OIG recently issued a report in April 2018 titled, “CMS Paid Practitioners for Telehealth Services That Did Not Meet Medicare Requirements,” in which it claims to have found that CMS improperly paid practitioners in 31 of 100...more
On November 29, 2016, the Senate passed the Expanding Capacity for Health Outcomes Act, S. 2873 (the ECHO Act) in a 97-0 vote, which would require HHS to study and report on the use of telehealth services that connect...more