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Omnibus Package Delivered AAFP Advocacy Wins for Primary Care
Jan. 26, 2023 By Stephanie QuinnSenior vice president of advocacy, practice advancement and policy I want to pick up here where I left off earlier this month…
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Public Health Emergency (PHE)
Healthcare access, remote physical exams, rural and school health, reimbursement, clinical technology, and the evolving ways care can reach patients.
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Federal Fix to Telehealth Rules Would Secure Delivery System
BakerHostetler attorneys Vimala Devassy and Justin Chavez analyze how the extension of the Covid-19 public health emergency impacts telehealth practices. They say it’s important to have permanent…
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Group asks CMS to Issue Interim Final Rule to Preserve Telehealth Access
By Mark Melchionna January 23, 2023 – In pursuit of reliable telehealth access for Medicare beneficiaries, the Alliance for Connected Care wrote a letter to the Centers for Medicare and…
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It’s Time to Cement Telehealth’s Place in U.S. Health Care
By John Glaser and Kyle Zebley January 20, 2023 One of the few positive side effects of the deadly and catastrophically disruptive Covid-19 pandemic has been the blossoming of…
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Telehealth Integration and Optimization Toolkit
CONTENTS How will this Toolkit help me? This Toolkit will help you: Telehealth Integration and Optimization Toolkit Improve patient care through virtual health care delivery. Get the…
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What Does the Future Hold for Telehealth?
Telehealth remains a major topic of debate and study in the health policy community. This article looks at several recent newsworthy items in the telehealth space. This…
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UMass Memorial Health, UNC Health commend hospital-at-home programs, touting better outcomes, saved costs
Healthcare leaders are calling on Congress to extend a waiver that expanded flexibilities for hospital-at-home programs, saying continued reimbursement is critical to scale up these programs. Temporary waivers…
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Congress Extends Telehealth Benefits
Congress has extended telehealth benefits for Medicare beneficiaries and for participants in high-deductible health plans with health savings accounts. The extension keeps telehealth benefits in place that…
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•American Medical Association (AMA)
AMA’s advocacy efforts push for permanent telehealth advancements
COVID-19 has led to dramatic increases in adoption of telehealth by both physicians and patients. Policymakers should seize the opportunity to make permanent policy that supports many…
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Public Health Emergency Set for Extension: Lack of Notice Implies Renewal through Mid-October
The declared Public Health Emergency (PHE) under the Public Health Service Act will apparently be renewed at least one further time beyond its current July 15, 2022 expiration, as…
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HHS Renews Public Health Emergency, Keeping Key Home Health Waivers in Place
By Robert Holly | April 13, 2022 The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) on Wednesday opted to renew the COVID-19 public health emergency (PHE), keeping in place several regulatory…
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Telehealth Update: A Federal Appropriations Bill, A Positive OIG Report, and Good News from HHS
Last week saw a lot of great news in the world of telehealth. On March 15, President Biden signed into law H.R. 2471, the “Consolidated Appropriations Act,…
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•Federal Communications Commission (FCC)
FCC Closes Out Connected Care Pilot With $30M in New Grants
Sixteen new projects have been selected to receive the funding in the last round of the program established in 2020 to support the advancement of connected care.…
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Congress Extends Telehealth Flexibilities: 7 Things You Need to Know
The Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2022 (the Act), was passed by the U.S. House and Senate on March 9th and 10th, 2022, and signed into law by the President on March…
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