On Wednesday, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released its proposed calendar year 2025 physician fee schedule, which includes recommendations on coverage of digital health tools, including digital therapeutics and telehealth services.
To support access to behavioral health services, CMS proposed that Medicare pay for digital mental health treatment devices used in...
In part two of our two-part series, Patrick J. Kennedy, former U.S. Representative and founder of The Kennedy Forum, and Nawal Roy, CEO and founder of global behavioral health data platform Holmusk, discuss with MobiHealthNews how coverage for mental health has changed since the signing of the parity act and what steps the partners are taking to help lawmakers draft even more effective bills to...
Patrick J. Kennedy, former U.S. Representative and founder of the Kennedy Forum, is a leading voice on mental health and addiction. During his 16 years in the U.S. House of Representatives serving Rhode Island's First Congressional District he coauthored and sponsored the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act, which requires insurers to cover mental health and substance use disorders the...
The public health emergency declared in early 2020 was put in place to provide waivers from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to ease the burden on hospitals and other providers during the pandemic. It has been extended 12 times since its implementation and is finally slated to end on May 11.
Heather Meade, principal at Washington Council Ernst & Young, spoke with MobiHealthNews...
Healthcare price-transparency platform Turquoise Health has raised $20 million in Series A funding. The round was led by Andreessen Horowitz with participation from Bessemer, Box Group and Tiger Global.
WHAT IT DOES
Turquoise offers a platform where patients can search services and providers for cost information, compare cash prices and input insurance information to find out-of-pocket costs. The...
In the second episode of "Industry Voices", we talk to a range of healthcare changemakers encountered at HLTH in Boston last month about health equity. Is the industry's attitude toward this important topic changing? Is it changing fast enough? And what steps and attitudes will be necessary to make the future of healthcare an inherently equitable one?
This episode features the voices of Cityblock...
When evaluating new opportunities in any sector it is important to understand non-market influences – the role legislation, regulation, relationships, etc. have on things such as competitive advantage and new entrants - perhaps none more so than in healthcare.
The Centers for Medicaid and Medicare (CMS) operates as the nation’s largest payer, and the healthcare industry at large is heavily...
Facebook said it removed more than three dozen pages, groups and Facebook or Instagram accounts for spreading misinformation about COVID-19 vaccines.
The social media giant said the accounts were linked to 12 people who were accused in a much cited report by Center for Countering Digital Hate of disseminating the vast majority of vaccine misinformation on the network.
But Facebook disputes that...
