The National Organization of State Offices of Rural Health (NOSORH) sets aside the third Thursday of every November to celebrate National Rural Health Day (NRHD). National Rural Health Day is an opportunity to “Celebrate the Power of Rural” by honoring the selfless, community-minded spirit that prevails in rural America. NRHD showcases the efforts of rural
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Remote Patient Monitoring,  or RPM, helps patients stay healthy by doing their routine tests and check-ups outside the four walls of traditional health care settings. Using devices that tap digital technology, patients can collect data about their health — heart rate, weight, blood pressure, heart rate, blood sugar, and more — throughout the day. Then
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This session will explain remote monitoring services, code descriptions and requirements, and billing rules. We will also cover Medicare’s newly established benefits for remote therapeutic monitoring – a new set of codes going into effect for 2022. Gray areas, anticipated future guidance, and compliance pitfalls will be reviewed   https://redcap.kumc.edu/surveys/?s=LRMW3F4KR4  
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Now more than ever, revenue integrity is critical. Audits of coding, billing, and payment accuracy are necessary to preserve the Medicare program’s integrity as well, but can considerably interfere with a healthcare provider’s operations and cash flow. This session discusses types of Medicare audits, strategies for successfully approaching audits, and discussion of the appeal process
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Outcome Objectives: 1. Learn about RESNA -free special interest groups, committee standardization groups for new assistive technology products and services, medical software useful for 3rd party on group 3 wheelchairs. 2. Learn about 2 smart home devices and how they can be applied and help with medical monitoring. 3. Learn about how remote support services
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In the first session of the 2022 Office Hours series, we focused on the many policy changes coming into effect in the new year. While many of the barriers to telehealth were removed during the COVID pandemic, it's important to understand which temporary telehealth policies disappear when the public health emergency ends. CTRC provided a
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Mei Kwong, Executive Director for the Center for Connected Health Policy (CCHP), the federally designated telehealth policy resource center, will provide an update on federal and state telehealth policy, what’s been made permanent, what’s still temporary and what we may see in the coming months. The presentation will include updates on Medicare and potential 2022
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This webinar will dive into lessons learned from the Pandemic Response Action Plan project, a workgroup conducted by the Telehealth Technology Assessment Center. Topics will include 11 Key Critical Challenge Areas, a review of potential weaknesses in organizational response, and organizational opportunities that can help improve response to a pandemic public health emergency. REGISTER HERE
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This 4-part webinar series will address these concerns by identifying barriers and by highlighting sustainable models that have reduced inequalities and improved health outcomes. Presenters will describe the role of telehealth and what staffing, programmatic, and process changes have been implemented to increase access to health care, and social services.  

HRSA recently announced the next Health Centered Control Network goals, metrics, and timelines. Attend this information session to learn how OCHIN will continue to support your health centers' goals and priorities with the OCHIN's next HCCN. During this session, we will present a general overview of OCHIN’s Health Center Controlled Network (HCCN), highlight the benefits
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