The American Telemedicine Association (ATA) brought together change-makers and front-line providers from across the telehealth industry for its annual conference, ATA Nexus 2024, on May 5-7, 2024, in Phoenix, Arizona. Below...more
The United Nations unanimously adopts a landmark resolution mapping a path for international cooperation on AI, and the Financial Stability Oversight Council announces a two-day conference exploring the benefits and risks of...more
Due to convenience and effectiveness, patients are increasingly seeking care via telehealth, including for conditions that require treatment with medication. During the pandemic, patients gained access to telehealth for...more
With Congress again delaying full resolution of fiscal year 2024 (FY24) federal spending legislation, now until at least early March, health care stakeholders are once again left waiting to resolve several priority issues. ...more
The American Telemedicine Association (ATA) brought key telehealth stakeholders and policymakers together for the annual ATA EDGE policy conference on December 13-15, 2023, in Washington, D.C. Since 2020, patients and...more
As Congress returns and summer turns to fall, the federal health care legislative agenda remains crowded. While much near-term energy is focused on September 30 and averting a shutdown of the federal government before the...more
The annual Medicare physician payment rule is upon us, proposed July 13, 2023, for calendar year (CY) 2024 and open for public comment through September 11. Each year, the couple-of-thousand-page rule makes modifications to...more
As congressional leaders focus on passing an agreement negotiated over the weekend by the Biden administration and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy that would increase the debt limit through early 2025 and prevent a potential...more
On May 9th, 2023, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) extended the telemedicine flexibilities that allowed the remote prescribing of controlled...more
In late December, Congress passed and President Biden signed into law a $1.7 trillion year-end omnibus spending bill to fund the federal government through FY2023. This alert summarizes the notable health policies and...more
Republicans are in line to regain control of the House of Representatives, although with a narrower margin than predicted. As of Wednesday (Nov. 9) evening, Republicans are just over 200 votes in the House, needing 218 to...more
A study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and the National Institute on Drug Abuse suggests that telehealth expansions instated during the COVID-19 public health...more
With President Biden signing the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) into law on August 16, the next big question is what the last third of 2022 will bring. Enacting the IRA takes the “will it or won’t it happen” issue of...more
As the 117th Congress moves into its second legislative session, there is no shortage of health care policy issues dotting the landscape. The COVID-19 pandemic, legislative gridlock and a 2021 that was largely locked down by...more
Once an innovative outlier in the world of health and life sciences, telemedicine has exponentially gained ground in the current landscape shaped by COVID-19 restrictions. Ann Mond Johnson — CEO of the American Telemedicine...more
Faegre Drinker professionals Megan Herber, Sarah-Lloyd Stevenson and Libby Baney provide ongoing support to the American Telemedicine Association’s (ATA) policy work.
This week, the comment period closed for the calendar...more
Telehealth has emerged as a crucial lifeline during the COVID-19 public health emergency, mitigating both the spread of disease by infected individuals and the risk of becoming infected for healthy patients. Recognizing this,...more
Social distancing measures during the COVID-19 pandemic have profoundly impacted the way health care services are delivered. In order to reduce risk to both health care providers and to patients, as many services as possible...more
The $2 trillion Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act, signed into law on March 27, 2020, contains significant relief to assist health care providers faced with the double burden of an onslaught of...more
Following days of protracted negotiations, Congress is heading toward enacting a $2 trillion measure to respond to the coronavirus pandemic. Anticipated to clear the House of Representatives on Friday and be promptly signed...more
March 17, 2020, will be a day to remember in the history of telehealth in the U.S. Thanks to a slew of federal policy changes, it is now easier for providers to offer telehealth, more people can access telehealth services,...more
On February 5, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) proposed several interesting tweaks to the Medicare Advantage (MA) and Medicare Part D programs through an 895-page proposed regulation, Contract Year 2021...more
This week, a bipartisan group of U.S. senators introduced the long-awaited updated version of the CONNECT for Health Act, a bill that is likely to be the most comprehensive bipartisan telehealth reform package to be...more
The results of the midterm elections will bring about a significant change to the federal health care policy landscape in 2019.
Democratic control of the House of Representatives will effectively end any legislative...more