Telehealth
Spectrum Health – Grand Rapids, MI
Telehealth Program Reduces Costs and Decreases Patient Transfers
Spectrum Health’s telehealth program saves patients time and money, and results in avoided patient transfers, avoided ED and urgent care center visits, and savings to payers.
Download the full case…
Spectrum Health – Grand Rapids, MI
Telehealth Program Reduces Costs and Decreases Patient Transfers
Spectrum Health’s telehealth program saves patients time and money, and results in avoided patient transfers, avoided ED and urgent care center visits, and savings to payers.
Download the full case…
Grand Rapids, Mich.-based Spectrum Health makes remote consultations available via mobile carts in 34 medical specialties, and Columbus (Neb.) Community Hospital employs interdisciplinary teams to strengthen communications with providers inside and outside of the hospital. Read these AHA Value…
AHA staff participated this afternoon in a Rural Health Summit convened by Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar and Health Resources and Services Administration Administrator George Sigounas to receive stakeholder input on addressing rural health challenges such as the opioid epidemic,…
The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation today announced a new payment model for Medicare Part D and Medicare Advantage drug plans beginning January 2020, which will test new incentives for plans, patients and providers to choose drugs with lower list prices. Plans participating in the…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services today issued a rule finalizing changes to the Medicare Shared Savings Program, including to the structure of payments made to accountable care organizations and other aspects of participation in the MSSP.
Commenting today on proposed policy changes for Medicare Advantage plan years 2020 and 2021, AHA expressed strong support for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ flexible approach to expanding MA telehealth benefits, as authorized by the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2018.
AHA comments on the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) proposed rule that would set forth policy changes for the 2020 and 2021 Medicare Advantage (MA) plan years.
Congress yesterday passed a farm bill conference report that authorizes assistance for rural hospitals to refinance a debt obligation as an eligible loan or loan guarantee if the assistance would help preserve access to health services in a rural community and meaningfully improve the financial…
About 15 percent of physicians in 2016 worked in practices that used telemedicine to interact with patients, while 11 percent worked in practices that used it to interact with health care professionals.