CARES Act Expands Telehealth Coverage for Medicare, FQHCs and the VA

The rapid and deadly spread of COVID through nursing homes will increase demand for home-based care as patients and families avoid shared spaces and stricter regulations drive up costs. Pre-COVID, the primary telehealth use case was for more convenient urgent care. Now that so many patients are comfortable with telehealth, there is the potential to... See more

More than 90% of the population lives within 5 miles of a pharmacy. There are about 327K pharmacists in the US and 486K total primary care providers (internal medicine, family medicine, pediatrics, etc.). Medicare beneficiaries, who are more likely to be on a recurring medication, see the pharmacist twice as often as their primary care physician. T... See more

Challenge #2: Low utilization of services to prevent and manage chronic conditions. With increasing consumer preference for convenient care options, we’re most interested in those virtual care technologies that leverage AI or asynchronous telemedicine to encourage the adoption of behaviors that prevent chronic illness.