Telehealth
Understanding Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM)
Remote patient monitoring is a term used when a healthcare provider gives you a device to track aspects of your health at home. Information from the device is sent to your provider. Why is remote patient monitoring used? Your healthcare provider may want to track aspects of your health daily or weekly. This can help […]
Executive Summary: Tracking Telehealth Changes State-by-State in Response to COVID-19 (UPDATED)
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues across the United States, states, payers, and providers are looking for ways to expand access to telehealth services. Telehealth is an essential tool in ensuring patients are able to access the healthcare services they need in as safe a manner as possible. In order to provide our clients with quick […]
How to Utilize Telehealth Services in 2023 for Improved Quality of Life as a Senior
Recently, technology has transformed the definition of what a “medical appointment” looks like. Now, some medical appointments are done at home in front of a computer. This virtual medical visit trend is providing seniors with more autonomy when it comes to their healthcare services. Telehealth services are here to stay and allow seniors more freedom […]
Telehealth Is Proving to be a Boon to Cancer and Diabetes Care
Like many people, I was introduced to telehealth during the pandemic. I met with my psychiatrist virtually, settling onto my couch instead of hers for our sessions. But those appointments required only a conversation. It made sense that psychotherapy easily made a switch to the online world. What’s more surprising is how often telehealth now […]
How Telehealth Policy is Evolving at the State Level
March 09, 2023 – The COVID-19 pandemic spurred telehealth use to new heights, with policy changes and flexibilities enacted at the state and federal levels supporting the rapid integration of telehealth into routine care delivery. But now, with the public health emergency ending on May 11, lawmakers are evaluating how telehealth policy needs to evolve to continue […]
What to expect now that we’re expecting: What the end of the public health emergency means for healthcare providers Part 2: Guidance on telehealth
I. Introduction On January 30, 2023, the Biden Administration announced its plan to end the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency (PHE) on May 11, 2023. As discussed here, the PHE declarations have allowed the federal government to waive and modify certain Medicare, Medicaid, and Children’s Health Insurance program requirements and provide liability immunity to providers to administer services. With […]
How to Bill for Physical Therapy Telehealth Services in 2023
Many physical therapy centers began providing telehealth at the start of the COVID- 19 public health emergency (PHE). In 2020, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) CMS added 11 new services to the list of telehealth services covered by Medicare during the COVID-19. The CY 2023 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (PFS) final rule […]
CMS Waivers, Flexibilities, and the Transition Forward from the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency
Feb 27, 2023 Based on current COVID-19 trends, the Department of Health and Human Services is planning for the federal Public Health Emergency for COVID-19 (PHE), declared under Section 319 of the Public Health Service Act, to expire at the end of the day on May 11, 2023. Thanks to the Administration’s whole-of-government approach to combatting […]
American Hospital Association voices support for telehealth expansion bill
Jeff Lagasse, Associate Editor The American Hospital Association has come out in support of bipartisan legislation, introduced in the House of Representatives, that would require the Department of Health and Human Services, Medicare Payment Advisory Commission, and Medicaid and CHIP Payment and Access Commission to study expanded telehealth use during the COVID-19 pandemic and recommend potential enhancements to telehealth access and […]
Executive Summary: Tracking Telehealth Changes State-by-State in Response to COVID-19 -February 2023
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues across the United States, states, payers, and providers are looking for ways to expand access to telehealth services. Telehealth is an essential tool in ensuring patients are able to access the healthcare services they need in as safe a manner as possible. In order to provide our clients with quick […]