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
You can consult for other providers to help their patients – either via phone calls or via reading images and videos sent over (store and forward) by the other provider (provider’s office). This is reserved for provider to provider. It involves telephone or internet based “assessment and management” service provided by a consulting physician to the patient’s treating/requesting physician or other qualified health care professional.Continue readingHow to increase patient access with inter-professional consultations
Online digital E/M is yet another way that you can extend care to patients beyond traditional office visits. As we have always mentioned, ensuring the highest patient access leads to higher patient satisfaction, thereby leading to higher patient reviews and ultimately, contributes to increased patient volumes.Continue readingHow to increase patient access with online digital E M
This service can be provided by a physician to a new or established patient, parent, or guardian not originating from a related E/M service provided within the previous seven days nor leading to an E/M service or procedure within the next 24 hours or soonest available appointment.Continue readingHow to increase patient access with virtual checkins
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