• Revenue Cycle Management
  • COVID-19
  • Reimbursement
  • Diabetes Awareness Month
  • Risk Management
  • Patient Retention
  • Staffing
  • Medical Economics® 100th Anniversary
  • Coding and documentation
  • Business of Endocrinology
  • Telehealth
  • Physicians Financial News
  • Cybersecurity
  • Cardiovascular Clinical Consult
  • Locum Tenens, brought to you by LocumLife®
  • Weight Management
  • Business of Women's Health
  • Practice Efficiency
  • Finance and Wealth
  • EHRs
  • Remote Patient Monitoring
  • Sponsored Webinars
  • Medical Technology
  • Billing and collections
  • Acute Pain Management
  • Exclusive Content
  • Value-based Care
  • Business of Pediatrics
  • Concierge Medicine 2.0 by Castle Connolly Private Health Partners
  • Practice Growth
  • Concierge Medicine
  • Business of Cardiology
  • Implementing the Topcon Ocular Telehealth Platform
  • Malpractice
  • Influenza
  • Sexual Health
  • Chronic Conditions
  • Technology
  • Legal and Policy
  • Money
  • Opinion
  • Vaccines
  • Practice Management
  • Patient Relations
  • Careers

Texas health assistance program set to fold

Article

The TEXAS Consumer Health Assistance Program, which helps consumers find affordable health insurance, is expected to close due to lack of federal funding.

The TEXAS Consumer Health Assistance Program, which helps consumers find affordable health insurance, is expected to close due to lack of federal funding. Staffers operate a hotline and host events around the state to make Texans more aware of coverage options. Funding for the program and similar ones in other states was provided as part of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act but has fallen victim to congressional budget squabbling.

Telemedicine is thriving in GEORGIA. The Georgia Partnership for Telehealth Network has expanded to include nursing homes, emergency departments, school clinics, primary care, and other providers with 175 physicians in 40 specialties. Telemedicine sessions rose to more than 40,000 in 2011 from 200 in 2006. In 2005, the state passed a rule requiring insurers to reimburse providers for telemedicine sessions at the same levels as for office visits. That rule, along with gains in technology, boosted the spread of telemedicine.

Related Videos