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AHA Statement before Senate Finance Committee on Rural Health Care in America: Challenges and Opportunities
AHA statement before the Senate Finance Committee on "Rural Health Care in America: Challenges and Opportunities."
A workforce plan for the next chapter in health care
One great way to improve capacity and prepare for the future workforce needs—as well as respond to consumers’ desires—is to fully embrace telehealth.
AHA, NQF release new resource on telebehavioral health
The AHA and the National Quality Forum today released a guide to help hospitals and health systems working to deliver innovative, high-quality telebehavioral health services.
Telehealth at the Center of New Humana Primary Care Plan
While many health plans offer virtual care services, these services typically have suffered from low utilization. By making virtual care the centerpiece of this plan design, Humana hopes to drive up usage while driving down costs.
Chairman’s File: Realizing the promise of telehealth
More than three-quarters of U.S. hospitals offer patients the ability to connect with caregivers at a distance, ensuring that care is delivered at the right time.
Best Buy Expands Focus to Health Care
It may not be ready to take on the Amazons and Walmarts of the world in pushing into the health care market, but big box technology retailer Best Buy has identified health care as a growth priority. The latest evidence: Best Buy is the first U.S. retailer to sell exclusively a telehealth device kit that enables physicians to remotely examine patients for things like ear infections, coughs and upper respiratory issues, sore throat and sinus pain.
How You’re Transforming: Acadia Hospital
Acadia Hospital, Bangor, Maine, a nonprofit acute care psychiatric hospital employing more than 30 psychiatrists and psychiatric nurses, has helped rural hospitals in the state and as far away as Indiana bridge this critical gap in ED services with videoconferencing technology.
CMS finalizes changes to MA, prescription drug programs for 2020
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Friday finalized changes to the Medicare Advantage and prescription drug programs for contract year 2020.
Telehealth Use Surges in Rapidly Changing Market
Even though it accounts for only 2.6 percent of overall medical claims, Telehealth usage surged 53 percent between 2016 and 2017 and continues to grow rapidly. This rate of telehealth growth surpassed that of urgent care centers, retail clinics, ambulatory surgery centers and emergency departments. Culling its database of 28 billion commercial claims, Fair Health conducted research showing that national utilization of alternative places of service continued to grow from 2016 to 2017, but at different rates. Learn more about the key findings in Fair Health’s white paper.
Some Health Care Startups Require Performance-Based Contracts
Even as many hospitals and health care systems continue to evaluate whether to participate in risk-based reimbursement models, some health care startups are betting their futures on it.