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Provider Strategies for Mitigating Telehealth Fraud & Abuse in 2021

by Dr. Gary Call, Chief Medical Officer at HMS 01/14/2021 Leave a Comment

Provider Strategies for Mitigating Telehealth Fraud & Abuse in 2021

Dr. Gary Call, Chief Medical Officer at HMS As healthcare spending continues to rise, so too does the inherent risk for bad actors to take advantage. Today, the United States is estimated to spend nearly 18 percent of its GDP, or $3.6 trillion, on healthcare, and is expected to increase to one-fifth of GDP within the next decade, according to the latest data. This alone provides ample motivation for fraud and abuse. While the full extent of healthcare fraud is difficult to measure, The
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Behavioral Health Services Fueled Telehealth Adoption During Pandemic, Study Finds

by Jasmine Pennic 01/11/2021 Leave a Comment

Behavioral Health Services Fueled Telehealth Adoption During Pandemic, Study Finds

What You Should Know: - Telehealth adoption for behavioral health services jumped sharply during the first months of the COVID-19 pandemic shutdown, according to a new RAND Corporation study. Telehealth adoption increased sharply during the first months of the COVID-19 pandemic shutdown, with the approach being used more often for behavioral health services than for medical care, according to a new RAND Corporation study. Prior to the
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12 Telehealth & Virtual Care Predictions and Trends for 2021 Roundup

by Fred Pennic 01/04/2021 Leave a Comment

12 Telehealth & Virtual Care Predictions and Trends for 2021

Dr. Paul Hain, Chief Medical Officer of GoHealth Telehealth is Here to Stay in 2021 Prior to the pandemic, telehealth was a limited ad-hoc service with geographic and provider restrictions. However, with both the pandemic restrictions on face to face interactions and a relaxation of governmental regulations, telehealth utilization has significantly increased from thousands of visits in a week to well over a million in the Medicare population. What we’ve learned is that telehealth allows
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Ensuring Telehealth Providers’ Virtual Care Dollars Make Sense

by Don Godbee, Mobile Solutions Architect at Stratix 12/09/2020 Leave a Comment

Ensuring Telehealth Providers’ Virtual Care Dollars Make Sense

Don Godbee Don Godbee, Mobile Solutions Architect at Stratix Telehealth and virtual care are not brand-new phenomena suddenly cobbled together as a rapid response to the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, but the average US patient could be forgiven for thinking that it is. Indeed, virtual visits to care providers and remote patient monitoring have been available for quite some time, delivering two key benefits:  - Providing a platform to address cost-efficiencies and accessibility to
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Rural Hospital Execs Can Beat COVID-19 By Shifting From Reactive to Proactive Care

by Donald Voltz, MD, Aultman Hospital and Eric Tran, Tulane School of Medicine 10/23/2020 Leave a Comment

Rural Hospital Execs Can Beat COVID-19 By Shifting From Reactive to Proactive Care

Eric Tran, Tulane School of MedicineDonald Voltz, MD, Aultman Hospital The COVID-19 virus is ravaging the planet at a scale not seen since the infamous Spanish Flu of the early 1900s, inflicting immense devastation as the U.S. loses more than 200,000 lives and counting. According to CDC statistics, 94% of patient mortalities associated with COVID-19 were simultaneously suffering from preexisting conditions, leaving a mere 6% of victims with COVID-19 as their sole cause of death. However,
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Veterans Affairs Expands Telehealth Services Using Nuance Dragon Medical One

by Fred Pennic 10/16/2020 Leave a Comment

Veterans Affairs Expands Telehealth Services Using Nuance Dragon Medical One

What You Should Know: - Nuance Communications, Inc. announced the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is using the Nuance Dragon Medical One speech recognition cloud platform and its mobile app, PowerMic Mobile. - The solution helps VA doctors better document patient care in-person, and now remotely through expanded telehealth services necessary in the COVID-19 era. Nuance® Communications, Inc. today announced that the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is using
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Press Ganey Acquires Doctor.com, Acquires Majority Stake in Binary Fountain

by Fred Pennic 10/14/2020 Leave a Comment

Press Ganey Acquires Doctor.com, Acquires Majority Stake in Binary Fountain

What You Should Know: - Press Ganey advances the healthcare consumerism movement with acquisitions of Doctor.com and a majority stake in Binary Fountain. - Expanded technology platform enables industry-leading management of providers’ online brand and seamless Web-wide patient acquisition and loyalty strategies. Press Ganey today announced the expansion of its market-leading health care consumerism platform with the acquisitions of Doctor.com and a majority equity stake in Binary
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3 Telemedicine Security and Compliance Best Practices

by Gerry Miller, Founder & CEO at Cloudticity 10/08/2020 Leave a Comment

3 Telemedicine Security and Compliance Best Practices

Gerry Miller, Founder & CEO at Cloudticity The coronavirus pandemic accelerated telemedicine exponentially as patients and doctors switched from in-person visits to remote consultations. Health providers rapidly scaled virtual offerings in March and April and traffic volumes soared to unprecedented levels, with practices “seeing 50 to 175 times the number of patients by telehealth than before the outbreak,” according to McKinsey. By early August, the U.S. Department of Health and
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Digital Behavioral Health: Addressing The COVID-19 Behavioral Health Crisis

by Victor Siclovan, Director on the Medicaid Transformation Project at AVIA 10/05/2020 Leave a Comment

digital behavioral health and addressing the COVID-19 behavioral health crisis

Victor Siclovan, Director of Medicaid Transformation Project at AVIA Living through a pandemic is stressful and anxiety-inducing. Stay-at-home measures are compounding this stress, resulting in social isolation and unprecedented economic hardship, including mass layoffs and loss of health coverage. Fully understanding the impact of these pernicious trends on overall mental health will take time. However, precedents like the Great Recession suggest that these trends are likely to worsen the
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Amwell and Cigna Ranks High in Telehealth Patient Satisfaction, J.D. Power Finds

by Fred Pennic 10/02/2020 Leave a Comment

Amwell and Cigna Ranks High in Telehealth Patient Satisfaction, J.D. Power Finds

What You Should Know: - Amwell ranks highest among direct to consumer brands and Cigna ranks highest among health plans for telehealth patient satisfaction, according to the J.D. Power 2020 U.S. Telehealth Satisfaction Study - Though telehealth has been pitched as a solution to improve access to healthcare for everyone, more than half (52%) of telehealth users say they encountered at least one barrier that made it difficult to use telehealth. Patient satisfaction with
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