Overcoming Roadblocks to Telemedicine Adoption
Recently Medscape, an online medical news resource, surveyed 1423 healthcare providers, including 847 physicians, and 1103 patients to assess their attitudes toward telemedicine and other emerging technologies in healthcare. The results show that while both providers and patients believe that technical advances can be used to improve patient health and increase access to care, they … Read More
Is Your State Red or Blue? (Telehealth wise, of course.)
There’s been a lot of talk lately about Red states and Blue states and maps - mostly of the electoral sort. We’ll leave it to the media and your friends on Facebook to comment on that map. But we’d like to introduce another one. We’ve created an up-to-date map that shows you instantly which states … Read More
Arkansas Takes a Step Toward Expanding Use of Telehealth
The state of Arkansas has received failing marks from the American Telemedicine Association for some of their rules regarding telehealth. The two most troublesome involve how patient relationships are established and the originating site requirements. Last week, the state legislature took an important step in improving its regulations regarding patient relationships, but failed to act … Read More
Telemedicine Reimbursement – There’s an App for That!
As you are probably painfully aware, medical billing is complicated, confusing, and time consuming. When it comes to billing for video visits conducted using telemedicine, it becomes orders of magnitude more so. Sadly, this has kept some practices from adopting telemedicine at all. Why is it so hard? Although telemedicine has been around in one … Read More
Telemedicine Reimbursement by Public Payers
We’re not going to lie. At this time there is really nothing simple about providers getting reimbursed for clinical visits conducted via telemedicine. (That’s why we had to invent sophisticated software to help make sure providers get paid.) The private payer landscape is tricky mostly due to inconsistant and changing state laws and payer policies. … Read More
Telemedicine Reimbursement by Private Payers
We see a lot of movement toward a more standard and accepting approach to telemedicine reimbursement. But right now there is a patchwork of policies that makes figuring out if you can get paid for video visits quite a challenge. If you choose the right telemedicine software, you don’t have to become a reimbursement expert, … Read More
Telemedicine Reimbursement – Guaranteed
We’re going to go out on a limb and guess that most providers don’t enter the field of medicine because they think dealing with the complex web of laws and payer policies that stand between the provider and getting paid for their work is a big ball of fun. We suspect that you, along with … Read More
The Chiron Rules Engine: Your Reimbursement Sentinel
There are a lot of great reasons for your practice to offer telemedicine. It is an extremely convenient, cost effective, and time saving option for patients. But let’s be honest, most practices implement telemedicine to increase revenue. (A perfectly valid motivation for any business, by the way.) Practices use video visits to see more patients … Read More
Billing, Reimbursement and Claims: How to Drive more Revenue
We’ve written before about how providers can grow their top line with a thoughtful marketing plan, but gaining new patients and expanding the services you provide to existing ones is only part of the revenue equation. It is also essential to make sure that you are capitalizing on each encounter with sound billing, reimbursement and … Read More
Major Insurer Gets Behind Video Visits
In an important step forward for telemedicine, the country’s largest health insurer, UnitedHealthcare recently announced that they are putting remote video visits via telemedicine technology on par with an in-person visit to the doctor’s office. Although they have partnered with just three telemedicine companies to provide the visits, they have effectively put their stamp of … Read More
