CMS to provide accelerated and advance payments to Medicare Part A, Part B providers and suppliers in areas hit hard by Helene … Another study connects cognition to hearing loss, hearing aid use …...
Nursing homes get good news as telehealth extensions, CNA assistance advance
By
Kimberly Marselas
Sep 19, 2024
A key House committee this week advanced several bills designed to ease nursing home hiring and ensure expanded access to telehealth for another two years.
Clinical briefs for Thursday, Sept. 12
By
Kristen Fischer
Sep 11, 2024
Study: Telehealth, in-person palliative care for lung cancer both effective … Boosting protein levels could slow Alzheimer’s progression … More education linked to better cognitive function in people...
Also in the News for Thursday, Sept. 12
By
Kimberly Marselas
Sep 11, 2024
Judge tosses out verdict that cleared nursing home in resident’s 2020 COVID death … Maine doles out $30M in nursing home supplemental Medicaid payments … 300 stakeholder groups ask administration,...
Telehealth mindfulness programs ease chronic pain
By
Donna Shryer
Aug 19, 2024
A recent multisite randomized clinical trial appears to offer hope for people with chronic pain, including many older adults. The study, including 811 veterans, tested two mindfulness-based interventions...
Clinical briefs for Friday, August 9
By
Kristen Fischer
Aug 08, 2024
Exercise bursts better than steady workouts after stroke, study finds … Cleveland Clinic: Erythritol increases cardiovascular risk … Report: Caregivers hope telehealth continues post-pandemic
Bipartisan group pushes for more investment, permanent telehealth for Medicare providers
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Josh Henreckson
Jul 15, 2024
With a deadline to extend current telehealth reimbursement policies fast approaching, a bipartisan group of policy advocates is calling on legislators to make telehealth a permanent fixture of US healthcare...
DOJ hits telehealth firm for $4.6M in false claims settlement involving nursing homes
By
Josh Henreckson
Jun 14, 2024
A company that provides mental telehealth services to skilled nursing residents has agreed to pay the federal government $4.6 million to resolve false claims allegations.
Clinical briefs for Tuesday, June 4
By
Kristen Fischer
Jun 03, 2024
Study: Why doctors deprescribe central nervous system meds in older adults … GLP-1 drugs reduce risk of acute pancreatitis, trial finds … Hospital lowers blood infections, data shows … Report: Telehealth...
When there was greater use of telehealth during pandemic, there were more clinician encounters: study
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Kristen Fischer
May 13, 2024
High telehealth use among Medicare beneficiaries during the pandemic was linked to more clinician encounters and ambulatory care–sensitive hospitalizations, according to a study published Monday in JAMA...