Telehealth
Payers and self-insured employers, who cover more than 100 million Americans, have been rapidly developing so-called 鈥渧irtual-first鈥 health plans. Self-insured employers can鈥檛 sustain the average 6% annual health plan cost increase they have been seeing and need to find ways to better engage鈥
AHA President and CEO Rick Pollack talks with Epstein Becker Green podcast host Edward Kennedy Jr. about how hospitals are working with the Administration and Congress to shape policy around critical issues such as surprise billing, coverage expansion, value-based care and telehealth.
The recent acquisition of RubiconMD by Oak Street Health will enable the value-based primary care disruptor to add virtual specialty care to its service offerings.
Walmart recently partnered with the consumer-facing health care platform Transcarent to provide low-cost prescription drugs, telehealth, optical and other services to self-insured employers.
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality seeks input through Nov. 12 on scientific evidence to inform a systematic review of telehealth use during COVID-19.
The Department of Health and Human Services released a Spanish version of its QuestionBuilder app, a mobile app developed by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality to help patients prepare for in-person and telehealth appointments.
The Federal Communications Commission鈥檚 Wireline Competition Bureau committed $41 million in funding to 72 health care providers under Round 2 of its COVID-19 Telehealth Program.
In the marathon that the COVID-19 pandemic has become, hospitals and health systems set a brisk early pace in transforming digitally. Telehealth services scaled rapidly as organizations adopted clinically integrated digital strategies and shifted how and where they deliver services. That momentum,鈥
Remote patient monitoring (RPM) has been a key component of value-based strategies like hospital-at-home and in certain specialties like palliative care, as well as managing patients with chronic diseases. Only recently have large-scale studies surfaced that measure the impact of RPM programs鈥
Commenting today on the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services鈥 physician fee schedule rule for calendar year 2022, the AHA expressed appreciation for the agency鈥檚 proposals that support care delivery and patient outcomes by extending the timeline for certain programs and continuing others鈥