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Leveraging the Affordable Care Act and Information …

(5 days ago) WEBTechnologies such as telehealth and health information exchanges (HIEs) are enabling the mobilization of health information across systems and geographies and are building opportunities to broaden the reach of specialist practitioners as well as allowing …

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK241400/

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Summary of the Final Rule - HHS.gov

(8 days ago) WEBSection 1557 of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, age, or disability in any health program or activity that receives Federal financial assistance, State-based health insurance Exchanges, and HHS health programs and activities, and is one of the government’s most powerful

https://www.hhs.gov/civil-rights/for-individuals/section-1557/1557-fact-sheet/index.html

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FACT SHEET: The President’s Budget Protects and …

(2 days ago) WEBIn addition, the Budget, through funds appropriated by the Fiscal Responsibility Act, includes $21.5 billion in the TEF for medical care, bringing the medical care total to $134.0 billion in 2025

https://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/briefing-room/2024/03/11/fact-sheet-the-presidents-budget-protects-and-increases-access-to-quality-affordable-healthcare/

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HHS Fact Sheet: Telehealth Flexibilities and Resources and …

(9 days ago) WEBAs is currently the case during the COVID-19 PHE, coverage for telehealth and other remote care services will vary by private insurance plan after the end of the COVID-19 PHE. When it covers telehealth and other remote care services, private insurers may impose cost-sharing, prior authorization, or other forms of medical management on …

https://www.hhs.gov/about/news/2023/05/10/hhs-fact-sheet-telehealth-flexibilities-resources-covid-19-public-health-emergency.html

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Fact Sheet: Federal Support Needed to Expand and …

(7 days ago) WEBThe Issue. The COVID-19 emergency highlights the importance of a strong digital health and data infrastructure. Foundational to this infrastructure is adequate, affordable broadband connectivity, which is essential to enabling telehealth and ensuring patients can take full advantage of the modern technology that supports 21st century …

https://www.aha.org/fact-sheets/2021-05-26-fact-sheet-federal-support-needed-expand-and-modernize-health-care-digital

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States’ Actions to Expand Telemedicine Access During …

(8 days ago) WEBGoal: To better understand the changing regulatory approach to telemedicine in response to COVID-19. Methods: A review of state actions to expand individual and group health insurance coverage …

https://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/issue-briefs/2021/jun/states-actions-expand-telemedicine-access-covid-19

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Telehealth policy changes after the COVID-19 public …

(2 days ago) WEBTemporary Medicare changes through December 31, 2024. FQHCs and RHCs can serve as a distant site provider for non-behavioral/mental telehealth services. Medicare patients can receive telehealth services in their home. There are no geographic restrictions for originating site for non-behavioral/mental telehealth services.

https://telehealth.hhs.gov/providers/telehealth-policy/policy-changes-after-the-covid-19-public-health-emergency

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Home Is Where the Health Is: Obamacare Positions …

(4 days ago) WEBThe Affordable Care Act’s Telehealth Telehealth has matured beyond the ability to simply gather and transmit patient information over the Internet and wireless networks. Newer technologies

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/affordable-care-act-technology/

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Removing regulatory barriers to telehealth before and …

(4 days ago) WEBTelehealth has the potential to revolutionize health care. Introduction. A combination of escalating costs, an aging population, and rising chronic health-care conditions that account for 75% of

https://www.brookings.edu/articles/removing-regulatory-barriers-to-telehealth-before-and-after-covid-19/

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Risk Adjustment Telehealth and Telephone Services During …

(Just Now) WEBin response to the increased need to expand the use of telehealth and virtual care during the COVID-19 PHE for the 2020 through 2022 benefit years to the 2023 benefit year for purposes of the HHS-operated risk adjustment program under section 1343 of the Affordable Care Act. These policies apply to the entire 2023 benefit year due to the

https://www.cms.gov/files/document/cciio-ra-telehealth-faq04112023.pdf

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Opportunities and Barriers for Telemedicine in the U.S. During the

(9 days ago) WEBAffordable Care Act; Women's Health Policy Search Graphics & Interactives Polls First Choice Health will waive cost-sharing for telehealth if care is delivered via the 98point6 platform,

https://www.kff.org/womens-health-policy/issue-brief/opportunities-and-barriers-for-telemedicine-in-the-u-s-during-the-covid-19-emergency-and-beyond/

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The Affordable Care Act and Digital Health Applications

(1 days ago) WEBSmartphone applications, or apps, that connect a provider with a patient, known as "connective health apps," fall under this umbrella of telehealth and can function in all three of the categories. As the Affordable Care Act legislates to improve quality, lower costs, and expand coverage, connective health apps are an important aspect of the Act

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29944817/

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Will the Affordable Care Act Help Telehealth Flourish? - GovTech

(9 days ago) WEBAccording to a 2006 report from the American Academy of Family Physicians, the U.S. will have a shortage of at least 39,000 family physicians by 2020 — a figure compiled before the passage of

https://www.govtech.com/health/will-the-affordable-care-act-help-telehealth-flourish.html

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Telehealth: Applications From a Legal and Regulatory Perspective

(3 days ago) WEBThe expansion of state Medicaid programs by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) also has increased the need for primary care providers, most notably in rural and underserved areas. (D-Florida) requested a literature review of the impact of telehealth on health care to date. In June 2016, the Agency for Healthcare Research

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5010268/

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Telehealth Parity Laws Health Affairs

(Just Now) WEBWith the implementation of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), the federal government announced the move toward encouraging and including telehealth services in health care coverage.

https://www.healthaffairs.org/do/10.1377/hpb20160815.244795/

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CARES Act: AMA COVID-19 pandemic telehealth fact sheet

(8 days ago) WEBThis is especially important for patients on Medicare because seniors who get the coronavirus are at high risk of a severe impact. On March 30, CMS announced a number of new policies to help physicians and hospitals during the COVID-19 pandemic, including coverage for audio-only telephone visits. The AMA released a statement …

https://www.ama-assn.org/delivering-care/public-health/cares-act-ama-covid-19-pandemic-telehealth-fact-sheet

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Guidance on Nondiscrimination in Telehealth - ADA.gov

(Just Now) WEBTitle VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 42 U.S.C. § 2000d; see also Section 1557 of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, 42 U.S.C. § 18116(a) (prohibiting discrimination on the basis of race, color, and national origin, among other bases). Back to text. See Lau v. Nichols, 414 U.S. 563 (1974) (holding that Title VI requires that

https://www.ada.gov/resources/telehealth-guidance/

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Medicare and Telehealth: Coverage and Use During the COVID-19 …

(8 days ago) WEBMedicare beneficiaries who report having a telehealth visit between the summer and fall of 2020 account for 1 out of 4 Medicare beneficiaries overall (27%, or 14.9 million beneficiaries), based on

https://www.kff.org/medicare/issue-brief/medicare-and-telehealth-coverage-and-use-during-the-covid-19-pandemic-and-options-for-the-future/

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Stand Alone Telehealth Under ACA After End of Covid Emergency

(4 days ago) WEBThe Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2022 (CAA 2022) renewed the relief under the CARES Act for months beginning after March 31, 2022, and before January 1, 2023—but it created a three-month gap

https://www.natlawreview.com/article/telehealth-and-end-covid-19-emergency

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Telemedicine, Telehealth, and Mobile Health Applications …

(6 days ago) WEBThe impending rollout of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) is catalyzing a surge of interest in telemedicine, telehealth, and mobile health. The shifts of the healthcare industry into new directions to accommodate the goals of the Affordable Care Act initiative should expand the practice and provision of healthcare at a distance. Telemedicine

https://www.amjmed.com/article/S0002-9343(13)00919-4/pdf

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FAQs on Medicare Coverage of Telehealth KFF

(1 days ago) WEBKFF Headquarters: 185 Berry St., Suite 2000, San Francisco, CA 94107 Phone 650-854-9400 Washington Offices and Barbara Jordan Conference Center: 1330 G Street, NW, Washington, DC 20005 Phone

https://www.kff.org/medicare/issue-brief/faqs-on-medicare-coverage-of-telehealth/

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Telemedicine, telehealth, and mobile health applications that work

(1 days ago) WEBThere has been a spike in interest and use of telehealth, catalyzed recently by the anticipated implementation of the Affordable Care Act, which rewards efficiency in healthcare delivery. Advances in telehealth services are in many areas, including gap service coverage (eg, night-time radiology cove …

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24384059/

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Second House panel advances two-year telehealth extension

(9 days ago) WEBSusan Walsh/AP. W ASHINGTON — A House subcommittee on Thursday advanced legislation that would extend some pandemic-era telehealth policies in Medicare for two years, bringing the panel’s

https://www.statnews.com/2024/05/16/telehealth-extension-house-panel/

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About the ACA HHS.gov

(5 days ago) WEBAbout the Affordable Care Act. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, referred to as the Affordable Care Act or “ACA” for short, is the comprehensive health care reform law enacted in March 2010. The law has 3 primary goals: Make affordable health insurance available to more people. The law provides consumers with subsidies

https://www.hhs.gov/healthcare/about-the-aca/index.html

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Trends and Disparities in Pandemic Telehealth Use among People …

(6 days ago) WEBThis Issue Brief explores telehealth use for people and Medicare beneficiaries with disabilities and examines questions on the use of audio-only telehealth during the second and third years of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. The study used data from the Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey (MCBS) COVID-19 2021 …

https://www.aspe.hhs.gov/reports/pandemic-telehealth-use-people-disabilities

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Despite state bans, abortions nationwide are up, driven by …

(7 days ago) WEBResearch has shown that telehealth abortions are as safe and effective as in-clinic care. "It's affordable, it's convenient, and it feels more private," says Jillian Barovick, a midwife in Brooklyn and one of the co-founders of Juniper Midwifery, which offers medication abortion via telehealth to patients in six states where abortion is legal

https://health.wusf.usf.edu/npr-health/2024-05-14/despite-state-bans-abortions-nationwide-are-up-driven-by-telehealth

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Schweikert, Thompson Celebrate Committee Passage of …

(5 days ago) WEBWASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, U.S. Representatives David Schweikert (AZ-01) and Mike Thompson (CA-04) applauded the House Ways and Means Committee for unanimously passing the Preserving Telehealth, Hospital, and Ambulance Access Act, bipartisan legislation they introduced which would extend Medicare patients’ access to …

https://schweikert.house.gov/2024/05/08/schweikert-thompson-celebrate-committee-passage-of-legislation-extending-telehealth-services-for-medicare-patients/

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HHS codifies non-discrimination rules, focuses on LGBTQ

(6 days ago) WEBThe Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has finalized two rules strengthening section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), banning all gender- and sex-based discrimination in healthcare organizations or in any HHS grant program. The first final rule, unveiled on April 26, protects members of the LGBTQ+ community, the agency said

https://www.techtarget.com/patientengagement/news/366584254/HHS-codifies-non-discrimination-rules-focuses-on-LGBTQ-protections

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H.R. 8261, Preserving Telehealth, Hospital, and Ambulance …

(9 days ago) WEBH.R. 8261, Preserving Telehealth, Hospital, and Ambulance Access Act Rep. Schweikert (R-AZ), Rep. Thompson (D-CA) Americans benefit from access to care at home. • During the COVID-19 public health emergency (PHE), access to telehealth services was expanded for Medicare paents. Congress has passed legislaon to extend paent

https://waysandmeans.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/HR-8261.pdf

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