Teladoc Health on Wednesday completed its acquisition of InTouch Health, a telemedicine company that serves the provider market. Teladoc, a telemedicine giant that works with hospitals, insurers and employers, as well as direct to consumer, purchased InTouch Health for roughly $150 million in cash and 4.6 million shares of common stock. Teladoc officials valued the […]
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CMS wants to make permanent changes to telehealth flexibilities for home health providers, the agency said Thursday. The Trump administration loosened telehealth restrictions for home health providers during the COVID-19 pandemic but now wants them to go beyond the public health emergency. According to the proposed rule, CMS is looking to bump pay for home
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With a push from COVID-19, “hospital-at-home” programs and other remote technologies – from online visits with doctors to virtual physical therapy to home oxygen monitoring – have been rapidly rolled out and, often, embraced. As remote visits quickly ramped up, Medicare and many private insurers, which previously had limited telehealth coverage, temporarily relaxed payment rules,
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The COVID-19 pandemic will keep driving telehealth adoption, but use will likely ebb from its current unprecedented levels, experts and officials said this past week during America’s Health Insurance Plans’ virtual annual conference. Before the COVID-19 crisis, telehealth was used mainly for behavioral and urgent care, with a focus in rural and underserved areas. But
As telehealth adoption takes off in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, quality analysts and health systems claim much is still unknown about the quality of these virtual visits. Telehealth is often touted for its ability to improve access to care and lower healthcare spending, but those assertions haven’t been widely or rigorously tested, according to
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