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Medicare FFS Regs: Thrills and Chills Under the Trump and Biden Administrations

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Happy Halloween! In the health policy world, there are two things on everyone’s mind this spooky season: the upcoming election and the major calendar year (CY) 2025 Medicare fee-for-service (FFS) final regs that should be...more

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Trending in Telehealth: October 14 – 21, 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

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McDermott+ Check-Up: September 27, 2024

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Congress Votes on CR, Health-Related Legislation. After reaching a deal over the weekend, both chambers passed a CR to avoid a government shutdown and fund the federal government through December 20, 2024. This tees up a push...more

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Trending in Telehealth: August 13 – 26, 2024

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

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Trending in Telehealth: July 23 – 29, 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

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Healthcare Preview for the Week of: May 13, 2024

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Both chambers of Congress are out of session today and return for the rest of the week. Most healthcare priorities remain out of the congressional spotlight this week, but telehealth is still top of mind. As we...more

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Trending in Telehealth: February 12 – February 26, 2024

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

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Trending in Telehealth: January 4 – 15, 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

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McDermottPlus Check-Up: October 6, 2023

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THIS WEEK’S DOSE - Uncharted Territory in the House: The House voted to remove Rep. McCarthy (R-CA) as Speaker of the House, then recessed until at least October 11, when the House is slated to reconvene to elect a new...more

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Executive Summary: Tracking Telehealth Changes State-by-State in Response to COVID-19 - October 2023

S. 2880: A bill to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to expand the scope of practitioners eligible for payment for telehealth services under the Medicare program, and for other purposes....more

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Trending in Telehealth: September 19 – 25, 2023

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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

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Benesch DSO Intelligence Quarterly Report: Q2 2023

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Younger Dentists are Affiliating with DSOs at Higher Rates in the U.S. Financial constraints, stronger need for work/life balance is driving this trend - The ADA Health Policy Institute (HPI) released data in May that...more

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Idaho's New Virtual Care [Telehealth] Access Act

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Idaho’s new Virtual Care Access Act (the “Act”) amends Idaho’s existing law to make it easier to render telehealth in Idaho effective July 1, 2023. The requirements of the new Act are summarized below....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

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Executive Summary: Tracking Telehealth Changes State-by-State in Response to COVID-19 - May 2022

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

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Telehealth Policies in the Omnibus FY 2022 Spending Bill

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

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Congress Grants Five Month Extension for Telehealth Flexibilities

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On Tuesday, March 16, 2022, President Biden signed into law H.R. 2471, the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2022 (“2022 CAA”). This new law includes several provisions that extend the Medicare telehealth waivers and...more

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2020 Virginia Special Session Report

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The 2020 Special Session began on Tuesday, Aug. 18, to address the forecasted budget shortfall, impacts directly associated with COVID-19, and the ongoing calls for social and criminal justice reforms. At the start of the...more

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New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy Signs Emergency Legislation into Law Providing Greater Access to Healthcare During the COVID-19...

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On March 19, 2020, Governor Phil Murphy signed two bills into law (A-3860 and A-3862), which expand patient access to telemedicine and telehealth services by healthcare practitioners. Out-of-state healthcare practitioners can...more

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COVID-19 – New York Expands Telehealth Utilization

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We hope that everyone is staying safe during the COVID-19 crisis. State health departments are, of course, doing what they can to facilitate management of transmission of COVID-19 by healthcare providers. ...more

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Client Alert: Florida E-Prescribing Requirements

Electronic prescribing (“e-prescribing”) allows health care providers to submit prescriptions to a pharmacy electronically, using a secure software system. E-prescribing increases patient safety, security, and efficiency...more

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New Laws Expand Telehealth in California

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California Governor Gavin Newsom recently signed into law two bills that expand the delivery of telehealth services in the state. In particular, the legislation: • Permits providers to prescribe medications without a...more

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Paper Prescription Pads to go the Way of the Horse and Buggy as Prescribers Will Soon Be Required to Electronically Transmit...

Governor Desantis recently signed House Bill 831, which will require certain healthcare practitioners to “electronically transmit prescriptions”. Unfortunately, the legislature left this term undefined, creating some...more

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The VA Mission Act: Expanding Access to the VA Telemedicine System

On June 6, 2018, President Trump signed the “John S. McCain III, Daniel K. Akaka, and Samuel R. Johnson VA Maintaining Internal Systems and Strengthening Integrated Networks Act” a.k.a. the VA MISSION Act of 2018 (“VAMA”)...more

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Expect New DEA Regulations: Special Registration for Telemedicine

On October 24, 2018, the President signed the sweeping, opioid-focused SUPPORT for Patients and Communities Act (Pub. L. 115-271, the “Act”) into law. Title III, Chapter 4 of the Act, titled the Special Registration for...more

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