In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the U.S. Congress, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), many state legislatures and state Medicaid programs, and private payers have implemented significant changes to...more
On Monday, March 16, 2020, Florida’s Surgeon General issued a rare Emergency Order (the Order) that allows certain out-of-state health care professionals to temporarily provide telehealth services to persons in Florida in...more
3/18/2020
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From mobile apps for monitoring medications to virtual appointments with specialists, telehealth services are creating new levels of convenience for providers and patients. But as companies digitize more pieces of the health...more
Through several recently published rules, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is making it possible for Medicare beneficiaries to have greater access to health care services provided remotely through telehealth...more
On Monday, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of the Inspector General (OIG) published a wide-ranging request for information (RFI) seeking ideas on how it might add or modify safe harbors to the...more
8/29/2018
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Stark Law
The recently enacted Bipartisan Budget Act of 2018 expands Medicare’s coverage for telehealth services in several ways. Inclusion of these provisions, which had been part of a Senate bill called the CHRONIC Care Act, is...more
On 3 April 2017, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released its final Medicare Advantage (MA) and Part D Rate Announcement and Call Letter (Call Letter) for calendar year 2018. The Call Letter is part of...more