Telehealth
The American Medical Association recently released a coding guide to help providers process payments for telehealth services during the coronavirus pandemic.
In response to the coronavirus pandemic, NYU Langone Health expanded its telemedicine platform this week to include an additional 1,300 physicians and other care providers.
As health systems and hospitals become overwhelmed with COVID-19 patients, the transition to virtual care platforms makes sense.
The House on March 27 approved a $2 trillion COVID-19 relief package that the Senate passed on Wednesday, which will provide $185 million to support telehealth programs for rural critical access hospitals.
As COVID-19 continues to spread across the country, various states have begun to expand their availability of telehealth services to promote virtual care during the pandemic.
Telehealth is expanding across the country as people aim to stay out of the hospital unless they are experiencing severe coronavirus symptoms.
CMS recently highlighted the actions it has taken to promote the availability and usage of telehealth services through private health insurance coverage during the coronavirus pandemic.
Despite mass efforts of clinicians and other healthcare professionals in Massachusetts treating COVID-19 patients, the state now faces a potentially critical overwhelming of its hospital and ambulatory structure by sometime in April, according to healthcare leaders in the state.
Premera Blue Cross will waive cost shares for all telehealth services deemed medically necessary for COVID-19 treatment, effective March 24, the health insurer announced.
New Brunswick, N.J.-based Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital has installed “video robots” in its pop-up tents that transmit a video to a physician inside the emergency room, according to NJ Spotlight.