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Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP

Proposed Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Would Extend Telehealth Flexibilities and Add New Coverage

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released its annual proposed rule updating the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (MPFS) for calendar year (CY) 2025....more

McDermott Will & Emery

Trending in Telehealth: May 28 – June 3, 2024

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Trending in Telehealth highlights state legislative and regulatory developments that impact the healthcare providers, telehealth and digital health companies, pharmacists and technology companies that deliver and facilitate...more

Holland & Knight LLP

Holland & Knight Health Dose: January 30, 2024

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Holland & Knight Health Dose is an in-depth weekly dose of legislative and regulatory insights to keep stakeholders abreast of happenings in Washington, D.C., impacting the health sector....more

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2024 Predictions: Unveiling the future of healthcare mergers and acquisitions

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Today, a tale of two markets are seen in healthcare mergers and acquisition (M&A): the present (as reflected in the data about declining dealmaking) and the future (reflected in the increasingly positive outlook by...more

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REGS & TURKEY LEGS: The Regs We’re Thankful For

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It’s Thanksgiving week, so instead of eating eggs with your regs, you should sit back, relax and reflect on the regs you are thankful for as you eat your turkey legs (or whatever you enjoy on Thanksgiving). Many of the...more

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Trending in Telehealth: July 11 – 17, 2023

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Trending in Telehealth is a new series from the McDermott digital health team in which we highlight state legislative and regulatory developments that impact the healthcare providers, telehealth and digital health companies,...more

Fenwick & West Life Sciences Group

A Complex Regulatory Landscape Emerges for Telemedicine

Every year, Rock Health surveys the digital health landscape, noting the changing trends related to adoption by providers, patients and payers of these innovative new technologies....more

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McDermott Health 2023 Annual Report - Digital Health: 2022 Year in Review

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Digital health is one of the fast-growing segments of the healthcare market, with patients, clinicians and regulators increasingly aligned behind the opportunities that digitization presents. Over the last three years,...more

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

New Reimbursement Rules Will Likely Impact Digital Health and Telemedicine

On November 1, 2022, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued the 2023 Physician Fee Schedule (PFS) Final Rule. CMS publishes a PFS annually so as to make changes in federal healthcare reimbursement and...more

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CMS Continues to Modernize by Expanding Reimbursement for Digital Health Services

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The COVID-19 Public Health Emergency (“PHE”) fundamentally changed the healthcare industry, forcing healthcare providers and patients onto their computers and phones to enable continuation of care when patients were mandated...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

Enforcement and Health Care Technology: Navigating Fraud and Abuse Issues in Emerging Digital Health Care Areas

Like many industries, the health care industry has become increasingly digitized and reliant on technology. Technology advancements also have had a major effect on enforcement. In his comments to the Federal Bar Association...more

Jones Day

Vital Signs: Digital Health Law Update | Summer 2021

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NOTE FROM THE EDITORS - The "dog days of summer" certainly provide a welcome, if brief, break in the extremely rapid pace of statutory, regulatory, and various other policy and industry efforts applicable to digital health....more

Foley & Lardner LLP

Top 5 Telehealth Law Predictions for 2021

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With 2020 officially behind us, what does 2021 have in store for telemedicine and digital health policy? A year ago, our team predicted 2020 would bring “notable expansions in Medicare and Medicaid coverage” and “the...more

Husch Blackwell LLP

CMS Permanently Expands Telehealth As Far As Congress Has Allowed

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The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) expanded Medicare reimbursement for telehealth within the annual Physician Fee Schedule (PFS) final rule for 2021. During the pandemic Public Health Emergency (PHE), CMS has...more

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Remote Patient Monitoring: Medicare Proposes Two Major Expansions

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Last week, CMS proposed two significant changes to remote patient monitoring (RPM) services reimbursed under the Medicare program. The changes, part of the proposed 2020 Physician Fee Schedule, have been hotly anticipated by...more

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Dash to Digital Health? How the Regulatory Sprint to Coordinated Care Could Expand Access to Care

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Certain long-standing laws, such as the civil monetary penalty provision prohibiting patient inducements, have hampered providers’ ability to fully leverage remote patient monitoring and other telehealth tools. Many...more

Morgan Lewis

Tele-Tuesday: Top Five Telehealth Legal Issues for Summer 2019

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Summer is almost upon us. And in between the BBQs, pool parties, and baseball games, you might be trying to understand the risks involved in offering healthcare services through telehealth. Whether you're an independent...more

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Tele-Tuesday: A Closer Look at the Medicare Advantage Telehealth Flex Rule

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CMS finalized a rule last month that will significantly expand access to telehealth services for patients in Medicare Advantage plans. Implementing provisions of the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2018 (BiBA), the new rule will...more

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Virginia Lawmakers Pass Bill Requiring Insurance Coverage for Remote Patient Monitoring

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Virginia lawmakers have taken new steps to expand the use of remote patient monitoring among the State’s residents, with both the House and Senate unanimously passing bipartisan legislation ensuring that commercial health...more

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2018 Digital Health Year in Review: Focus on Care Coordination and Reimbursement

In 2018, even more than in recent years, federal lawmakers and regulators continued the push toward modernizing the existing legal framework to support and encourage digital health adoption in the context of care coordination...more

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Round Two: Significant Telehealth Expansion Re-Proposed in Bipartisan Senate Bill

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On May 3, 2017, the Creating Opportunities Now for Necessary and Effective Care Technologies for Health Act of 2017 (S. 1016) (CONNECT Act of 2017) was reintroduced by the same six senators who had initially introduced the...more

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21st Century Cures: A Closer Look

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On December 7, 2016, the US Congress enacted the 21st Century Cures Act, substantial legislation intended to accelerate “discovery, development and delivery” of medical therapies by encouraging biomedical research investment,...more

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Alert: Key Regulatory Considerations for Digital Health Companies

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Digital health is a growing field that promises improved patient education, wellness, engagement, access to care, and outcomes, among other things. However, with these new technologies come unique regulatory concerns that...more

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