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Post-Pandemic Access to Telehealth: Highlights of the CMS 2022 Physician Fee Schedule Final Rule

Last week, CMS announced its final Physician Fee Schedule Payment Policies (the “Final Rule”), which will become effective January 1, 2022. The Final Rule included several updates to Medicare coverage of telehealth services,...more

11/12/2021 / Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) , Consolidated Appropriations Act (CAA) , Coronavirus/COVID-19 , Final Rules , Health Care Providers , Medicare , Physician Fee Schedule , Physicians , Public Health Emergency , Telehealth

Telehealth Update: Extension of the Public Health Emergency, OIG Workplan Updates, and the Protecting Access to Post-COVID 19...

As we’ve discussed in previous posts, since the beginning of the pandemic, telehealth providers have seen a dramatic increase in demand for their services along with a number of temporary regulatory measures aimed at...more

2/4/2021 / Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) , Coronavirus/COVID-19 , Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) , Health Care Providers , Medicare , Public Health Emergency , Telehealth , Telemedicine

Telehealth Update: CMS Proposed CY 2021 Payment Policies, Extension of the Public Health Emergency, Increasing Access after...

On August 4, CMS posted a proposed rule on CY 2021 Payment Policies, which included important updates about the expansion of Medicare covered telehealth services due to the COVID-19 pandemic. This follows on the heels of...more

8/6/2020 / Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) , Coronavirus/COVID-19 , Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) , Health Care Providers , Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) , Medicare , OCR , Public Health Emergency , Relief Measures , Telehealth , Telemedicine , Waivers

Senate HELP Committee Signals Support for Permanently Expanding Telehealth Access

Earlier this month, we wrote about what the future of telehealth might look like in a post-COVID-19 world. In that post, we referenced comments made by CMS Administrator Seema Verma, in which she voiced her support for...more

6/25/2020 / Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) , Coronavirus/COVID-19 , Health Care Providers , Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) , Medicare , Public Health , Public Health Emergency , State and Local Government , Telehealth , Telemedicine

CMS Administrator Verma Calls for Permanent Expansion of Telehealth Access after COVID-19. Will States Follow Suit?

During a live virtual event yesterday with STAT News, CMS Administrator Seema Verma expressed support for permanently expanding access to telehealth services after the COVID-19 public health emergency resolves. As we...more

6/11/2020 / 1135 Waivers , CARES Act , Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) , Coronavirus/COVID-19 , Governor Baker , Health Care Providers , IRS , Professional License , Public Health Emergency , Regulatory Agenda , Telehealth , Telemedicine

Telehealth Reimbursement Continues to Expand for Medicare and Medicaid

Last week, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced additional waivers of limitations on Medicare reimbursement of telehealth services and updated its summary of COVID-19 blanket waivers. We’ve...more

5/11/2020 / Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) , Coronavirus/COVID-19 , Health Care Providers , Medicaid , Medicare , Physician Medicare Reimbursements , Telehealth , Telemedicine

Barriers to Telehealth Continue to Fall After CARES Act and Other Federal and State Actions

As we’ve previously discussed on the blog, telehealth is playing a critical role in delivering care during the COVID-19 pandemic. Both Congress and states continue to take action to expand the use and reimbursement of...more

4/9/2020 / CARES Act , Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) , Coronavirus/COVID-19 , Medicare , Telehealth , Telemedicine

FCC Chairman Proposes Plan to Implement CARES Act Funding for Telehealth Program

On Monday, the Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), Ajit Pai, circulated a plan to his fellow Commissioners detailing how the $200 million the agency will receive via the CARES Act should be deployed for a...more

4/1/2020 / Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) , Coronavirus/COVID-19 , Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) , Emergency Response , FCC , Health Care Providers , Health Insurance , Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) , Interstate Telecommunications Service Providers (ITSP) , Medicare , OCR , Public Health , Relief Measures , Telehealth , Telemedicine , Waivers

Telehealth Gets a Boost in Proposed Physician Fee Schedule

Some very good news for the telehealth community can be found amidst the more than 1,400 pages of the proposed Medicare Physician Fee Schedule for 2019 (“Proposed Rule”) issued by CMS yesterday. Finally, CMS acknowledges just...more

7/16/2018 / Bi-Partison Balanced Budget Act (BBA) , Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) , Medicare , Physician Fee Schedule , Proposed Rules , Public Comment , Telehealth , Telemedicine

MACRA’s Advancement of EHR Interoperability and Telehealth

This is the fourth and final post in our series on the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA). Pub.L. No. 114-10. We’ve previously covered the repeal of the Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR) in our April 20th post,...more

4/27/2015 / Affordable Care Act , Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) , Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) , EHR , Electronic Health Record Incentives , Electronic Medical Records , GAO , Health Care Providers , Healthcare , HITECH Act , Meaningful Use , Medicaid , Medicare , Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization (MACRA) , Medicare Part B , PQRS , Telehealth , Telemedicine

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