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781. The Health and Social Impacts of the Maui Wildfires: Post-Disaster Care from a Sociocultural Lens - Resources
Date: Mar 2024

Highlights the impact of a wildfire event on existing health and social service disparities in Maui, Hawaii. Discusses housing, employment, finances, mental health, suicide risk, culture, social isolation, rurality, and service limitations. Notes opportunities and challenges for addressing these impacts using telehealth and outside assistance.

...telehealth and outside assistance. --- View more The Health and Social Impacts of the Maui Wildfires...

782. Virtual Care QUERI Program: Improve Access to Care for Rural Veterans - Resources
Date: 2021

Presents information on the VA's Virtual Care QUERI Program, which provides mental healthcare for rural veterans via telehealth services at home or through community-based outpatient clinics (CBOCs). Highlights program information, implementation strategies, and potential impacts.

...telehealth services at home or through community-based outpatient clinics (CBOCs). Highlights program information, implementation...

783. MedPAC Report to the Congress: Medicare and the Health Care Delivery System, June 2023 - Resources
Date: Jun 2023

Evaluates Medicare payment issues and provides recommendations to the U.S. Congress. Chapter 7 presents a report on the use, payment, and quality of telehealth services that Medicare pays for separately under the physician fee schedule (PFS). Also includes chapters on the cost of drugs covered under Medicare Part B, postsale rebates for prescription drugs in Medicare Part D, standardized benefits in Medicare Advantage plans, future directions for Medicare Advantage payment policy, disparities in outcomes for beneficiaries with different social risks, Medicare behavioral health services, the alignment of fee-for-service payment rates across ambulatory settings, and the evaluation of a post-acute care prospective payment system prototype.

...telehealth services that Medicare pays for separately under the physician fee schedule (PFS). Also includes...

784. North Carolina Community Health Center Association - COVID-19 Resources - Resources
Date: Apr 2021

Provides information and resources for health centers in North Carolina related to COVID-19, including clinical guidance, reimbursement and billing, telehealth, and human resources.

...telehealth, and human resources. --- View more North Carolina Community Health Center Association - COVID-19 Resources...

785. Behavioral Health Integration into Primary Care - Resources
Date: Mar 2018

Profile of a rural health system, Western Wisconsin Health (WWH), and its work to deliver behavioral health services. Provides an overview of how behavioral health providers and services were integrated with primary care, with a cultural change to focus on whole-person care. Includes information on Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement for the behavioral health services provided at WWH's Rural Health Clinic. Discusses how WWH behavioral health providers offer telehealth services to other rural areas of Wisconsin.

...telehealth services to other rural areas of Wisconsin. --- View more Behavioral Health Integration into Primary...

786. MACPAC Response to Senate Finance Committee Request for Information on Behavioral Health - Resources
Date: Nov 2021

Summarizes the Medicaid and CHIP Payment and Access Commission's (MACPAC) ongoing analysis of behavioral health in Medicaid and CHIP and offers policy recommendations. Discusses the behavioral health workforce; behavioral healthcare service delivery and access; mental health parity; telehealth; and improving access for children and youth. Includes rural references and considerations throughout.

...telehealth; and improving access for children and youth. Includes rural references and considerations throughout. --- View...

787. MedPAC Comment on CMS's Proposed Rule on the Physician Fee Schedule and Other Revisions to Part B for CY 2021 - Resources
Date: Oct 2020

Comment on an August 17, 2020 Federal Register proposed rule revising the physician fee schedule to improve payment systems for physicians and other Medicare Part B revisions. Includes a discussion of COVID-19-related telehealth expansion.

...telehealth expansion. --- View more MedPAC Comment on CMS's Proposed Rule on the Physician Fee Schedule...

788. Hearing on Enhancing Access to Care at Home in Rural and Underserved Communities - Resources
Date: Mar 2024

Recording of a March 12, 2024, House Committee on Ways and Means hearing regarding opportunities and challenges to enhance access to care in patients' homes and modernizing care in rural and underserved communities, with a focus on telehealth and health information technology. Features testimony from two rural patients and representatives from Intermountain Health; Cadence, a company with expertise in chronic care management through remote physiologic monitoring; and Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.

...telehealth and health information technology. Features testimony from two rural patients and representatives from Intermountain...

789. MedPAC Report to the Congress: Medicare Payment Policy, 2021 - Resources
Date: Mar 2021

Annual review of Medicare payment policies, with recommendations to Congress. Includes discussion on Medicare payment policies directly affecting rural providers and beneficiaries. Addresses payment adequacy for healthcare facilities and services, improving Medicare payment for post-acute care, Medicare Advantage, Medicare Part D, and the impact of healthcare provider consolidation. Contains information on the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on Medicare beneficiary healthcare access, mortality, and service use. Presents an option for Medicare's coverage of telehealth beyond the public health emergency.

...telehealth beyond the public health emergency. --- View more MedPAC Report to the Congress: Medicare Payment...

790. COVID-19 Health Care Flexibilities: Perspectives, Experiences, and Lessons Learned - Resources
Date: May 2021

Recording of a May 19, 2021, U.S. Senate Committee on Finance hearing on healthcare flexibilities implemented in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, with a focus on telehealth. Discusses lessons learned and considerations for the extension of these flexibilities beyond the pandemic.

...telehealth. Discusses lessons learned and considerations for the extension of these flexibilities beyond the pandemic...