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Listen: Pandemic Shifts Health Care And It May Be Hard To Get Genie Back In Bottle
KHN’s Julie Rovner visits 鈥淗ere & Now鈥 to discuss the outlook for fundamental changes in the health care industry triggered by the coronavirus outbreak.
Society Is Reopening. Prepare To Hunker Down At Home Again.
First, businesses started to reopen; then racial justice protesters flooded the streets. Social distancing is beginning to fade. Are you ready for a second wave of COVID-19 infections 鈥 and a renewed lockdown?
Rapid Changes To Health System Spurred By COVID Might Be Here To Stay
The coronavirus pandemic has forced the nation鈥檚 doctors and hospitals to reevaluate how they work. At least three major changes may have a lasting impact.
Readers And Tweeters: Doctors Weigh In On Telemedicine Costs
Kaiser Health News gives readers a chance to comment on a recent batch of stories.
Telehealth Will Be Free, No Copays, They Said. But Angry Patients Are Getting Billed.
Politicians pledged to stop providers from charging for video appointments or telephone calls, but some patients are being charged $70 or $80 per virtual visit.
Vaping, Opioid Addiction Accelerate Coronavirus Risks, Says NIDA Director
Dr. Nora Volkow, who heads the National Institute on Drug Abuse, details how emerging science points to added challenges for these patient populations and the public health system.
Coronavirus Crisis Opens Access To Online Opioid Addiction Treatment
Under the national emergency, the government has waived a law that required patients to have an in-person visit with a physician before they could be prescribed drugs that help quell withdrawal symptoms, such as Suboxone. Now they can get those prescriptions via a phone call or videoconference with a doctor. That may give video addiction therapy a kick-start.
Coronavirus Fuels Explosive Growth In Telehealth 鈥 And Concern About Fraud
鈥淯nscrupulous providers鈥 could take advantage of the boom in treatment delivered via voice or video calls.
Dispatch From A Country Doctor: Seeing Patients Differently In The Time Of Coronavirus
Emergency rule changes by the federal government and some insurers have made telemedicine a useful tool.
KHN鈥檚 鈥榃hat The Health?鈥: All Coronavirus All The Time
The COVID-19 pandemic is forcing changes to the U.S. health system that were previously unthinkable. Yet some fights 鈥 including over the Affordable Care Act and abortion 鈥 persist even in this time of national emergency. Joanne Kenen of Politico, Margot Sanger-Katz of The New York Times and Alice Miranda Ollstein of Politico join KHN鈥檚 Julie Rovner to discuss this and more. Also, Rovner interviews KHN鈥檚 Liz Szabo about the latest installment of KHN-NPR鈥檚 鈥淏ill of the Month.鈥
Resurge la telemedicina, por miedo al coronavirus y cambios en los pagos
Millones de estadounidenses buscan atenci贸n conect谩ndose electr贸nicamente con un m茅dico, muchos por primera vez. Una pr谩ctica segura para atender a ciertas condiciones y seguimientos.
Telemedicine Surges, Fueled By Coronavirus Fears And Shift In Payment Rules
Millions of Americans are suddenly seeking care by connecting with a doctor electronically. Helping drive that trend, medical providers can now charge as much as they would for an office visit.
Denuncian fraude a Medicare con aparatos ortop茅dicos a trav茅s de la telemedicina
Llaman por tel茅fono o aparecen en un chat y preguntan si el adulto mayor siente alg煤n dolor. Luego le env铆an, en un caso, hasta 13 aparatos ortop茅dicos: rodilleras, cabestrillos, fajas. Facturan millones a Medicare.
Medicare Fraudsters Now Tap Telemedicine In Medical Equipment Scams
Scammers bent on defrauding Medicare are embracing the new technologies of remote diagnosis. Federal law enforcement is cracking down.
Por qu茅 Amazon Alexa puede ser mala para la atenci贸n de salud
Las firmas de capital privado y de riesgo est谩n enamoradas de una legi贸n de nuevas empresas que promocionan los beneficios de las visitas m茅dicas virtuales… 驴son buenas?
Analysis: Why Alexa’s Bedside Manner Is Bad For Health Care
Amazon’s personal assistant is gaining medical skills to provide coaching or transmit and monitor patient data. Besides the loss of the human touch, virtual medicine pursued in the name of business efficiency or profit bodes ill.
Doctors Give Medicare鈥檚 Proposal To Pay For Telemedicine Poor Prognosis
Federal officials are proposing that Medicare pay doctors for a 10-minute 鈥渃heck-in鈥 call with beneficiaries. But many doctors already do this for free, and the plan would require a cost-sharing charge of many patients.
Podcast: KHN鈥檚 鈥榃hat The Health?鈥 Ask Us Anything!
In this episode of KHN鈥檚 鈥淲hat the Health?鈥 Julie Rovner of Kaiser Health News, Anna Edney of Bloomberg News, Margot Sanger-Katz of The New York Times and Joanne Kenen of Politico answer listeners鈥 questions about health policy and politics.
Telemedicina: gu铆a para entender las citas m茅dicas a distancia
Algunos consideran que es la atenci贸n primaria del futuro. Otros temen que la telemedicina lesione el v铆nculo m茅dico-paciente. Lo cierto es que las citas virtuales crecen d铆a a d铆a.
Hoping To See Your Doctor Via Telemedicine? Here鈥檚 A Quick Guide.
All private health plans, Medicare, state Medicaid programs and the VA now cover some e-visits 鈥 albeit with restrictions.
