A letter organized by the Alliance to Fight for Health Care and signed by over 350 health care stakeholders urged Congress to extend the telehealth provision allowing employers to offer telehealth services pre-deductible to qualifying employees, according to mHealth Intelligence. The American Telemedicine Association, One Medical, and Blue Cross Blue Shield Association are among the group […]
In pursuit of broader telehealth affordability, the Alliance to Fight for Health Care organized a letter to Congress that requests an extension of the telehealth provision allowing employers to offer telehealth services pre-deductible to employees with a Health Savings Account (HSA). The Alliance to Fight for Health Care is a group of businesses, patient advocates, employer organizations, […]
The American Telemedicine Association (ATA) and ATA Action co-led a letter, along with the American Psychiatric Association (APA) and the American Association of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (AACAP), urging the Biden administration and the DEA to take action to ensure patients now remotely accessing clinically appropriate care do not have their access to care interrupted when the public health […]
WASHINGTON, DC, NOVEMBER 11, 2022 – The American Telemedicine Association (ATA) and ATA Action co-led a letter, along with the American Psychiatric Association (APA) and the American Association of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (AACAP), urging the Biden administration and the DEA to take action to ensure the vulnerable cohort of patients now remotely accessing clinically appropriate care do not […]
The American Telehealth Association is working with Congress and several federal agencies to shape the fate of policies and payments for telehealth services that experienced a rapid uptake during the COVID-19 pandemic. WHY IT MATTERS Now that President Joe Biden has declared the COVID-19 pandemic over, the ATA’s Telehealth Awareness Week policy update webinar explored […]
ATA and ATA Action shared high levels of support for new telehealth legislation supporting the expansion of PHE flexibilities. By Mark Melchionna July 26, 2022 – The American Telemedicine Association (ATA) and ATA Action said it strongly supports the expansion of public health emergency (PHE) flexibilities sponsored by US Representatives Debbie Dingell (D-MI) and Liz Cheney (R-WY). The […]
Pressure is ratcheting up on Congress to extend, and possibly make permanent, the eased access to telehealth for Medicare beneficiaries that has been in effect since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. On January 28, 45 members of Congress from both parties wrote to the leaders of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives urging them to introduce […]
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, 2022”, which extends many of the Medicare telehealth flexibilities put in place during the COVID-19 pandemic for a period following the end of the Public Health Emergency (PHE). […]
A bipartisan bill has been introduced to expand telehealth access for two years. Hundreds of advocates are calling on Congress to ensure permanent access. Healthcare advocates have been pushing Washington to ensure wide access to telehealth continues beyond the COVID-19 pandemic, and the effort seems to be making progress. This week, a bipartisan bill was […]
The organization said that doing so would allow patients to continue accessing care while giving Congress time to enact permanent policies. By Kat Jercich October 20, 2021 11:43 AM The American Telemedicine Association issued a letter to U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra this week urging the agency to extend the […]
The American Telemedicine Association is pressing Congress to repeal a rule in the 2022 Physician Fee Schedule that would require an in-person visit every six months in order for Medicare beneficiaries to receive telehealth services. The ATA submitted detailed comments to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services last week and offered support for CMS’s efforts to […]
Faegre Drinker professionals Sarah-Lloyd Stevenson, Megan Herber, Nisha Quasba and Libby Baney provide ongoing support to the American Telemedicine Association’s (ATA) policy work. This month, the comment period for the Calendar Year 2022 Physician Fee Schedule (CY 2022 PFS) will close, marking an important regulatory step in how providers will be reimbursed for health care services next […]
The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 quickly led to rapid adoption of telehealth across all healthcare sectors, including hospice and palliative care. A year later, hospice and palliative clinicians continue to incorporate telehealth into their daily practices to help establish, implement and inform a plan of care for home-based, seriously ill patients and […]
The American Telemedicine Association and Alliance for Connected Care are among a group of 430 organizations urging Congress to expand virtual care coverage before the COVID-19 public health emergency ends. The organizations sent a letter July 26 to lawmakers asking to approve permanent telehealth provisions for Medicare beneficiaries, including removing geographical barriers for telehealth usage […]