth adoption moving forward

Over the last decade, few issues in politics have been more polarizing than healthcare. It’s driven a deep wedge between Democrats and Republicans, particularly following the passage of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and the subsequent efforts to repeal it, and has caused rifts within those parties. Yet despite...
October 10, 2019 Dr. M Telehealth Chronic Disease, Medicaid, Medicare, Reimbursement, Remote Patient Monitoring, ROI, Telehealth, Telemedicine, Virtual Exam and Virtual Care.
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