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Over the past several months, providers and their patients have had to ramp up telehealth in a hurry. Although reviews are early, usage is on the rise and both clearly acknowledge the potential for telehealth in everyday practice. But providers also say they struggle to “see” as many patients a day through telehealth as they […]
Federal regulators and private insurers have made sweeping, but temporary expansions of telehealth coverage in response to the Covid-19 pandemic. Senators gathered on Monday to address the looming question: which of those changes should stay? Since the start of the pandemic, there have been 31 major federal policy changes, including allowing Medicare patients to have […]
Dr. Shiv Rao, a cardiologist at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC), was put in a patient’s shoes when he and his wife found out they had a rare disease in their family. “It was my first time being in the other side of the room. I had to experience information asymmetry,” Rao said. […]
Health IT company athenahealth is the latest to dip its toe into telehealth as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic. The company’s bread and butter is its cloud-based EHR and practice management software, but after seeing an influx of virtual visits, athenahealth rolled out a new telehealth service for its users. From mid-February to late […]
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) will allow Medicare Advantage plans to cover a wider range of telehealth services. The new rule would give Medicare Advantage plans the flexibility to count certain telehealth specialists toward network adequacy requirements, including dermatology, psychiatry, cardiology, and primary care. The agency said the changes were designed to […]
As more patient visits take place online during the Covid-19 pandemic, most commercial insurers have expanded their telehealth coverage. Now, healthcare providers are waiting to see if those changes will last. Tennessee’s largest commercial insurer was one of the first to signal its continued coverage of telehealth. Last week, it updated its plans to permanently […]
[unable to retrieve full-text content] Doximity launched a new telehealth app to allow physicians to launch a HIPAA-compliant video call with patients. The tool will be free for physician practices until January. MedCity News