•Telehealth
Expansion of telehealth services must be sustained
The rapid growth and large-scale adoption of telehealth services over the past 18 months has allowed physicians to deliver a broad range of badly needed services to…
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Federal Agencies
Healthcare access, remote physical exams, rural and school health, reimbursement, clinical technology, and the evolving ways care can reach patients.
•Reimbursement
22 States Changed Policies to Include Pandemic Telehealth Coverage
A Commonwealth Fund study finds that states altered their policies surrounding audio-only telehealth, cost-sharing, and provider reimbursement to improve telehealth coverage during the coronavirus pandemic. By Victoria Bailey…
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•Telehealth
Senators Eye Medicare Coverage for Telehealth in Diabetes Prevention Programs
A group of Senators has re-introduced a bill that would establish Medicare coverage for telehealth services in CMS-sanctioned Diabetes Prevention Programs. By Eric Wicklund June 24, 2021 – A group…
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•COVID-19 - Coronavirus
Asking the Hard Questions About Telehealth
The COVID-19 pandemic revealed much about our Nation’s capacity—and shortcomings—when faced with an urgent health crisis. One positive aspect it exposed is our ability to adapt. A…
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•Telehealth
CMS Proposes $310M Home Health Payment Boost, National Expansion of HHVBP
The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) on Monday proposed plans to expand the Home Health Value-Based Purchasing (HHVBP) model nationwide by the start of…
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•Telehealth
Federal Agencies Make Billions Available to Support Telehealth and Close the Homework Gap
Federal agencies took several actions last week to spur broadband deployment, helping to alleviate what the pandemic has already highlighted – Americans need greater access to reliable,…
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•Remote Patient Monitoring
Hospital-at-Home Model Yields Lower Costs, Fewer Hospitalizations for Cancer Patients
Cancer patients who receive hospital-at-home care are less likely to experience unplanned hospitalizations, new research suggests. Those individuals likewise account for lower health care costs. The new…
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•CONNECT Act
CONNECT Act Reintroduced in Congress
WASHINGTON, D.C. (May 25, 2021)—Recently, legislation has been introduced in both the Senate and House of Representatives that would make various improvements to the provision of telehealth.…
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•Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) - Medicare
What will home care look like post-COVID-19? Brooks-LaSure will help guide us
It is not a coincidence that two symbolic healthcare policy events took place this week. I’m talking about the Senate’s confirmation of Chiquita Brooks-LaSure as administrator of the Centers…
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•Telehealth
MANCHIN, ERNST, SHAHEEN, MORAN INTRODUCE BIPARTISAN BILL TO MAKE RURAL, UNDERSERVED TELEHEALTH FLEXIBILITIES PERMANENT
Washington, DC – Today, U.S. Senators Joe Manchin (D-WV), Joni Ernst (R-IA), Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), and Jerry Moran (R-KS) introduced the bipartisan Protecting Rural Telehealth Access Act to make…
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•Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) - Medicare
Federal proposal would permanently expand some Medicare telehealth services
Medicare nursing home residents would keep their access to some telehealth flexibilities adopted during the COVID-19 pandemic long after the public health crisis is over under a…
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•Telehealth
Senators introduce bipartisan bill aimed at safeguarding rural telehealth access
Meanwhile, Oregon becomes the latest state to enact its own telehealth legislation. By Kat Jercich June 15, 2021 02:55 PM U.S. senators this past week introduced another…
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•Telehealth
Cassidy, Smith, Cardin, Thune Introduce Bill to Remove Barriers to Telemental Health Care
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), Tina Smith (D-MN), John Thune (R-SD), and Ben Cardin (D-MD) introduced the bipartisan Telemental Health Care Access Act of 2021 to remove…
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•Telehealth
GAO ON TELEHEALTH AND OTHER WAIVERS: ‘CAREFUL MONITORING IS WARRANTED’
WASHINGTON – Members of the Government Accountability Office testified before Congress last week saying, while Medicare beneficiaries and providers have benefitted from program waivers and other flexibilities,…
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•Telehealth
Pandemic’s telehealth advances will be lost if Congress doesn’t act
The pandemic has proven telehealth is a critical part of effective, efficient and equitable health care, and the AMA is encouraging Congress to act now so patients…
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