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May
stored in: Tim Rowan's Home Care Technology Report and tagged: Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs), care management, heart failure (HF) patient costs, heart failure demonstration project, heart failure patients, home health billing, home healthcare reimbursement, home telehealth payors, home telehealth reimbursement, home telehealthcare services, Medicaid and home telehealth reimbursement, Medicare payments, patient engagement, patient self management, patient telemonitoring, Robert Bosch Healthcare, S codes
Since January, an ‘S’ code has been available to identify, and possibly bill for, telehealth services. CMS created it but does not recognize it, of course, on Medicare claims. Nevertheless, its existence means home healthcare agencies are able to introduce it to other payers, such as Managed Care Organizations and state Medicaid offices. Details […]
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15
May
stored in: Tim Rowan's Home Care Technology Report and tagged: commercial pharmacy health sites, electronic health records (EHRs), health insurers, home telehealth reimbursement, home telehealth visits, Medicare, non-urgent care delivery, patient care trends, payors, primary care physician services, teleconsultations, telehealth reimbursement, Vendor News, virtual visits
By Audrey Kinsella Health insurers covering alternate site telehealthcare for self-insured customers…an emerging trend? Reimbursement – or, rather, the lack of it – has long been the critical barrier impeding widespread use of alternate site telehealthcare, including services provided in the patient’s home. For more than a decade, home healthcare providers have cited Medicare’s refusal […]
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