Texas may be among the first of many states to enact laws that encourage providers to continue electronically communicating with and monitoring their patients after COVID-19 emergency regulations and governors’ orders expire....more
On December 16, 2020, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Office for Civil Rights (OCR), announced that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid (CMS) will disallow $200 million in federal Medi-Cal funding next...more
On March 17, 2020, acting under the Coronavirus Preparedness And Response Supplemental Appropriations Act (the “Act”) and section 1135(b) of the Social Security Act, the Secretary waived certain telehealth reimbursement...more
Medi-Cal and other California health care providers will soon be required to change their document retention policies and practices for services rendered under programs administered by California’s Department of Health Care...more