Aetna is modifying its commercial policy to no longer cover certain telemedicine services starting on December 1, the company said by statement. This is for audio-only and asynchronous text-based visits that were expanded under the public health emergency, the CVS subsidiary said.
A new audit by the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of the Inspector General has found that health insurer Aetna received about $25.5 million in Medicare Advantage overpayments in 2015 and ’16.
Rev1 Ventures focuses on the core areas of therapeutics, medical devices and diagnostics. It invests in digital health and health information technology, says Ryan Helon, EVP of investment funds.
Mental Health provider Brightside Health is teaming with Optum and other healthcare organizations to offer telehealth-based mental healthcare to Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries. In addition to Optum – through which Brightside will serve UnitedHealthcare Medicare Advantage members – the organization has established new and expanded partnerships with Centene, Lucet (to serve Florida Blue members), and […]
The Drug Enforcement Administration has extended flexibilities for remote prescribing of controlled substances through the end of 2024. Final telemedicine regulations are expected to be issued by the fall of 2024, the DEA said.
Talkspace pioneered text therapy and uses machine learning algorithms to identify patterns in language that could signal an alert, says CTO Gil Margolin.
Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, a founding member of Mass General Brigham and a teaching affiliate of Harvard Medical School, is partnering with Samsung Medical Center in South Korea to research how digital wearables affect wellness.
MorganFranklin Consulting’s Ferdinand Hamada and Matt DeFrain offer their perspectives on the current threat environment and how health systems can build better cybersecurity resilience and business continuity strategies.
ProHealth Care, based in Wisconsin, is teaming up with Optum, part of UnitedHealth Group, on revenue cycle management and other technology in an effort to shore up its tech solutions and enhance patient care.
The Office of Research Integrity has issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) to update the 2005 Public Health Service Policies on Research Misconduct. The current regulation establishes the requirements for addressing research misconduct in PHS-funded research.