COVID-19: What Healthcare Leaders Need To Know About Telehealth and the CMS Policy Changes
Download MP3In this special episode of the MGMA Insights podcast, we continue our series on COVID-19 and how it’s impacting healthcare professionals and their patients. Experts agree that one of the most promising ways to keep patients and staff safe is through telehealth.
To help explain the recent policy changes by CMS, we're joined by Anders Gilberg, Sr. Vice President of Government Affairs with MGMA.
Also joining us to discuss the importance and best practices of telehealth and remote health as it relates to COVID-19 are Christian Milaster and Kathy Lentendre with Ingenium Healthcare Advisors.
You can keep up with the latest MGMA coverage by visiting the MGMA COVID-19 Action Center at MGMA.com/covid.
You can also track the advocacy Anders and his team is doing by typing #MGMAAdvocacy on your social media platforms.
And, you can learn more about telehealth education and best practices from Christian and Kathy by following them on LinkedIn:
Christian is at linkedin.com/in/christianmilaster
Kathy is at linkedin.com/in/kathyletendre
Additional telehealth information is available through Christian's weekly newsletter Telehealth Tuesday at IngeniumDigitalHealth.com/newsletter.
Additional resources:
www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/index.html
www.who.int/emergencies/disease…el-coronavirus-2019
In this special episode of the MGMA Insights podcast, we continue our series on COVID-19 and how it’s impacting healthcare professionals and their patients. Experts agree that one of the most promising ways to keep patients and staff safe is through telehealth.
To help explain the recent policy changes by CMS, we're joined by Anders Gilberg, Sr. Vice President of Government Affairs with MGMA.
Also joining us to discuss the importance and best practices of telehealth and remote health as it relates to COVID-19 are Christian Milaster and Kathy Lentendre with Ingenium Healthcare Advisors.
You can keep up with the latest MGMA coverage by visiting the MGMA COVID-19 Action Center at MGMA.com/covid.
You can also track the advocacy Anders and his team is doing by typing #MGMAAdvocacy on your social media platforms.
And, you can learn more about telehealth education and best practices from Christian and Kathy by following them on LinkedIn:
Christian is at linkedin.com/in/christianmilaster
Kathy is at linkedin.com/in/kathyletendre
Additional telehealth information is available through Christian's weekly newsletter Telehealth Tuesday at IngeniumDigitalHealth.com/newsletter.
Additional resources:
www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/index.html
www.who.int/emergencies/disease…el-coronavirus-2019
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