The Illinois Coalition to Protect Telehealth, a coalition of more than thirty Illinois healthcare providers and patient advocates, announced its support for a bill that would, among other things, establish payment parity for...more
While providers struggle to provide health care to their patients amid the coronavirus contagion concerns, recent regulatory and reimbursement changes will help ease the path to the provision of healthcare via telehealth....more
3/20/2020
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On November 1, 2018, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) finalized proposals to pay separately for a newly defined type of physicians’ service furnished using communication technology: the “virtual check-in”...more