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Medicare's Innovation Center Charts New Direction: Part 2 – Digital Health and AI

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The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation ("CMMI") is set to reshape value-based care. In the second of a three-part series highlighting this new direction, this summary is focused on CMMI's efforts regarding digital...more

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The COVID-19 Public Health Emergency Has Ended. Now What for Managed Care Plans?

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May 11, 2023 marked a milestone in the pandemic response with the expiration of the federal COVID-19 Public Health Emergency (PHE). The expiration of the PHE marks an end to the wide-reaching efforts undertaken by the federal...more

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The Status of 10 Key CMS Waivers Affecting Health Care Practitioners Following the Expiration of the COVID Public Health Emergency...

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) used its emergency waiver authority to relax many aspects of health care delivery during the federal Public Health Emergency for COVID-19 (PHE) to allow health care...more

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U.S. Federal Actions Support Continued Telehealth Services for Medicare Beneficiaries

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On March 15, 2022, President Biden signed into law the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2022 (the "Act"), extending certain Medicare telehealth reimbursement flexibilities for 151 days following the end of the declared...more

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Telehealth Policy Update

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There have been several significant developments with regard to Federal government telehealth policy. These include the recently enacted appropriations bill funding the Federal government for the balance of the fiscal year, a...more

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Telehealth: Key Takeaways From The CY2022 PFS Final Rule

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In November 2021, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (“CMS”) issued the Physician Fee Schedule Final Rule (“Final Rule”) which includes several telehealth policy updates that will go into effect in calendar year...more

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CMS Greenlights Certain Telebehavioral Health Services Beyond the Public Health Emergency and Provides Important Incentives for...

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The COVID-19 Global Pandemic compelled the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (“CMS”) to revamp its approach to regulating telehealth services and temporarily embrace the modality as a practical treatment option. In...more

Proskauer - Health Care Law Brief

Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic: Planning for Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Management in Hospitals

Although the COVID-19 pandemic is still active worldwide, health care industry leaders and regulators have already begun to think about how to implement post-pandemic changes to health care delivery based on lessons learned...more

Proskauer - Health Care Law Brief

Home Is Where the Health Care Is: New Study Shows Increase in Number of Homebound Older Adults While CMS Expands Home Health...

JAMA Internal Medicine recently published an article finding that the number of homebound adults aged 70 or older more than doubled during the last decade. In 2011, approximately 5% of adults aged 70 or older were homebound...more

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Has COVID-19 forced the telehealth genie out of the bottle?

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The public health emergency caused by the COVID-19 pandemic has caused many changes to health care laws and regulations. It is anticipated that once the public health emergency ends, many of these laws and regulations will...more

Foley Hoag LLP - Medicaid and the Law

New Developments in HIPAA and Related Issues in Health Information Law

Halloween or HIPAA: Which is Scarier? HIPAA and the Pandemic - Telehealth: - On Friday, March 20, 2020, OCR announced it will “exercise its enforcement discretion and will not impose penalties for noncompliance with...more

Akerman LLP - Health Law Rx

Telehealth Physical Examinations: Turn on your camera and show me your “rash.”

Physician offices have seen a dramatic increase in telehealth visits during the COVID-19 pandemic. This development has raised questions regarding the appropriate standard of care when performing a telehealth examination, in...more

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CMS Announces New Telehealth Services Covered by Medicare and Provides States with Medicaid and CHIP Telehealth Expansion...

On October 14, 2020, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) expanded the list of telehealth services covered by Medicare during the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency. CMS also announced it would be providing...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

Morgan Lewis - Health Law Scan

Tele-Tuesday: Executive Order Signals Increased Support for Telehealth Expansion

US President Donald Trump issued an executive order on August 3 that aims to expand telehealth access to Medicare beneficiaries beyond the coronavirus (COVID-19) public health emergency (PHE) period. ...more

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Telehealth Benefits for Medicare Beneficiaries During COVID-19 Outbreak

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The White House announced expanded Medicare telehealth coverage that will enable a wider range of health care services without a patient appearing at a health care facility in person. Medicare will now temporarily pay...more

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Federal Regulatory Developments Brewing in Telehealth

Two federal agencies – the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (“CMS”) and the Federal Communications Commission (“FCC”) – announced separate initiatives last week that stand to increase patient access to telehealth...more

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