Posts by Dan Mountain
Telehealth and Covid-19 Moving Forward
Despite case numbers going down nationwide and over a million people being vaccinated against Covid-19 each day, people are still staying home and staying socially distant. This continues to be true for the HealthCare Industry as well. In order to try to slow the spread of Covid-19 and to ease the burden on hospitals and…
Read MoreIt’s the End of 2020… and Covid is Still a Thing.
How do you know if you should head back to Doctor’s office or not? I ran into a friend I hadn’t seen in a long time the other day. Literally ran into him as he was finishing a trail run and I was starting one from the same location. He and his wife are physical…
Read MoreWHY YOUR MEDICAL CARE FACILITY MIGHT WANT TO START OFFERING VIRTUAL TELEHEALTH APPOINTMENTS
Originally posted on 14 September 2020 at: https://www.richardandlizabethjohnson.com/2020/09/14/why-your-medical-care-facility-might-want-to-start-offering-virtual-telehealth-appointments/ The global health pandemic is causing more and more meetings to happen remotely. Whether it’s a meeting between business executives at your company or a meeting between a teacher and student for educational purposes, it’s clear that the world has changed and that virtual communication is now…
Read MoreIs Telehealth the New Normal?
As you can imagine, it has been quite a whirlwind for Secure Telehealth in 2020. Covid-19 and mandatory lock downs have cost people jobs and hurt our economy. Despite all of this, people needed help more than ever from their Doctors and Health care providers. Enter Telehealth. Mental Health professionals that value that face to…
Read More“I Can’t Imagine Going Back”
Seema Verma, administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, was quoted as saying, “I can’t imagine going back” when asked abuot the future of telehealth sessions for Medicare and Medicaid patients. She continued, “People recognize the value of this, so it seems like it would not be a good thing to force our…
Read MoreRapidly changing Telehealth Reimbursement Policies
At Secure Telehealth, we have spent the last ten years with 50 different pages dedicated to the reimbursement policies of the 50 different states. Laws have been changing regularly that whole time, but nothing like these past few months. In March, when the stay at home orders due to the Covid-19 virus were enacted all…
Read MoreTelehealth in the time of Covid-19
“I think the genie’s out of the bottle on this one,” Seema Verma, the CMS administrator, said. “I think it’s fair to say that the advent of telehealth has been just completely accelerated, that it’s taken this crisis to push us to a new frontier, but there’s absolutely no going back.” (see the article from…
Read MoreUpdate from the Virginia Community Service Boards Conference in Richmond, VA
I enjoy attending these smaller, state wide conferences to see what kinds of challenges people are facing in the world of behavioral health and substance use treatment. I get new ideas for how our telehealth software can be used to help or fill a need. One converstation introduced me to a new area where Secure…
Read MoreIncrease in Commercial Payer Coverage for Telehealth
It is and exciting time for Technology in Health Care and other Industries. One exciting development is the increase in Commercial Insurance plans being willing to cover Telehealth services. I wanted to share to articles with you and let you know how continues to be a great time to add telehealth programs to your organization…
Read MoreUpdate from North Carolina
Greetings from Beautiful Pinehurst, NC. It is just about 60 degrees and sunny and just one of those days where you dread being inside, especially with world class golf courses within walking distance. Anyway, I am here at the i2i Center for Integrative Health conference for Mental Health, Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, and Substance Use…
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