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‘They Shot from the Hip’: Home Health Providers Sound Off on CMS
The COVID-19 virus has thrown a wrench into any home health care plans the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) initially had for 2020. Instead…
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Telehealth
Healthcare access, remote physical exams, rural and school health, reimbursement, clinical technology, and the evolving ways care can reach patients.
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COVID-19 presents a new chance to make telehealth accessible to the underserved
Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, regulatory, reimbursement and technological changes have all helped trigger a massive and rapid expansion of telehealth accessibility. At the same…
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COVID-19 could be a watershed moment for telehealth policy
Stakeholders are calling on the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to make telehealth policy changes permanent. Healthcare stakeholders are calling for telehealth policy changes made during…
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FDA expands guidance on remote monitoring devices for COVID-19
Posted 08 June 2020 | By Kari Oakes Guidance on use of non-invasive remote monitoring devices for patient care during the coronavirus public health emergency was expanded and…
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AMGA Recommends Keeping Telehealth Expansion, Flexibilities After COVID-19 Pandemic
The reality of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), which has caused social distancing, stay-at-home orders, and self-imposed quarantines after potential interaction with a sick individual, has necessitated…
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A Novel Response to Emergency Treatment & Transport
Jun 6, 2020 Currently, Medicare fee-for-service (FFS) pays for ambulance services only when patients are transported to covered destinations, mainly the ED. This incentive of traditional ambulance…
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How Will Telehealth Change After the Pandemic?
Sudden adoption of virtual care brings long-term legal challenges as the platform’s popularity outlasts the pandemic. Following previous incremental advancements in telehealth, the COVID-19 pandemic thrust the…
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Calls mount for CMS to extend telehealth waivers
Dive Brief: Influential lobbying group American College of Physicians has asked CMS to extend its current waivers allowing reimbursement for telemedicine services at least until the end of 2021,…
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Medicare Advantage plans face ‘double whammy’ of pent-up care demand and risk scores: experts
Medicare Advantage plans need to figure out how the delay of care due to the COVID-19 pandemic will impact their risk scores in the long term, experts…
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FTC Weighs In On Expanding CMS Telehealth Coverage Beyond COVID-19
The Federal Trade Commission has offered its views on several proposals to expand Medicare and Medicaid coverage for telehealth services after the COVID-19 emergency is over. June…
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Internists Say Flexibilities for Telehealth and Other Regulatory Waivers Should be Extended
Washington, DC (June 4, 2020) In a letter sent this afternoon to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) the American College of Physicians (ACP) said…
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FTC Comments on New Medicare Rule in Support of Expanded Telehealth Services
On May 29th, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) submitted a comment to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) in support of reducing reimbursement requirements for telehealth services.…
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Anthem offering $2.5B in financial assistance to members, providers impacted by COVID-19
Anthem will make $2.5 billion in financial assistance available to customers and providers as they weather the coronavirus pandemic, including premium credits for cash-strapped members and funding to…
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American Medical Association (AMA)
In COVID-19 crisis, AMA’s powerful voice rings out to save lives
What’s the news: In a global pandemic that has demanded an all-hands-on-deck response, the AMA’s outstanding advocacy efforts have led to billions in emergency funding to help physician…
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Telehealth is the future- and the future has arrived
By: Bill Dacey June 3, 2020 For several years, we’ve seen Medicare and the American Medical Association’s Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) manual slowly approach the age of…
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