Telehealth in the UAE: Medical codes created by the American Medical Association offers support
Telehealth in the UAE: Medical codes created by the American Medical Association offers support
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Current Procedural Terminology (CPT®) International
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See how the CPT® code set enables health systems outside of the U.S. to elevate patient outcomes, manage costs and improve productivity to expand access.
Medicare physician pay system needs a real fix—not more patches
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The AMA’s push to avert an 8.5% Medicare cut in the 2023 omnibus spending bill slowed down the wheels of a runaway train—but didn’t stop it completely. Physicians will still see a 2% cut in Medicare pay this year, with at least a 1.25% cut in store for 2024.
Throwing in patches and preventing cuts year after year after year is not sustainable, warned AMA Senior Vice President of Advocacy Todd Askew.
“We spend all our time trying to prevent a 2% cut, a 4% cut, an 8% cut. And nobody on Capitol Hill or within the administration is focused on fixing the root problem—and that's the payment system itself,” Askew said during a recent episode of “AMA Update.”
Askew also discussed why a 2% cut might force some practices to reconsider Medicare, underscoring the urgency of reforming the Medicare payment system.
Throwing in patches and preventing cuts year after year after year is not sustainable, warned AMA Senior Vice President of Advocacy Todd Askew.
“We spend all our time trying to prevent a 2% cut, a 4% cut, an 8% cut. And nobody on Capitol Hill or within the administration is focused on fixing the root problem—and that's the payment system itself,” Askew said during a recent episode of “AMA Update.”
Askew also discussed why a 2% cut might force some practices to reconsider Medicare, underscoring the urgency of reforming the Medicare payment system.
Implementation Framework
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The American Medical Association developed the Current Procedural Terminology (CPT®) Implementation Framework to support the understanding and successful adoption of CPT content. The downloadable Educational Handbook that explains the Framework is a resource to assist all audiences -- including leaders, teams, and individuals.
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CPT codes drive standardization, interoperability and transparency to improve the quality of care.
INCREASES ACCESS
Modern and digitalized CPT codes help coordinate care, increase engagement and widen access to care.
LOWERS COSTS
Standardized measurement unlocks efficiencies, informs predictive analytics and helps planning and managing resources.
The CPT Editorial Panel
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What is CPT? The Current Procedural Terminology (CPT®) codes developed by the American Medical Association (AMA) are the language of medicine and the code to its future. This video gives you the meaning of CPT and the CPT Editorial Panel.
What makes RVUs so important to CPT content?
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The American Medical Association has developed a two minute video introduction to the value of Relative Value Units (RVUs), a key element of the Current Procedural Terminology (CPT®).
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The Covid-19 pandemic has brought about many changes in the way we live and do business, and in the different sectors of the global economy, such as aviation, healthcare and real estate. Within healthcare, the UAWE government has pushed the needle with telehealth policies as it instituted stay-at-home orders during the lockdown last year. While millions of patients had to stay away from their physicians to stay safe, it accelerated the increased digitization of the healthcare industry, especially the use of telehealth services, that have included telediagnosis, telecounselling; telemedical interventions; teleconsultation; teleprescription; and telemonitoring.
Since April last year, hospitals and clinic call centres across the UAE have been flooded with patient queries. In September, for example, the Abu Dhabi Telemedicine Centre (ADTC) revealed a 2,000 per cent rise in the number of calls received since the start of the pandemic. As a result, healthcare providers have been ramping up their telehealth and telehealth capabilities.
Telehealth is a gateway to how healthcare will be delivered in the future and has enabled the transition to consumer-centric care paradigms. Because of the need to create social distancing in a safe environment and the introduction of reimbursement for virtual visits, telehealth has become an important communication and treatment tool during the Covid-19 pandemic.
However, new ways to deliver health care can face some hesitancy from some patients and doctors, and fully adapting a national health care system to new technologies and processes brings new challenges. Questions about the costs, administration and related coding and billing needed to be understood.
“Even before COVID-19, there was some hesitancy adopting telehealth services in the region, said Dr. Osama Elhassan, co-founder and the vice-chair of Emirates Health Informatics Society and Health Informatics Specialist at Dubai Health Authority. “We had to get the right digital frameworks in place so that we can ensure the quality of telehealth platforms, the flow of reimbursement processes, and also address privacy and security when using those platforms.”
Since April last year, hospitals and clinic call centres across the UAE have been flooded with patient queries. In September, for example, the Abu Dhabi Telemedicine Centre (ADTC) revealed a 2,000 per cent rise in the number of calls received since the start of the pandemic. As a result, healthcare providers have been ramping up their telehealth and telehealth capabilities.
Telehealth is a gateway to how healthcare will be delivered in the future and has enabled the transition to consumer-centric care paradigms. Because of the need to create social distancing in a safe environment and the introduction of reimbursement for virtual visits, telehealth has become an important communication and treatment tool during the Covid-19 pandemic.
However, new ways to deliver health care can face some hesitancy from some patients and doctors, and fully adapting a national health care system to new technologies and processes brings new challenges. Questions about the costs, administration and related coding and billing needed to be understood.
“Even before COVID-19, there was some hesitancy adopting telehealth services in the region, said Dr. Osama Elhassan, co-founder and the vice-chair of Emirates Health Informatics Society and Health Informatics Specialist at Dubai Health Authority. “We had to get the right digital frameworks in place so that we can ensure the quality of telehealth platforms, the flow of reimbursement processes, and also address privacy and security when using those platforms.”
