During the first year of the COVID-19 public health emergency, Medicare improperly paid for $580 million of psychotherapy care, including $348 million of telehealth services, according to an audit by the Department of Health…
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By Mark Melchionna
May 08, 2023 – Led by Sen. Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), a group of US senators have urged the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) to permanently establish telehealth flexibilities in prescribing buprenorphine for opioid…
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According to a digital health trends report by Simon-Kucher, healthcare providers remain cautious about adopting digital health products, despite a positive trend in the use of digital health solutions. Concerns about product effectiveness, compliance…
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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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