Home Health Care

DECEMBER 6, 2023

ACHC is recognized by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) as a deeming authority for home health and hospice. ACHC is committed to developing and updating accreditation standards for home-based care agencies, ensuring alignment with current regulations and offering clear guidelines for compliance.

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Cloud Blogs

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

In 2020, the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services (CMS) issued additional rules requiring that payors and providers who receive CMS funds make health information more accessible. Overall, regulators have made clear their intention to eliminate barriers to interoperability and provide patients greater control of their healthcare.

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 5, 2022

We have also studied the impact of telehealth on the quality of our care, and found that our telemedicine outcomes have been equivalent to our brick-and-mortar ones (the results are under peer review). Telemedicine is poised to address these access gaps if it remains legal as public-health emergency orders expire.

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Etactics

APRIL 5, 2024

Telemedicine, also known as telehealth, is remote medical care. Telemedicine uses telecommunications technology to provide services. Telemedicine opens the door to treating patients from the comfort of their own homes and beyond. Healthcare providers must understand correct billing practices regarding telemedicine.

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Health Populi

MAY 20, 2020

Payors, both commercial and public sector (Medicare, Medicaid), have relaxed rules and regulations for telehealth across platforms (from purpose-built telemedicine programs to HIPAA-relaxed approvals for using FaceTime, Zoom, and other commercial channels), and have various plans to pay for virtual care visits between clinicians and patients.

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Health Populi

JUNE 24, 2021

While telehealth and virtual care stood up quickly in 2020, questions remain about how it will/can persist in terms of funding, regulation, and business models. We also expect innovation to come out of pharma and biotech labs, and who will pay for new-new therapies?

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Amy Miller, Director of Strategic Alliances at AMD Global Telemedicine Key Takeaways: School-based telehealth programs provide immediate medical attention to students, reducing absenteeism and improving overall health outcomes. Select secure, user-friendly telehealth platforms that comply with privacy regulations like HIPAA.

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Icanotes

MARCH 9, 2022

Mental health parity provides a sense of equality for those seeking medical treatment in the form of telemedicine. If a patient has an insurance plan with parity that would grant them unlimited medical visits in person, they have the right to equal treatment and care for their condition through telemedicine and telehealth.

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Cloud Blogs

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

In 2020, the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services (CMS) issued additional rules requiring that payors and providers who receive CMS funds make health information more accessible. Overall, regulators have made clear their intention to eliminate barriers to interoperability and provide patients greater control of their healthcare.

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HIT Consultant

APRIL 4, 2023

In the realm of telehealth delivery—perhaps the biggest area of healthcare expansion during the pandemic—telemedicine will officially lose its status as an excepted benefit2 and certain federal penalties for HIPAA non-compliance of telehealth platforms will be reinstated.

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Telemedicine Medicaid Medicare Regulations 52

Sequence Health

MARCH 11, 2025

The use of sophisticated systems like Televoxs automated reminder service has demonstrated success, particularly in reducing no-show rates among Medicaid recipients by reminding them about impending appointments. Why is compliance with healthcare regulations important for call centers?

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Sequence Health

MARCH 11, 2025

The use of sophisticated systems like Televoxs automated reminder service has demonstrated success, particularly in reducing no-show rates among Medicaid recipients by reminding them about impending appointments. Why is compliance with healthcare regulations important for call centers?

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Regulations Healthcare Providers Healthcare Accountability 52

NASHP

MARCH 22, 2024

As major purchasers, administrators, and regulators of behavioral health treatment and supports, states play a critical role in system transformation. In addition to expanding Medicaid, North Carolina’s FY2024 budget allocates over $835 million for mental health and substance abuse investments under Medicaid.

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Sheppard Health Law

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Congress’s expansion of access to telehealth takes steps to ensure continuity of care for Medicare beneficiaries and provides regulators with additional time to determine which flexibilities will become permanent, indicating a success for the telehealth industry as well as a reminder that there is more legislation to come.

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Etactics

JANUARY 24, 2023

These were then forwarded to purported “telemedicine” vendors. They participated in kickback fraud by paying bribes to telemedicine companies in exchange for doctors’ orders for genetic tests and equipment. They also received medically unnecessary services billed to Medicare and Medicaid.

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Healthcare It News

DECEMBER 5, 2022

What I have been most excited about is the acceleration in the concrete steps that Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services states and accreditation organizations are taking to inspire action in the space of health equity. At the same time, we are seeing state Medicaid programs taking novel approaches to tackling issues of health equity.

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Telemedicine Medicaid Hospitals Healthcare Innovation 348

NASHP

DECEMBER 7, 2022

The executive and legislative branches both play a critical role in setting forth policy vision and codifying policies in statute and regulation. Though lack of broadband access and unfamiliarity with technology are barriers, telemedicine has been shown to improve access to care and health outcomes in rural communities.

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NASHP

MARCH 29, 2024

Approaches include allowing family caregivers to receive Medicaid reimbursement , providing culturally competent trainings and peer supports, making respite care more accessible for caregivers, and offering behavioral health supports for caregivers. recruitment, consultation resources, Medicaid reimbursement, etc.).

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Home Health Care

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Delivering person-centered care requires addressing a wide range of needs, from primary and preventive services to the management of chronic conditions, acute episodes of care, and social and behavioral health needs, as noted by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 6, 2022

trillion Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2022, which extended Medicare coverage related to telemedicine practices. For example, some states’ Medicaid programs now provide coverage for certain services supplied through audio-only modalities. Below are more key insights from the industry progress: 1.

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Home Health Care

JULY 19, 2022

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) took the time to map out the federal agency’s strategic plans and key initiatives moving forward. trillion American Rescue Plan , state Medicaid programs received a boost in funding for home- and community-based services. Last year, as part of the $1.9

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 14, 2025

Knowing that patients may wait a year-plus for a specialist appointment, I cant emphasize enough the importance of two things: preventative care and telemedicine. Patients may also be unaware of how broadly telemedicine has been adopted over the past few years in order to expand access to care, including at their local hospital.

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Bill Of Health

JANUARY 3, 2023

A potential constitutional basis for federal licensure could hinge on the Commerce Clause in Article I, which grants Congress the power “To regulate commerce with foreign nations, and among the several states, and with the Indian tribes.”. Michael Young cites the Court’s 1995 ruling in United States v. Tenth Amendment and “Police Power”.

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Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 17, 2022

There is also the matter that open enrollment begins on November 1, and without the relaxed enrollment provisions for Medicaid that the PHE provides, the national uninsured rate along with health premium costs would certainly rise. "And so patients are continuing to get their mental healthcare largely through telemedicine."

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Women, being Chief Health Officers of their Families, influencing 80% of health care decisions, well know how to connect the dots between health care costs and their household financial wellness.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 16, 2021

health consumers, prescribers, and pharma manufacturers wait on regulation and policy to sort out health politics between now and the 2022 mid-term elections, the private sector (and State Medicaid programs) move at their will and make decisions based on current market conditions and certainties.

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ACHE

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Within HHS, we do not know yet who will lead the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, although a policy official instrumental in passing the ACA, Chiquita Brooks-LaSure , is said to be a leading candidate , as is Mandy Cohen, MD , the Secretary of the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services.

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