From September 18-24, 2022, the American Telemedicine Affiliation (ATA) will host its second annual Telehealth Consciousness Week to spotlight the vital function telehealth performs in offering entry to protected, high quality care to everybody who wants it. Created to strengthen the central function telehealth is enjoying in our on a regular basis supply of well being care providers to sufferers nationwide, particularly in the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, this occasion is a platform for members and companions of the ATA to boost consciousness, educate, and assist telehealth – as a result of telehealth is well being.
Foley & Lardner LLP is proud to assist this momentous week of particular occasions, which can embrace a sequence of digital classes, distinctive content material and white papers, and displays, to place a highlight on the worth of telehealth in a hybrid care mannequin that features in-person and digital care. Foley Companion Nathaniel Lacktman, chair of the agency’s nationwide Telemedicine & Digital Well being Trade Staff, was elected to the ATA Board of Administrators earlier this 12 months. We’re dedicated to a way forward for care supply that ensures all sufferers, irrespective of their location, can entry the standard care they deserve.
Because the pandemic continues to have an effect on the well being care business, well being expertise companies want to arrange for the inevitable transition of care that may come when the COVID-19 Public Well being Emergency (PHE) and related PHE waivers expire within the first half of 2023. Continuity of care is crucial and firms might want to determine tips on how to keep away from affected person abandonment when the waivers finish. Stakeholders might want to put together for the removing of main flexibilities for the usage of telehealth, together with the waiver of originating web site necessities and different boundaries to reimbursement for telehealth use and the redetermining of Medicaid eligibility.
The PHE allowed hundreds of thousands of individuals to entry well being care providers that they may in any other case have needed to forego in the course of the pandemic. Digital care applied sciences turned rather more extensively obtainable. For instance, the Workplace of Inspector Normal (OIG) for the U.S. Division of Well being and Human Companies performed a survey that over 28 million Medicare beneficiaries used telehealth in the course of the first 12 months of the pandemic, and telehealth accounted for 12 % of all providers utilized by beneficiaries in the course of the first 12 months of the pandemic. With the approaching PHE expiration, telehealth providers could come at a price for people who could not be capable of afford it.
Foley and the ATA, together with sufferers and suppliers alike, wish to make telehealth a everlasting choice for care supply. If you’re concerned with being part of the message #TelehealthIsHealth, please evaluation the Interactive Sponsorship alternatives. And dig into the ATA Useful resource Middle for a set of academic supplies contributed by organizations devoted to supporting broader entry to telehealth.
All ATA occasions this week are free and open to the general public, so be sure you additionally take benefit and register for one of many quite a few Telehealth Consciousness Week Occasions.
For the newest information and updates on different ATA hosted occasions and conferences subscribe to the ATA mailing listing. The ATA is the one group fully centered on advancing telehealth. It represents a broad and inclusive member community of greater than 400 organizations working to advance business adoption of telehealth, promote accountable coverage, advocate for presidency and market normalization, and supply training and assets to assist combine digital care into rising value-based supply fashions.
We hope you’ll be a part of us and the ATA in celebrating Telehealth Consciousness Week.
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