by Associated Press | Jul 14, 2020 | Covid-19 / Corona Virus, Health News
LOS ANGELES (AP) — For two weeks, Rachel Weeks has stayed home, going without a paycheck while waiting and waiting for the results of a COVID-19 test from a pharmacy near Philadelphia. (Months) “I’m just so disappointed. I just don’t know how — with...
by mmiliard | Jul 9, 2020 | Covid-19 / Corona Virus, Telehealth
Henry J. Austin Health Center, a federally qualified health center in Trenton, New Jersey, was having problems with payment options. (pandemic) THE PROBLEM Regulations had been passed in New Jersey requiring reimbursement for telemedicine services. But the major payer...
by KatJercich | Jul 8, 2020 | Covid-19 / Corona Virus, Health News, Telehealth
When the United States reported its first COVID-19 case in January 2020, the Medical University of South Carolina activated its telehealth response – months before swathes of other health systems rapidly pivoted to virtual care. By April, that response included...
by Eric Wicklund | Jul 3, 2020 | Covid-19 / Corona Virus, Telehealth
Source: ThinkStock June 26, 2020 – Federal regulators are moving to permanently expand telehealth coverage for home health care services. (moves) In a June 25 notice, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services unveiled a proposed rule to make permanent...
by KatJercich | Jun 30, 2020 | Covid-19 / Corona Virus, Health News
Epidemiologists have warned that a second wave of COVID-19 is on its way. In fact, in some countries, it’s already here. When coronavirus cases begin to grow in early spring, health systems were forced to pivot quickly – sometimes within a matter of days – to...
by Dr. Fuki Hisama | Jun 25, 2020 | Covid-19 / Corona Virus, Telehealth
Despite precision medicine being touted as the future of healthcare, many Americans are still not familiar with it. (COVID-19) This is unfortunate as precision medicine can help identify which therapies will be most effective for individual patients based on their...
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