Telehealth

Some patients remain wary of going into the clinic, with lack of transportation and other issues being a nagging barrier.

As part of the new Patient Experience Digital Series, two clinicians explain how a virtual care model is helping more compassionately treat patients in their home communities while improving the provider experience.

Non-COVID-19 utilization is back to 95% of baseline, and, when coupled with the cost of COVID-19 care, overall utilization is above baseline.

FAIR Health attributes the increase in telehealth utilization to the pandemic, which forced nonemergency procedures to come to a halt in March.

Black women, regardless of education or socioeconomic status, are four times more likely to die from preventable pregnancy-related complications.

Providers have looked to telehealth to continue seeing patients and revenue cycle technologies to improve efficiencies.

Telehealth adoption under COVID-19 has provided a blueprint for wider implementation across ERs and other healthcare venues.

CMS will now pay for certain neurostimulator analysis and programming services and cardiac and pulmonary rehabilitation services. 

New technologies also benefit providers as they look to retain service line revenues by offering remote care.

Patient satisfaction was high even before the pandemic, and anesthesiologists say 50% of visits could be virtual.