CMS mobile health

Mental health screening app benefits from CMS payment decision

By Neil Versel 03:49 am March 27, 2012

A recent decision by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to start covering preventive screening for depression and alcohol abuse is paving the way for wider use of a mobile app that helps primary care physicians find signs of mental illness that might otherwise be missed. As part of healthcare reform efforts, CMS said in October that it would pay for annual screenings for both...

CMS taps Text4Baby to up Medicaid enrollment

By Brian Dolan 12:09 pm February 29, 2012

This week the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare announced plans to leverage the Text4Baby SMS-based initiative to increase enrollment in Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP). Text4Baby currently counts about 300,000 users of its free health tips via text messages for pregnant women about pregnancy and infant care. The Text4Baby program first launched two years ago and is...