by Liz Seegert Having spent most of his career in and around the Washington, DC bureaucracy, Jonathan Linkous, CEO of the American Telemedicine Association (ATA), has cut through his share of red tape and senseless regulations. This month’s reshuffling of federal Standard Metropolitan Statistical Areas, however, which disqualified 97 counties from Medicare telemedicine reimbursement, […]
What does it mean when more than three-quarters of payment denials handed down by Medicare contractors are voided by Administrative Law Judges when appealed? Our conclusion, based on interviews over the years with home health care consultants who specialize in walking agencies through the appeal process, is that auditors at the RHHI, MAC, ZPIC […]
VGo Communications Inc. is teaming with Visiting Nurse and Hospice of Vermont and New Hampshire to offer telepresence robots to patients. Four remotely-driven robots will be deployed, not to replace nurses, but to allow patients to access various professional caregivers in addition to – and in the presence of – their visiting nurse.
