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Using Healthcare VR Technology to Improve Pain Management

November 6, 2023 - Amid the ongoing digital transformation of healthcare, stakeholders are exploring the potential utility of various advanced technologies in patient care. These advanced technologies include artificial intelligence, blockchain, and virtual reality. Virtual reality (VR) is “a simulated 3D environment that enables users to explore and interact with a virtual surrounding in a way...


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Understanding the RPM Market: Where It’s At & Where It’s Going

by Anuja Vaidya

The remote patient monitoring (RPM) market has evolved rapidly since 2020, spurred by in-person restrictions brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic. In the last few years, many companies have attempted to stake their claim in the RPM...

Exploring RPM Benefits & Barriers, From Population Health to Payment

by Anuja Vaidya

With healthcare moving increasingly outside the four walls of the hospital, remote patient monitoring (RPM) tools are becoming indispensable. How hospitals employ these tools are diverse, from chronic disease management to providing...

CMS: Hospitals Can Continue to Bill for Remote Outpatient Therapies

by Anuja Vaidya

In a Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) document, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) stated that hospitals could continue to bill for various outpatient therapies delivered via remote...

How This Early Adopter Leverages, Bills for Remote Therapeutic Monitoring

by Anuja Vaidya

Amid the staggering rise of virtual care during the COVID-19 pandemic, federal agencies were tasked with classifying these new care modalities to ensure adequate reimbursement. In its 2022 Physician Fee Schedule, the Centers for Medicare...

Telehealth Advocacy Groups Raise RPM Coverage Decision Concerns

by Anuja Vaidya

The American Telemedicine Association and Alliance for Connected Care have expressed concerns regarding a Contractor Advisory Committee (CAC) Meeting on remote physiologic monitoring (RPM) and remote...

RPM 101: What Is Remote Patient Monitoring, Its Benefits, and Uses?

by Anuja Vaidya

Remote patient monitoring (RPM) though by no means a new care modality is evolving rapidly, spurred by the constraints of the COVID-19 pandemic and the corresponding regulatory push to expand access to care. In its simplest form, RPM...

New Toolkit Aims to Help Telehealth Programs Negotiate Payer Reimbursement

by Eric Wicklund

An organization focused on assisting healthcare providers with virtual care platforms has released a resource for negotiating third party payer reimbursement. The Payer-V1C Contracting Toolkit is...

Telehealth Advocates Try to Bring Congress’ Attention Back to Long-Term Policy

by Eric Wicklund

Support is growing for a bill before both chambers of Congress that would make permanent some very specific emergency measures that were designed to boost telehealth access and coverage in rural areas...

CMS Faces a Call to Improve Telehealth Coverage for Rural Health Providers

by Eric Wicklund

Several organizations are making an extra effort to lobby for expanded telehealth coverage for rural healthcare providers beyond the pandemic. While telehealth advocates have been lobbying the Centers...

Telehealth Groups Pressure CMS to Expand Coverage in 2022 Physician Fee Schedule

by Eric Wicklund

Telehealth advocates are asking the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to amend the proposed 2022 Physician Fee Schedule to permanently extend emergency measures on telehealth access and...

CMS Plans to Scrap Innovative mHealth Technology Program

by Eric Wicklund

Federal officials are ditching a plan to speed up Medicare coverage for innovative mHealth technology, saying the Trump-era plan would have put patients at risk. The Centers for Medicare &...

American Academy of Pediatrics Targets Parity in Telehealth Policy Statement

by Eric Wicklund

The American Academy of Pediatrics has issued a policy statement on telehealth that calls for, among other things, payment parity and more efforts to address the social determinants of health....

Congress Again Eyes a Thorough Study of Telehealth During the Pandemic

by Eric Wicklund

Lawmakers are once again eyeing a thorough evaluation of telehealth services offered during the coronavirus pandemic through Medicare and Medicaid. That’s the gist of the Evaluating Disparities...

New Illinois Law Gives Patients the Right to Choose - or Reject -Telehealth

by Eric Wicklund

Illinois Governor JB Pritzker has signed one of the country’s most progressive telehealth bills, with provisions that establish payment parity for telemental health services and give patients the...

Lawmakers Seek to Mandate Payer Coverage for Telehealth Services

by Eric Wicklund

Two Congressmen have re-introduced a bill that would prompt payers to cover any telehealth service that’s also offered in-person. The bill, unveiled last week by US Reps. Dean Phillips (D-MN)...

As State Emergencies End, Providers Look for New Telehealth Limits

by Eric Wicklund

As the pandemic eases and state public health emergencies expire, healthcare providers are scrambling to figure out what they can and can’t do with telehealth any more. Florida Governor Ron...

Senators Eye Medicare Coverage for Telehealth in Diabetes Prevention Programs

by Eric Wicklund

A group of Senators has re-introduced a bill that would establish Medicare coverage for care providers who use telehealth in diabetes prevention programs. The Promoting Responsible and Effective...

Is the Time Right for Skilled Nursing Facilities to Embrace Telehealth?

by Eric Wicklund

Two large skilled nursing facilities will soon be testing the post-COVID-19 theory that telehealth is here to stay. Southview Acres Health Care Center in St. Paul, MN, and Affinity Healthcare Center...

Illinois Moves to Expand Telehealth Coverage, With Limited Payment Parity

by Eric Wicklund

Illinois lawmakers have passed legislation that expands telehealth access and coverage in the state, including establishing payment parity for behavioral health and substance abuse services and...

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