Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) – Medicare

Telehealth – Here to Stay (At Least for Now): CMS Considers Permanent Expansion of Telehealth Services in Proposed Rule

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Telehealth – Here to Stay (At Least for Now): CMS Considers Permanent Expansion of Telehealth Services in Proposed Rule

On July 13, 2021, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) published its annual proposed changes to the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule. Among the 1,747 pages of proposals, one notable standout is the announcement that CMS is considering permanently keeping the temporary additions to the list of approved telehealth services that was expanded during the COVID-19 public health […]

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CMS proposes to cover mental health virtual visits through 2022

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CMS proposes to cover mental health virtual visits through 2022

In the 1,747-page rule, which will be finalized later this year, CMS proposes expanding access to telehealth for behavioral healthcare, including for the first time allowing Medicare to pay for mental health virtual visits when they are provided by rural health clinics and federally qualified health centers and letting providers offer audio-only telehealth visits for […]

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Expansion of telehealth services must be sustained

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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 patients nationwide in an innovative, cost-effective manner. Now it’s time to cement that success by making permanent the temporary easing of restrictions that brought the full potential of […]

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Telehealth Mobile App Online Treatment and Health care

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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 July 12, 2021 – Telehealth coverage has significantly increased across the country during the coronavirus pandemic, but the challenge lies in maintaining that coverage after the pandemic is over, according […]

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Senators Seek CMS Support for Telehealth Services for Expectant Moms

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Creating Opportunities Now for Necessary and Effective Care Technologies (CONNECT) for Health Act of 2021

Connect for Health Act of 2021 Reintroduced Tuesday, June 22, 2021 On 29 April 2021, Senator Brian Schatz (D-HI) reintroduced the Creating Opportunities Now for Necessary and Effective Care Technologies (CONNECT) for Health Act of 2021, S. 1512 (the Act).1 The bill, which currently has 59 cosponsors in the Senate,2 aims to codify the currently expanded access […]

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CMS Proposes Calendar Year 2022 Home Health Prospective Payment System Rate Update

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CMS Proposes Calendar Year 2022 Home Health Prospective Payment System Rate Update

CMS Proposes Calendar Year 2022 Home Health Prospective Payment System Rate Update Jun 28, 2021  Today, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) took action to improve home health care for older adults and people with disabilities through a proposed rule that would accelerate the shift from paying for Medicare home health services based […]

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Senators Eye Medicare Coverage for Telehealth in Diabetes Prevention Programs

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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 of Senators has re-introduced a bill that would establish Medicare coverage for care providers who use telehealth in diabetes prevention programs. The Promoting Responsible and Effective Virtual Experiences through […]

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What is the long term prognosis for telehealth

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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 case in point is telehealth. Like many others, I found the healthcare community’s ability to innovate nothing short of amazing. In February 2020, just before the pandemic emerged, […]

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CMS Proposes Significant Changes to Remote Patient Monitoring Coverage

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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 next year. The agency did so in its proposed payment rule for 2022. In addition to the HHVBP expansion, CMS proposed to increase Medicare payments to home health […]

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NACH Analyzes Latest Proposed Rule for Home Health

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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 findings — focused on Huntsman at Home, a cancer hospital-at-home model operated by the Huntsman Cancer Institute at the University of Utah — were published earlier this month […]

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Stark Law Changes Should Benefit Telehealth, Remote Patient Monitoring

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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. The Creating Opportunities Now for Necessary and Effective Care Technologies (CONNECT) for Health Act of 2021 (S. 1512/H.R. 2903) is being led by Sens. Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii), Roger […]

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How Telehealth Can Help Stroke Patients in Rural Hospitals

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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 for Medicare & Medicaid Services and the introduction of H.R. 3447, the Permanency for Audio-Only Telehealth Act. The latter would allow for Medicare coverage of audio-only telehealth services […]

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American Rescue Plan 2021

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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 current telehealth flexibilities permanent. This legislation would ensure rural and underserved community healthcare providers are able to continue offering telehealth services after the current public health emergency ends. […]

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Federal proposal would permanently expand some Medicare telehealth services

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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 new proposal from a bipartisan group of lawmakers.  The legislation — Protecting Rural Telehealth Access Act — was introduced late last week by Sens. Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Joe […]

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