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Telehealth summit debrief: staffing shortages, wider acceptance but expansion barriers

Healthcare It News

The lack of tenured nurses creates a risk to quality outcomes. The numbers of nurses and doctors coming out of school are on the decline, and many want to work in larger cities where they can maximize the number of patients or disease states they can see. Then, there are other companies that are doing rehabilitation programs.

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Medicare Coverage and Nursing Homes: A Comprehensive Guide

Etactics

The average private room in a nursing home is $10,104 per month in the United States. Really the price of nursing home care depends on many different factors. In some cases, nursing home facilities have all-inclusive rates. This can look like many different things, one of which is the assistance found in nursing homes.

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COVID-19 Pandemic Boosted RPM Adoption in Cardiac Rehab

HIT Consultant

– Vivalink has announced a new study of cardiac rehabilitation clinicians that reveals the current landscape of remote patient monitoring technology (RPM) in their field, with some pretty incredible results, including: – 65% of cardiac rehab clinicians started using RPM within the last 1-2 years. Did it work well for them?

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CMS Care Compare To Offer More New Information On Home Health-Physician Relationships

Home Health Care

Care Compare – the all-in-one search tool for consumers seeking home health, hospice and other Medicare-reimbursed health care services – will now include new information on providers’ relationships with doctors and clinicians. Specifically, the update will be found under the “Doctors and Clinicians” section on Care Compare.

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Albert Einstein Medical Center serves up telehealth from 4 vendors with FCC grant

Healthcare It News

"Many of our patients struggle with transportation issues, whether it is available or accessible public transportation or physical disabilities that make a trip to the doctor's office difficult," Stone said. This has leveled off, with approximately 10% to 25% of all visits remaining virtual, depending on the specialty.

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How to Classify Treatment Encounters in ICD-10-CM?

p3care

However, physicians, coders, health information managers, nurses, and other staff have benefited from ICD-9-CM. The attending doctor will prepare the initial report and assign the respective code for the leg burn. Now, if the patient goes to another doctor during their active treatment, the physician can code A for the patient’s visit.

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How to Get Medicare to Cover Transitional Care Management Services

Sequence Health

One of these hoops is getting Medicare coverage for transitional care services like physical therapy following surgery, skilled nursing after hospitalization, and long-term rehabilitation programs. Today, we will take a look at how to get Medicare coverage for transitional care management services for your patients.