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Final CY 2024 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Extends Many Telehealth Flexibilities Through 2024

Changes to the Medicare Telehealth Services List Structure and Updates Process - Prior to the COVID-19 public health emergency (PHE), the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) evaluated changes to the Medicare...more

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Top 5 Rules for Medicare 2024 Remote Patient Monitoring and Remote Therapeutic Monitoring: What Companies Need to Know

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On November 2, 2023, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) finalized new policies related to remote physiologic monitoring (RPM) and remote therapeutic monitoring (RTM) services reimbursed under the Medicare...more

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

Illinois passed S.B. 1913, which requires Medicaid FFS and Medicaid managed care plans to provide coverage of mental health services, substance use disorder treatment, and ‘behavioral telehealth services’. Requires Medicaid...more

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The Expiration of the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency: Part II – Impact on the Provision of Medical Services via Telehealth

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As announced by the White House on January 30, 2023, the public health emergency (PHE) is set to end on May 11, 2023. The end of the PHE also brings an end to several flexibilities that were implemented that impact telehealth...more

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FCC to Consider Amending Rural Health Care Program Rules and Initiating Further Rulemaking

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At its January 26 open meeting, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) will consider an order and further notice of proposed rulemaking (FNPRM) to amend the rules of the Rural Health Care Program, which includes the...more

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2022 Distance Learning and Telemedicine Grant Open for Hospitals and Education Systems

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An annual grant funding opportunity has opened for both for-profit and nonprofit rural hospitals and education systems in purchasing telecommunication equipment to further advance distance learning and telemedicine (DLT)....more

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FCC Continues Rate Waiver for Rural Health Care Facilities

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The Federal Communications Commission (“FCC”) has again extended a waiver of its previously issued rules relating to the establishment of urban and rural rates for health care and telecommunication service providers seeking...more

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Executive Summary: Tracking Telehealth Changes State-by-State in Response to COVID-19 - August 2021

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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Is it Time to Permanently Incorporate Telehealth Into Our Health Care Delivery System?

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There is no question that during the pandemic and duration of the public health emergency, telehealth rose to the occasion demonstrating its tremendous benefits to the health care industry and will likely remain an integral...more

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Telehealth: New Executive Order and CY2021 Proposed Regulatory Changes

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On August 3, 2020, President Trump issued an Executive Order seeking to improve care provided to individuals in rural communities by increasing access to care through telehealth....more

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President Trump Issues Telehealth Executive Order and Proposed Regulatory Changes

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On August 3, 2020, President Trump issued an Executive Order seeking to improve care provided to individuals in rural communities by increasing access to care through telehealth....more

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New Executive Order and CY 2021 Physician Fee Schedule Proposed Rule Offer Permanent Expansion of Medicare Telehealth Services,...

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On August 3, 2020, President Trump signed the “Executive Order on Improving Rural Health and Telehealth Access” (the Executive Order). The Executive Order directed the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services...more

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COVID-19 Highlights Urgent Need to Tackle Inequities in Digital Access amid Surge in Telehealth Use

The use of telehealth technology and services has increased by record levels in 2020, driven by the realities of the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent telehealth policy flexibilities temporarily implemented by federal, state...more

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COVID-19: Expansion of Telemedicine Services and Rural Health Clinics

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On March 17, 2020, in response to the COVID-19 emergency, Medicare announced that it will reimburse physicians and other certain healthcare providers for telehealth service visits at the same amount as in-person visits...more

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Grassley Finance Committee Agenda Highlights Oversight

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Senator Charles "Chuck" Grassley, Chairman of the Senate Finance committee which has jurisdiction over Medicare and Medicaid as well as taxation and other revenue measures, has less than 18 months left in his tenure as...more

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Telehealth Continues To Gain Traction – Now Via FCC Proposed Funding

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The growth of telehealth services took a significant step forward with the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) announcement on July 10, 2019, of a three-year Connected Care Pilot Program (Pilot). The Notice of Proposed...more

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FCC Releases Order to Relieve Telecommunications Funding Crisis for Rural Healthcare Providers

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On June 25, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) took steps to raise the annual funding cap for the Universal Service Fund’s Rural Health Care (RHC) Program, which provides funds to rural, public and non-profit...more

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The FCC to Propose Major Changes to Its Rural Health Care Funding Programs

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is launching a major revision to its Rural Health Care (“RHC”) subsidy programs. These revisions would address two main issues, the level of funding and ways to make the programs...more

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Congress Wows With Medicare Telehealth Parity Act of 2015, But Will It Succeed?

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Rep. Mike Thompson (D-CA) and co-sponsors Rep. Gregg Harper (R-MS), Rep. Diane Black (R-TN), and Rep. Peter Welch (D-VT) announced, on July 7, 2015, the introduction of the Medicare Telehealth Parity Act of 2015,...more

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Florida, No Grants For You!

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In November 2014, the federal government’s Distance Learning and Telemedicine (DLT) program awarded over $10 million in grants to support telemedicine and rural health research. The list of 65 DLT grant recipients included...more

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Telemedicine and Mobile Health Innovations Amid Increasing Regulatory Oversight

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The growing mobile health market is rapidly transforming health care delivery. More than 80 percent of physicians use mobile technology to provide patient care, and more than 25 percent of commercially insured patients use...more

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