As the COVID-19 pandemic continues across the United States, states, payers, and providers are looking for ways to expand access to telehealth services. Telehealth is an essential tool in ensuring patients are able to access...more
1/30/2023
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As the COVID-19 pandemic continues across the United States, states, payers, and providers are looking for ways to expand access to telehealth services. Telehealth is an essential tool in ensuring patients are able to access...more
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues across the United States, states, payers, and providers are looking for ways to expand access to telehealth services. Telehealth is an essential tool in ensuring patients are able to access...more
11/21/2022
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Perspectives on Life Sciences Webinar Series: Explore Key Life Sciences Issues at the Intersection of Law, Policy & Business Strategy -
The COVID-19 pandemic has entrenched telehealth into the fabric of modern health care...more
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues across the United States, states, payers, and providers are looking for ways to expand access to telehealth services. Telehealth is an essential tool in ensuring patients are able to access...more
11/1/2022
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Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) ,
Health Care Providers ,
Medicaid ,
Medicare ,
OIG ,
Popular ,
Telehealth ,
Telemedicine
In the aftermath of the Dobbs v. Jackson Supreme Court decision, there is ongoing discussion about the role that medication abortion—particularly tele-medication abortion (teleMAB)— will play in connecting women to abortion...more
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues across the United States, states, payers, and providers are looking for ways to expand access to telehealth services. Telehealth is an essential tool in ensuring patients are able to access...more
The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic spurred a drastic increase in telehealth utilization across the country, which meaningfully changed the way providers deliver care and illuminated novel state telehealth policy design...more
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues across the United States, states, payers, and providers are looking for ways to expand access to telehealth services. Telehealth is an essential tool in ensuring patients are able to access...more
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues across the United States, states, payers, and providers are looking for ways to expand access to telehealth services. Telehealth is an essential tool in ensuring patients are able to access...more
5/23/2022
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Healthcare Reform ,
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Telemedicine
The United States continues to face a behavioral health crisis that has worsened due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In 2021, nearly 40% of adults reported symptoms of depression or anxiety, an increase from 10% in 2019....more
5/5/2022
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Health Care Providers ,
Health Insurance ,
Healthcare ,
Healthcare Reform ,
Medical Reimbursement ,
Medicare ,
Mental Health ,
Patient Access ,
Physician Fee Schedule ,
Public Health Emergency ,
Telehealth ,
Telemedicine
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues across the United States, states, payers, and providers are looking for ways to expand access to telehealth services. Telehealth is an essential tool in ensuring patients are able to access...more
4/25/2022
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Health Insurance ,
Healthcare ,
Healthcare Reform ,
Medicaid ,
Medical Reimbursement ,
Medicare ,
Patient Access ,
Rate Parity Agreement ,
Regulatory Agenda ,
Telehealth ,
Telemedicine
The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO), as directed by a provision in the CARES Act, published a report that examined the use of telehealth among Medicaid beneficiaries before and during the COVID-19 pandemic across...more
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues across the United States, states, payers, and providers are looking for ways to expand access to telehealth services. Telehealth is an essential tool in ensuring patients are able to access...more
4/11/2022
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Coronavirus/COVID-19 ,
Healthcare Reform ,
Infectious Diseases ,
New Regulations ,
Patient Access ,
Proposed Legislation ,
Regulatory Agenda ,
State of Emergency ,
Telehealth ,
Telemedicine
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues across the United States, states, payers, and providers are looking for ways to expand access to telehealth servic es. Telehealth is an essential tool in ensuring patients are able to access...more
3/25/2022
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Healthcare Reform ,
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Patient Access ,
Pending Legislation ,
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Rate Parity Agreement ,
Regulatory Agenda ,
Telehealth ,
Telemedicine
After weeks of negotiations and months of temporary stopgap funding bills since the federal fiscal year started in October 2021, on Tuesday the President signed the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2022, an omnibus funding...more
3/17/2022
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Healthcare ,
Healthcare Reform ,
Medical Reimbursement ,
Medicare ,
New Legislation ,
Patient Access ,
Public Health Emergency ,
Relief Measures ,
Rural Health Care Program ,
Telehealth ,
Telemedicine
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues across the United States, states, payers, and providers are looking for ways to expand access to telehealth servic es. Telehealth is an essential tool in ensuring patients are able to access...more
3/14/2022
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Coronavirus/COVID-19 ,
Health Care Providers ,
Healthcare ,
Healthcare Reform ,
Infectious Diseases ,
Medicaid ,
Medicare ,
Patient Access ,
State of Emergency ,
Telehealth ,
Telemedicine
Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, states typically required providers to be licensed in the state(s) where they were practicing. In response to the pandemic, nearly all states provided temporary waivers of these requirements....more
3/11/2022
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Health Care Providers ,
Healthcare ,
Healthcare Reform ,
Infectious Diseases ,
Licensing Rules ,
Patient Access ,
Proposed Legislation ,
Public Health Emergency ,
Regulatory Agenda ,
Telehealth ,
Telemedicine
During the COVID-19 pandemic, HHS has allowed numerous telehealth flexibilities across Medicare and Medicaid, making it possible for patients to receive care remotely from their homes and enabling states, managed care...more
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues across the United States, states, payers, and providers are looking for ways to expand access to telehealth servic es. Telehealth is an essential tool in ensuring patients are able to access...more
2/14/2022
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Health Care Providers ,
Health Insurance ,
Healthcare ,
Healthcare Reform ,
Infectious Diseases ,
Medicaid ,
Medicare ,
Patient Access ,
Popular ,
Telehealth ,
Telemedicine
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues across the United States, states, payers, and providers are looking for ways to expand access to telehealth servic es. Telehealth is an essential tool in ensuring patients are able to access...more
1/31/2022
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Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) ,
Health Care Providers ,
Health Insurance ,
Healthcare Fraud ,
Healthcare Reform ,
Infectious Diseases ,
Medicaid ,
Medicare ,
Patient Access ,
Popular ,
Rate Parity Agreement ,
Telehealth ,
Telemedicine
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues across the United States, states, payers, and providers are looking for ways to expand access to telehealth servic es. Telehealth is an essential tool in ensuring patients are able to access...more
12/3/2021
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Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) ,
Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) ,
Coronavirus/COVID-19 ,
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) ,
FCC ,
Health Care Providers ,
Healthcare ,
Healthcare Reform ,
Infectious Diseases ,
Patient Access ,
Physician Fee Schedule ,
Rural Health Care Program ,
Telehealth ,
Telemedicine ,
Underserved Locations
The Big Picture -
On November 2, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released Medicare Program; CY 2022 Payment Policies under the Physician Fee Schedule and Other Changes to Part B Payment Policies;...more
11/16/2021
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Final Rules ,
FQHC ,
Health Care Providers ,
Healthcare ,
Healthcare Facilities ,
Healthcare Reform ,
Medicare ,
Mental Health ,
Physician Fee Schedule ,
Physicians ,
Reimbursements ,
Rural Health Care Program ,
Telehealth ,
Telemedicine
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues across the United States, states, payers, and providers are looking for ways to expand access to telehealth services. Telehealth is an essential tool in ensuring patients are able to access...more
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues across the United States, states, payers, and providers are looking for ways to expand access to telehealth services. Telehealth is an essential tool in ensuring patients are able to access...more