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Acute Inpatient PPS
Learn What’s New for FY 2024 CMS issued FY 2024 Hospital Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) and Long Term Care Hospital Prospective Payment System (LTCH PPS) final rules to update IPPS…
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COVID-19 – Coronavirus
Healthcare access, remote physical exams, rural and school health, reimbursement, clinical technology, and the evolving ways care can reach patients.
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The ATA Telehealth Essentials Guide for Healthcare Providers
Eight Essentials of Effective Telehealth Services, including: The Essentials Guide was made possible thanks to the generous support of the David M.C. Ju Foundation.
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TELEHEALTH LOBBY LAUDS CMS’ ’24 PHYSICIAN FEE SKED PROPOSED RULE
The American Telemedicine Association and affiliate ATA Action are voicing support for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ proposed rule for the 2024 Physician Fee Schedule, which the advocates note extends…
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42 CFR § 411.15 – Particular Services Excluded from Coverage.
§ 411.15 Particular services excluded from coverage. Link to an amendment published at 88 FR 53345, Aug. 7, 2023. The following services are excluded from coverage: (a) Routine physical…
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CMS Allows States To Extend PHE-Era Flexibilities For HCBS
The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has extended a COVID-19 pandemic-era waiver that will allow home- and community-based service (HCBS) providers to take advantage…
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FDA Seeks Feedback on Technologies That can Enable Healthcare at Home
Dive Brief: Dive Insight: The development of remote patient-monitoring devices and other connected medical technologies has made it possible to treat more patients at home. In theory,…
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Congress Lines Up to Support Permanent Changes to Telehealth Rules
Telehealth changes that helped physicians and patients during the COVID-19 pandemic could become permanent under a new bill pending in Congress. Meanwhile, another leading physician group is supporting site-neutral…
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Telehealth groups applaud CONNECT reintroduction in Senate
Dive Brief: Dive Insight: Permanently expanding telemedicine access has broad bipartisan support in Congress. A number of bills have been introduced to codify more telehealth protections after COVID-19, including…
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Near supermajority in Senate backs telehealth’s future
What’s the news: A bipartisan group of 60 senators has reintroduced the Creating Opportunities Now for Necessary and Effective Care Technologies (CONNECT) for Health Act. The CONNECT for…
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US Senators Support Permanent Telehealth Access Through Legislation
June 16, 2023 – In support of continued telehealth access, a bipartisan group of 60 United States senators reintroduced the Creating Opportunities Now for Necessary and Effective Care Technologies (CONNECT)…
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Virtual-first health plans: Faster, affordable care for your employees
Over the last several years, Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Missouri has been expanding access to care through telehealth, urging consumers to use this valuable…
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Legislation Aims to Support Telehealth Access in Rural Areas
May 24, 2023 – Earlier this month, a group of six United States House representatives introduced the Protecting Rural Telehealth Access Act, which intends to maintain regional telehealth access and…
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Congress Urged to Make Telehealth Access Permanent
Telehealth Access for America wrote a letter urging Congress to recognize the value of virtual care and the need to protect it. Telehealth Access for America (TAFA),…
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