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Telehealth vs. Communication Technology-Based Services (CTBS): Implications for Medicare Reimbursement

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With the recent extension of the telehealth waivers (until September 30, 2025) to allow services to continue being reimbursed without stringent rural and facility-based requirements, one key distinction deserves attention: Communication Technology-Based Services (CTBS). The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) separated CTBS from traditional telehealth in 2019 when they announced through their 2019…

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Signal controversy: Why the secure messaging app is all over the news

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You probably use text message, Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, or even Instagram to chat with others. And while those messaging apps work fine, some still seek out alternatives that lean hard into a promise of security and privacy—like Signal. Signal is an end-to-end encrypted app (E2EE), which means it encrypts every message before it leaves your…

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Visually impaired NBA fans experience the game on a new level with haptic device

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PORTLAND, Ore. — Brian Vu has been a fan of the NBA for 14 years, but he has never experienced a game like the one he attended last week in Portland. Not only did his hometown Trail Blazers beat the Memphis Grizzlies, but also for the first time in his life, Vu said he felt…

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The Millennial Exit | The New Yorker

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It happens one night. Sooner than you imagined it would. To your surprise, the lounge is filled with a palpable, serendipitous energy. The kind that makes you feel glad you decided to put on pants and leave the house this evening. A remarkable, slutty effervescence you haven’t felt in some time. You graze shoulders with…

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Chinese consumer companies signal spending is picking up again

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Shoppers line up to shop at a Laopu Gold outlet in Deji Plaza in Nanjing, China, on Feb. 21, 2025. Fang Dongxu | Feature China | Future Publishing | Getty Images BEIJING — Chinese companies’ latest earnings reports point to an improvement in consumer spending, though it’s not necessarily back to pre-pandemic levels. E-commerce giants…

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45 colleges are under investigation for ties to the Ph.D. Project : NPR

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The campus of Yale University seen in New Haven, Conn. Yale is one of 45 colleges that are under investigation for allegedly engaging in “race-exclusionary practices.” Joe Buglewicz/Bloomberg via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Joe Buglewicz/Bloomberg via Getty Images When Leyland Lucas was a Ph.D. student at Rutgers University, there weren’t a lot of…

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ChatGPT’s Studio Ghibli Style Animations Are Almost Too Good

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Animated movies, like those from the famed Japanese filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki, are not made in a hurry. The intricate hand drawings and attention paid to every single detail can make for a slow, potentially yearslong process. Or, you could simply ask ChatGPT to turn any old photo into a facsimile of Mr. Miyazaki’s work in…

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Jennings: Without JuJu Watkins, the show goes on. Expect women’s March Madness to deliver

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So much had been heaped on JuJu Watkins from the start — from the moment she set foot on USC’s campus, she was the one who would bring the program back to the mountaintop. This season, she was the player who would carry the star power in women’s college basketball in the wake of Caitlin…

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Author John Green believes telling stories is magic : NPR

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A note from Wild Card host Rachel Martin: Different people have different reference points for John Green. He is most famous as the young adult author who wrote the massively popular book The Fault in Our Stars, which was turned into a movie by the same name. But then there are the millions of people…

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Bets on US Weakness Are Fueling a Rally Across Emerging Markets

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(Bloomberg) — Some investors are betting the good times are only beginning for emerging markets as worries over the US economy boost the allure of the long-suffering asset class. Most Read from Bloomberg Fueling the shift are expectations that President Donald Trump’s tariff policies will weigh on US growth and force traders to look abroad,…

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