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So You Want to Start a Concierge Medicine Practice? Here are Five Key Legal Considerations

With increased consolidation of traditional medical practices and declining reimbursement rates, many physicians are turning to alternative models like concierge medicine to preserve their independence. Concierge medicine...more

Maynard Nexsen

Taking the Pulse, A Health Care and Life Sciences Video Podcast | Episode 244: The Future of Independent Physician Practices with...

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On episode 244, Lynnsey and Matthew are joined by Ray Waldrup, Co-Founder and CEO of The Leaders Rheum, a national network of leading rheumatology practices. Drawing on 3 decades of experience in healthcare leadership, Ray...more

McDermott Will & Schulte

Trending in Telehealth March 2025

Trending in Telehealth highlights monthly state legislative and regulatory developments that impact the healthcare providers, telehealth and digital health companies, pharmacists, and technology companies that deliver and...more

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2025 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule: Payment and Overpayment Policies

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On December 9, 2024, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services' (CMS's) Calendar Year 2025 Physician Fee Schedule Final Rule (the Final Rule) was published in the Federal Register. The Final Rule includes noteworthy...more

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Massachusetts Enacts Telehealth Bill That Signals Further Expansion Of Telehealth Services In The Commonwealth

Massachusetts began this year by enacting comprehensive health care legislation that will have a lasting impact on the provision of telehealth within the Commonwealth. Massachusetts had previously expanded the use of...more

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Why Are We Putting Patients at Greater Risk by Holding Telemedicine Doctors to an Outdated Ordinary Standard of Care?

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Everything else in the world has changed, why not how we treat our doctors? If a doctor can only bill for a two-minute telemedicine consultation, why should that doctor be held to the ordinary standard of care? If insurance...more

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The “State” of Telehealth: Texas

As part of his 2021 of the State address, Texas Governor, Greg Abbott, introduced his intention to permanently expand telemedicine services that were made available during the COVID-19 public health emergency (the...more

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Governor Abbott Announces Agreement With Health Insurers to Continue Payment Parity for Telehealth

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On September 25, 2020, Governor Greg Abbott announced via press release that Texas’ major health insurers have agreed to continue reimbursing network healthcare providers for telehealth appointments at the same rate which...more

McAfee & Taft

A brief history of the future: Healthcare amid the pandemic

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We want to share our perspective about various legal and regulatory issues and business challenges affecting the healthcare industry from COVID-19, along with a few anticipated changes in the legal and regulatory climate. ...more

K&L Gates LLP

COVID-19: K&L Gates Triage: Telehealth Expansions During the COVID-19 Emergency - What Providers Need to Know

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In this week’s episode, Gina Bertolini, Lindsey Rogers-Seitz and Leah Richardson discuss a number of efforts undertaken by Congress and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) in recent weeks to expand the...more

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Telehealth: Massachusetts’ Proposed Act to Improve Health Care by Investing in Value

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Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker has restarted the discussion on health care cost containment in the Commonwealth with a proposed bill that contains a raft of initiatives. Foley & Lardner LLP will be addressing each of...more

Epstein Becker & Green

7 Hot Health Care Industry Sectors for Investment, Growth & Consolidation in 2020

Based on their extensive experience advising health care industry clients, Epstein Becker Green attorneys and strategic advisors from EBG Advisors are predicting the “hot” health care sectors for investment, growth, and...more

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Benesch Market Intelligence: Health Care Quarterly Report - Q3 2019

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Shepherd Premier Aims to Open 30 Small-Home Communities By 2022 - Aug 11th, 2019 via Senior Housing News. Small-home senior living provider, Shepherd Premier Senior Living, offers an alternative to traditional large-scale...more

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Legislation Re-Introduced to Expand Access to Telehealth Under Medicare

A bipartisan group of senators introduced legislation on October 30th designed to expand Medicare beneficiaries’ access to telehealth services. The bill is called the Creating Opportunities Now for Necessary and Effective...more

McDermott Will & Schulte

New Laws Expand Telehealth in California

California Governor Gavin Newsom recently signed into law two bills that expand the delivery of telehealth services in the state. In particular, the legislation: • Permits providers to prescribe medications without a...more

Foley & Lardner LLP

New Massachusetts Bills Propose Telehealth Insurance Coverage, Practice Standards

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Momentum and support continues to build for telehealth commercial coverage laws across the United States, designed to ensure that covered members of health insurance plans can enjoy the full scope of their medical benefits –...more

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New Telemedicine Act in Pennsylvania

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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

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Insurance Compliance Risks Facing Telemedicine Providers

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Telemedicine providers can sell their services in a number of ways. Consumers, self-funded health plans, and health insurance companies are all important and growing customers for many telemedicine providers. Telemedicine...more

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Three Years Later, Foley Survey Reveals Positive Prognosis for Telemedicine

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When we launched Foley’s inaugural Telemedicine and Digital Health Survey in 2014, it was apparent that health care executives weren’t ready to make telemedicine a significant focus of their business and patient strategies....more

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Vermont’s New Telemedicine Law Expands Insurance Coverage, Bans Recording

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Vermont health care providers and patients can now enjoy a revamped, and significantly improved, telehealth commercial insurance coverage law. Vermont Governor Phil Scott signed S. 50 into law on June 7, 2017, expanding...more

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“Lone Star” Joins the Rest of Nation as Texas Passes New Telemedicine Law

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On May 12, 2017, the Texas State Legislature passed SB 1107, a law expanding the use of telemedicine in the Lone Star State. The bill is now on its way to Governor Abbot’s desk where he is expected to sign it into law....more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

“May You Live in Interesting Times” – Some Healthcare Predictions for the Trump Administration’s First Year

The ancient Chinese curse – “May you live in interesting times” – certainly springs to mind these days. What does the election of Donald Trump mean for the healthcare industry, the Affordable Care Act and current healthcare...more

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Rhode Island’s New Law Requires Health Plans Cover Telemedicine Services

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Rhode Island marks the 31st state to enact a telemedicine commercial reimbursement statute. The Telemedicine Coverage Act (HB 7160B) was signed into law by Rhode Island Governor Gina Raimondo on June 28, 2016, representing a...more

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Alaska Enacts New Telemedicine Law: What Providers Should Know

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Alaska Governor Bill Walker signed SB 74 into law on June 21, 2016, expanding the use of telemedicine in the Last Frontier state. Specifically, SB 74 removes Alaska’s previous in-state presence requirements for prescribing...more

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The State of Telehealth - Policy and Reimbursement Q&A

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Foley Partner Nathaniel Lacktman, head of the firm’s telemedicine and virtual care practice, participated in a comprehensive Q&A discussing the challenges and opportunities facing the telehealth market with Healthcare...more

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