The Kaiser Family Foundation has created a new tool to track changes in Medicaid enrollment during redeterminations following the end of the COVID-19 pandemic’s continuous enrollment requirement. Arizona has been the only state to…
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The U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) will extend telemedicine flexibilities around the prescription of certain controlled medications as it considers stakeholder feedback on proposed rules for post-COVID remote prescribing guardrails. The DEA received over…
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In the first year of Covid-19, Medicare paid providers $1 billion for psychotherapy services, and $580 million were improper payments, including $348 million that were for telehealth services, a recent audit by the Office…
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Global healthcare company AmerisourceBergen has announced a strategic partnership with business-to-business telehealth provider SteadyMD, beginning with the companies co-creating and piloting a telehealth offering for independent community pharmacies dubbed Test to Treat. The Test to…
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When consultancy Simon-Kucher conducted its digital health trends survey in 2019, partner Jan Bordon was surprised by the digital immaturity of many healthcare and life science companies.That changed in 2022 as the COVID-19 pandemic…
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By Sarai Rodriguez
May 05, 2023 – For patients who speak languages other than English, including the millions of immigrants in the US, language barriers have hindered COVID-19 vaccine access. Consequently, these barriers impacted the risk…
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By Mark Melchionna
May 05, 2023 – The Telehealth Service Implementation Model (TSIM), which originated from the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC), will begin a new online training course to assist telehealth leaders in optimizing…
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With the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency set to expire on May 11, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency says it will temporarily extend telemedicine flexibilities around prescription of certain controlled medications as it sifts through…
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The Leapfrog Group has published its Spring 2023 Hospital Safety Grades, highlighting a surge in three dangerous healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) across acute care settings in the US. The report found double-digit increases in MRSA,…
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The new my health app is a secure and convenient way to access My Health Record on your mobile, whenever or wherever you need it. Download now from the Apple App Store or Google…
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