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Healthcare stakeholders call for hospital-at-home waiver permanency

March 13, 2024 - More than 65 healthcare organizations have signed a letter urging Congress to extend the Acute Hospital Care at Home waiver program for at least five years beyond 2024. The letter sent to Congressional leaders on March 11 highlighted the critical role the waiver program played in enabling hospitals and health systems nationwide to implement the...


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US House Reps Introduce Bill to Expand Virtual Specialty Care Access

by Anuja Vaidya

A bipartisan group of United States House representatives has introduced legislation to assess the feasibility and efficacy of a virtual specialty network for Medicare and Medicaid...

Few Deaths, Complications Among CMS Hospital-at-Home Waiver Patients

by Anuja Vaidya

Patients receiving at-home hospital care under the Acute Hospital Care at Home waiver experienced a low mortality rate and minimal complications resulting in admission to brick-and-mortar hospitals,...

CMS: Hospitals Can Continue to Bill for Remote Outpatient Therapies

by Anuja Vaidya

In a Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) document, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) stated that hospitals could continue to bill for various outpatient therapies delivered via remote...

How This Early Adopter Leverages, Bills for Remote Therapeutic Monitoring

by Anuja Vaidya

Amid the staggering rise of virtual care during the COVID-19 pandemic, federal agencies were tasked with classifying these new care modalities to ensure adequate reimbursement. In its 2022 Physician Fee Schedule, the Centers for Medicare...

CMS Establishes Reimbursement Pathway for Virtual Reality Program

by Anuja Vaidya

For the first time, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has established a unique Healthcare Common Procedure Coding System (HCPCS) Level II code for a virtual reality program. The...

18 Health Systems Collaborate to Develop Hospital-at-Home Tools

by Mark Melchionna

Eighteen health systems participated in the first phase of the Home Hospital Early Adopters Accelerator, a program created by Adriadne Labs in collaboration with CaroNova to help providers develop home...

New Senate Bill Aims to Extend Medicare Telehealth Waivers By 2 Years

by Anuja Vaidya

A new piece of bipartisan legislation has been introduced in the US Senate that aims to extend access to telehealth for Medicare beneficiaries after the COVID-19 pandemic has ended. Dubbed the...

NJ Health System Launches Hospital-at-Home Program

by Anuja Vaidya

Hackensack Meridian Health has established a hospital-at-home program at JFK University Medical Center in Edison, New Jersey. The program will enable the hospital to provide acute care for Medicare...

Doctors Outside US Cannot Bill Medicare for Telehealth, Court Confirms   

by Anuja Vaidya

A telehealth company's attempt to strike down a decision stating that virtual care physicians who are outside of the U.S. are not eligible for Medicare reimbursement was dismissed by a federal...

Telehealth Use Among Medicare Patients Skyrocketed 63-Fold Last Year

by Anuja Vaidya

In one year, telehealth usage by Medicare fee-for-service (FFS) beneficiaries increased 63-fold — from approximately 840,000 virtual visits in 2019 to nearly 52.7 million in 2020, according to a...

Medicare Patients in Metro Areas More Likely to Report Telehealth Use

by Anuja Vaidya

Medicare beneficiaries living in metropolitan areas were more likely to report that they used telehealth services, a new study revealed. Published in the Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice,...

Jefferson Health, BAYADA to Establish Home Health Joint Venture

by Anuja Vaidya

Jefferson Health is partnering with BAYADA Home Health Care to launch a joint venture focused on providing care in patients' homes. Called Jefferson Health at Home, the joint venture will leverage...

ATA Asks the Biden Administration For Assurances on Telehealth Coverage

by Eric Wicklund

Worried that Congress is too busy to take on long-term telehealth policy, telehealth advocates are calling on the Biden Administration to ensure that emergency measures enacted to expand access...

CMS Selects 4 States for ACO-Based Rural Telehealth Delivery Model

by Eric Wicklund

Four states will receive federal funding to expand telehealth and other services in rural areas through an accountable care organization (ACO) model of care. The Centers for Medicare & Medicare...

CMS Clarifies Medicare Recognition of Interstate Licensure Compacts

by Eric Wicklund

With so many states allowing telehealth services delivered by out-of-state providers, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has clarified its policy on Medicare recognition of providers...

CMS Faces a Call to Improve Telehealth Coverage for Rural Health Providers

by Eric Wicklund

Several organizations are making an extra effort to lobby for expanded telehealth coverage for rural healthcare providers beyond the pandemic. While telehealth advocates have been lobbying the Centers...

Telehealth Groups Pressure CMS to Expand Coverage in 2022 Physician Fee Schedule

by Eric Wicklund

Telehealth advocates are asking the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to amend the proposed 2022 Physician Fee Schedule to permanently extend emergency measures on telehealth access and...

CMS Plans to Scrap Innovative mHealth Technology Program

by Eric Wicklund

Federal officials are ditching a plan to speed up Medicare coverage for innovative mHealth technology, saying the Trump-era plan would have put patients at risk. The Centers for Medicare &...

CMS Faces Calls to Improve Remote Patient Monitoring Coverage in 2022 PFS

by Eric Wicklund

With remote patient monitoring projects surging in popularity as a result of the pandemic, telehealth advocates are lobbying the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to improve proposed...

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