CMS issued its Final Rule for the 2025 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule in November.
Originally published in the Allegheny County Medical Society (ACMS) Bulletin - December 2024....more
Both the federal government and the Pennsylvania state government are taking steps to reform the prior authorization process. Attached is the Pennsylvania Insurance Department Press Release, issued November 3, 2022, touting...more
Attached are links to the CMS Press Release and the Trump Executive Order on Improving Price and Quality Transparency in American Healthcare to Put Patients First.
The Trump Executive Order was first issued on June 21,...more
A new Telemedicine Act is wending its way through the legislative process in Pennsylvania. Senate Bill 780 of 2017 (attached hereto as a PDF) has been unanimously passed by the Senate and referred to the House Professional...more
House Bill 706 has been introduced in the Pennsylvania House. This is a “parity” bill which does the following:
It defines telehealth in such as way as to neither mandate nor prohibit asynchronous or synchronous...more
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo signed a Bill late last week, which will take effect as of January 1, expanding telehealth coverage in New York. This law does three things which are on the leading edge of telehealth coverage....more