Telehealth
Samsung is looking to connect clinicians and patients through TVs with the Samsung Telemedicine app, CNET reported Jan. 3.
UNC Health, based in Chapel Hill, is a not-for-profit integrated health care system owned by the state of North Carolina.
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Resilience Lab, a New York City-based startup that matches clients with remote therapists, could become the first telehealth company to unionize after employees petitioned the National Labor Relations Board to join DC 37, the Gothamist reported Dec. 29.
Bart Stupak, a former U.S. representative serving Northern Michigan, is lobbying to let online telehealth startups continue to prescribe controlled substances, Bloomberg reported Dec. 27.
BioTelemetry, now a Royal Phillips company, agreed to pay $44.875 million to settle allegations that the company improperly billed Medicare by outsourcing heart monitoring services to India between 2013 and 2022.
The COVID-19 pandemic revolutionized telehealth, and many patients continue to seek out COVID-19 care from the comfort of their own homes.
Becker's has reported on three hospitals or health systems implementing telehealth programs since Dec. 7:
Only 15 percent of patients who were eligible for Medicare fee-for-service telehealth used the service in the second quarter of 2022, according to a Dec. 15 telehealth utilization report from CMS.
Mental health disorders are not isolated — they have far-reaching effects that drive up costs for both patients and providers.
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Two House members said that congress is trying to expand Medicare's virtual flexibilities beyond the public health emergency, NextGov reported Dec. 14.