The basic idea was that when the SNFs would face a volume of patients without having enough primary care providers on site, they would immediately book an appointment with these on-call doctors. Each provider would have VPN access to the EMR of the skilled nursing facility hence would have the ability to look at patient records as well as update with diagnosis and treatment/care plans.Continue readingHow a skilled nursing facility uses telehealth
Category: Telemedicine
Telemedicine technology helps you provide better patient care. Telemedicine also helps you lower no-shows, retain patients. Finally, telemedicine service offering also helps to generate additional reimbursement dollars.
Here are a few short guides on telemedicine. We also include the various options you have for each modality, plus the pros/cons of each.
Hopefully these guides will help you decide whether your practice should invest in telehealth or not. Since providers must now live both in a fee-for-service and fee-for-value world, making this decision sooner than later is crucial.
We have taken advantage of the latest technical advancements for teleretinal screenings. Feel free to understand how to leverage teleretinal screenings for your practice.
We have also built systems to help televisits for skilled nursing facilities.
For an NYC ophthalmology group, we manage televisits. Learn how to generate significant revenues and patient satisfaction that way.
Finally, we have also worked with ergonomics practice televisits.
This primer has inputs from our direct experience with various specialties.
You will also find COVID-19 updates on telemedicine. CMS has relaxed some rules and made telemedicine, generally, a more viable option.
Feel free to contact us if you need any help.
An ophthalmology group in NYC that deals with a large diabetic population wanted to offer teleretinal screening services to their referring partners. This not only assisted in medical marketing for them but at the same time extended patient compliance in addition to assisting the primary care providers to meet their yearly CDC screening goals.Continue readingHow an ophthalmology group uses telehealth
Here’s how we helped an Ergonomist and Occupational Therapist working in the field of injury prevention for hi-tech, insurance and healthcare enterprises.Continue readingHow an occupational therapy practice uses telehealth
There are some major differences between a televisit appointment and an appointment in office. Here are some tips on how to schedule telemedicine appointments and how to collect copays from patients (if any).Continue readingHow to schedule and get paid for telemedicine
The beautiful thing about telemedicine is that it doesn’t have any boundaries around office locations (unlike the services you offer at your offices, telehealth can be delivered to anyone residing far away from your locations as well).Continue readingHow to market telehealth services
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Billing for telemedicine services
It’s important to understand the documentation requirements for telehealth, evisit, telephone only E/M etc billing to avoid denials in the future. Make sure you understand documentation requirements well and instruct your providers accordingly.Continue readingBilling for telemedicine services
The technologies you need would depend on the telehealth services you plan to launch and the type of care you intend to provide. Due to COVID 19,CARES has relaxed the rules for telemedicine. As of now, you can use publicly available audio/video and store/forward technologies to tend to these unusual circumstances. Noted exceptions are public facing audio/video platforms like Facebook live, Twitch etc. Continue readingTelemedicine Technology needed for offering telehealth
Depending on your organization’s maturity and preparedness in addition to availability of providers, you can offer some or all of the following telehealth services. You need to consider:
1. Services you are going to offer via telehealth
2. Telehealth technology platform of choice
3. Reimbursement for services rendered
4. Clinical workflow (re)configurationsContinue readingHow to deploy a telehealth strategy for your practice
Even during COVID, we noticed that many practices are not offering telemedicine services. Our position has remained that it is unacceptable to not offer telemedicine services to your patients. Before COVID, there were confusions around reimbursements and hence most patient access strategies did not include telemedicine services. However, with CMS opening up the floodgates around telemedicine during COVID, there’s simply no reason not to see patients through telemedicine.Continue readingShould you offer telemedicine services
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Pros and cons of telemedicine
While this is not an exhaustive list for prons and cons of telemedicine, it is good to be aware of some of these before you get started. If you truly think through these, they can help you decide if telemedicine is right for your practice or not.Continue readingPros and cons of telemedicine