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Rosen Leads Bipartisan Group of Senators to Introduce Bipartisan Legislation To Expand Access To Telehealth Services

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Jacky Rosen (D-NV), a member of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP), and Senator Dan Sullivan (R-AK), led a bipartisan group of Senators – including Senators Jon Tester (D-MT), Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV), Ben Ray Lujan (D-NM), and Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) –...

July 6, 2021 Dr. A. Connor COVID-19 - Coronavirus, Legislation, Medicaid, Telehealth.

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...

July 2, 2021 Dr. A. Connor Medicaid, Medicare, Telehealth.

As State Emergencies End, Providers Look for New Telehealth Limits

Healthcare providers in some states are scrambling to determine what their telehealth platforms can and can’t do in the wake of expiring state emergency declarations. By Eric Wicklund June 29, 2021 – As the pandemic eases and state public health emergencies expire, healthcare providers are scrambling to figure out what they can...

July 1, 2021 Dr. A. Connor COVID-19 - Coronavirus, Medicaid, Medicare, Telehealth.

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...

June 29, 2021 Dr. A. Connor COVID-19 - Coronavirus, Medicaid, Medicare, Remote Patient Monitoring.

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...

Dr. A. Connor COVID-19 - Coronavirus, Medicaid, Medicare, Reimbursement, Telehealth.

Are States Making COVID-19 Telehealth Emergency Measures Permanent?

Texas may be among the first of many states to enact laws that encourage providers to continue electronically communicating with and monitoring their patients after COVID-19 emergency regulations and governors’ orders expire. State legislatures are acknowledging the advantages telehealth offered during COVID-19 and are making major changes to pre-pandemic...

Dr. A. Connor COVID-19 - Coronavirus, Medicaid, Remote Patient Monitoring, Telehealth, Telemedicine.

Executive Summary – Tracking Telehealth Changes State-by-State in Response to COVID-19 – June, 2021

June 22, 2021 Dr. M Telehealth Medicaid, Medicare, Medicare Advantage (MA), Reimbursement, Telemedicine.

Executive Summary – Tracking Telehealth Changes State-by-State in Response to COVID-19 – April, 2021

Dr. M Telehealth Medicaid, Medicare, Medicare Advantage (MA), Reimbursement, Telehealth.

GAO ON TELEHEALTH AND OTHER WAIVERS: ‘CAREFUL MONITORING IS WARRANTED’

WASHINGTON – Members of the Government Accountability Office testified before Congress last week saying, while Medicare beneficiaries and providers have benefitted from program waivers and other flexibilities, their continued use beyond the pandemic increases risks and raise considerations. Among those risks and considerations: Increased spending: Telehealth waivers can increase...

June 1, 2021 Dr. A. Connor Medicaid, Medicare, Telehealth.

Telehealth: How the Pandemic Is Shaping the Future of Remote Healthcare

As of late March 2021, 475 million people worldwide have received a COVID-19 vaccine. Although a return to normalcy is drawing closer, it is unclear how state and federal governments will regulate and reimburse for telehealth services when temporary telehealth policies expire at the end of the COVID-19 public...

May 26, 2021 Dr. A. Connor COVID-19 - Coronavirus, Medicaid, Medicare, Medicare Advantage (MA), Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC), Reimbursement, Telehealth.

Telehealth Update: States Move to Permanently Expand Access to Telehealth

As previously covered, over the past year the telehealth landscape has been a patchwork of temporary waivers and regulations, expanding access during the COVID-19 pandemic but leaving providers and patients uncertain about whether the positive coverage and reimbursement changes and relaxation of pre-pandemic restrictions would continue in the future. ...

Dr. A. Connor COVID-19 - Coronavirus, Medicaid, Reimbursement, Remote Patient Monitoring, Telehealth.

Menendez, Sullivan Introduce Bipartisan Legislation to Close Digital Divide, Address Disparities in Maternal Mortality

WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Senators Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), a senior member of the Senate Finance Committee that sets national health policy, and Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) formally introduced bipartisan legislation today to close the digital divide in health care and address racial and ethnic disparities in maternal health outcomes. The...

May 19, 2021 Dr. A. Connor American Telemedicine Association (ATA), COVID-19 - Coronavirus, Medicaid, Medicare, Remote Patient Monitoring, Telehealth, Telemedicine.

Rural hospitals contend with an expensive shift to digital amid shrinking margins

The Covid-19 pandemic has decimated hospital finances, and as a result, rural providers are forced to make key IT spending decisions with limited dollars. Here is a snapshot of how they will prioritize those dollars this year and the federal support they need to survive the ongoing public health...

Dr. A. Connor COVID-19 - Coronavirus, Medicaid, Medicare, Reimbursement, Telehealth.

U.S. House Passes American Rescue Plan – 15 Provisions for Healthcare Providers

In the early morning of Feb. 27, 2021, the U.S. House of Representatives narrowly passed H.R. 1319, the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021, by a 219-212 vote. Two Democrats joined with a united Republican caucus to oppose the bill. House Democratic leadership introduced and passed the American Rescue Plan...

Dr. A. Connor American Rescue Plan, COVID-19 - Coronavirus, Medicaid, Reimbursement.

American Rescue Plan Act Of 2021: Key Healthcare Provisions

On March 10, 2021, Congress finalized and passed the American Rescue Plan of 2021 (ARP), the latest COVID-19 relief package that largely tracks President Biden’s initial $1.9 trillion proposal. The ARP extends unemployment insurance benefits and provides direct $1,400 stimulus payments to qualifying Americans, but it also makes several...

Dr. A. Connor American Rescue Plan, CARES ACT, COVID-19 - Coronavirus, Legislation, Medicaid, Medicare.