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21 Oct

How Medsien Makes Remote Care Programs Easy to Implement

by medsiensite
in Barriers, Benefits, Billing, Blog, Chronic Care Management, Education, Home, Remote Patient Monitoring
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  You are busy, and do not have the staff or time to implement a care management program. Your practice can’t invest the money for care management right now. We understand that. Medsien care management programs are different. We take care of implementing and staffing your care management programs, and require no upfront investment. We help you have care management and all its benefits for your...

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13 Sep

Why Medsien: Ensuring Compliance & Peace of Mind

by medsiensite
in Barriers, Benefits, Billing, Blog, Chronic Care Management, Education, Home, Remote Patient Monitoring
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At Medsien, we work as partners with our clients to ensure smooth, well-integrated remote care programs. Medsien’s approach of tracking and reporting, staffing, integration, and full communication is unique -- ensures transparency and compliance for every practice or health system.    We implement a detailed, accurate program so you can run your CCM and RPM with confidence and ease. The design of our programs, and specifically the...

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29 Jul

The Importance of Patient Engagement in A Successful Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) Program

by medsiensite
in Barriers, Benefits, Blog, Education, Home, Remote Patient Monitoring
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  RPM programs continuously track patients’ important vitals using cellular-connected devices and keep providers informed of important changes and trends in patient health.  A successful RPM program, however, must go beyond simply having the devices to monitor patients’ health status and data. Robust patient engagement is needed to drive successful use of RPM programs, and increase patient satisfaction. Medical practices and providers often think they have...

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12 Jul

How Does Chronic Care Management (CCM) Improve Outcomes and Reduce Costs?

by medsiensite
in Benefits, Blog, Chronic Care Management, Education, Home
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The cost of care for most chronic disease is quite high. Unmanaged diabetes, heart disease, and various other conditions often result in many expensive interventions, hospitalizations and poor outcomes. Many unmanaged chronic conditions lead to more emergency room (ED) visits, hospital admissions, more severe illness/co-morbidities and death.     Chronic Care Management, or CCM, is the coordination of care services, which are furnished outside of regular office visits....

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23 May

Principal Care Management (PCM) Overview & Benefits

by medsiensite
in Education, Principal Care Management
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PCM Overview CMS reimburses for Principal Care Management (PCM) services provided to beneficiaries with a single chronic condition needing to stabilize that condition following exacerbation or hospitalization. Unlike CCM, which requires a minimum of two conditions and the management of total patient care, PCM focuses on disease-specific care. The qualifying condition for reporting PCM codes would be a patient with one serious chronic condition, typically expected...

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02 May

Why Should We Hire Someone Else To Do This? The Challenges of Successful In-House Chronic Care Management (CCM) and Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) Programs

by medsiensite
in Barriers, Blog, Chronic Care Management, Education, Home
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    Clinical providers and policymakers have been talking about the quality improvement and cost-saving benefits of chronic disease management for some time. Most medical practices are fully aware of the clinical and cost benefits of Chronic Care Management (CCM) and Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM); so why aren’t they putting them into practice, or able to successfully yield the benefits when they do? The ongoing challenge for...

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30 Apr

Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) Overview & Benefits

by medsiensite
in Education, Remote Patient Monitoring
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    RPM Overview    Remote patient monitoring (RPM) programs (a subcategory of homecare telehealth), retrieve patient health status and data readings from automated personal devices a patient has or wears at home (e.g.heart or glucose monitor). Common physiological data that can be collected with RPM programs include vital signs, weight, blood pressure and heart rate. Data is transferred directly back to providers which allows the care team to...

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06 Apr

Annual Wellness Visit (AWV) Overview & Benefits

by medsiensite
in Annual Wellness Visits, Education
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    AWV Overview   The Annual Wellness Visit (AWV) is a Medicare specific annual health status check where patients have vitals and health status indicators assessed, to provide an opportunity for earlier support and intervention for chronic conditions or concerns. An AWV is not the same type of exam as an annual physical.  AWVs and annual physicals are assessed and billed differently.  An AWV is only for Medicare...

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02 Mar

Transitional Care Management (TCM) Overview & Benefits

by medsiensite
in Education, Transitional Care Management
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    TCM Overview   Transitional Care Management is a program designed to support and track Medicare patients in the 30 days following discharge from a hospital or treatment facility. Approximately 1 in 5 Medicare beneficiaries in the US are readmitted to the hospital within 30 days of discharge - a 20% readmission rate. TCM programs are designed to connect healthcare providers and patients during this critical 30 day...

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10 Feb

Chronic Care Management (CCM) Overview & Benefits

by medsiensite
in Chronic Care Management, Education
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  CCM Overview    The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) defines chronic conditions as those in which the patient is at significant risk of death, acute exacerbation/decompensation, or functional decline, and are expected to last until the death of the patient.    Chronic disease is rampant in the US, particularly among Medicare patients. Nearly 70% of Medicare beneficiaries have a minimum of two chronic conditions requiring care management,...

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