telehealth
HHS Issues Guidance on HIPAA and Audio-Only Telehealth
On Monday, June 13, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), through its Office for Civil Rights (OCR), is issuing guidance on how covered health care providers and health plans can use remote communication technologies to provide audio-only telehealth services when such communications are conducted in a manner that is consistent with the applicable requirements […]
Read MoreHHS Issues Guidance on HIPAA and Audio-Only Telehealth
On Monday, June 13, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), through its Office for Civil Rights (OCR), is issuing guidance on how covered health care providers and health plans can use remote communication technologies to provide audio-only telehealth services when such communications are conducted in a manner that is consistent with the applicable requirements […]
Read MoreFederal Funding Deal Includes Important Telehealth, Other Health Care Provisions
Text of the bill is HERE. A summary of the entire bill is HERE Late in the evening on Tuesday, March 8, the House of Representatives’ Appropriations Committee released the text of the FY2022 Omnibus government spending legislation. The situation is very fluid right now and the details of the bill could change. For example, after a […]
Read MoreFederal Funding Deal Includes Important Telehealth, Other Health Care Provisions
Text of the bill is HERE. A summary of the entire bill is HERE Late in the evening on Tuesday, March 8, the House of Representatives’ Appropriations Committee released the text of the FY2022 Omnibus government spending legislation. The situation is very fluid right now and the details of the bill could change. For example, […]
Read MoreAdvocacy Alert: Ask Congress to Extend a Critical Telehealth Policy for Hospices
Tell Congress to Extend the Hospice Face-to-Face Telehealth Flexibility Act now before the March 11 deadline! The National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC) is calling on home-based care advocates to reach out to your members of congress now and ask that, as part of any forthcoming omnibus government spending legislation, they include an […]
Read MoreAdvocacy Alert: Ask Congress to Extend a Critical Telehealth Policy for Hospices
Tell Congress to Extend the Hospice Face-to-Face Telehealth Flexibility Act now before the March 11 deadline! The National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC) is calling on home-based care advocates to reach out to your members of congress now and ask that, as part of any forthcoming omnibus government spending legislation, they include an extension of […]
Read MoreNAHC to Congress: Sequester Relief and Telehealth Extension
The National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC) has written a letter to Congressional leaders urging them to work to enact legislative proposals that will prevent billions of dollars in harmful sequestration-related Medicare rate cuts, as well as extend a key PHE-related hospice telehealth flexibility. Online advocacy outreach campaigns have also been set up so that […]
Read MoreNAHC Urges CMS to Collect Data on Technology-based and Chaplain Visits
Prior to the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency (PHE) many hospice providers had significant success with use of technology-based visits; however, there were a number of hospices that did not utilize technologies to their fullest extent because they believed they were required to provide all visits in-person. Early in the PHE, the Centers for Medicare & […]
Read MoreNAHC to Congress: Sequester Relief and Telehealth Extension
The National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC) has written a letter to Congressional leaders urging them to work to enact legislative proposals that will prevent billions of dollars in harmful sequestration-related Medicare rate cuts, as well as extend a key PHE-related hospice telehealth flexibility. Online advocacy outreach campaigns have also been set up so […]
Read MoreNAHC Urges CMS to Collect Data on Technology-based and Chaplain Visits
Prior to the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency (PHE) many hospice providers had significant success with use of technology-based visits; however, there were a number of hospices that did not utilize technologies to their fullest extent because they believed they were required to provide all visits in-person. Early in the PHE, the Centers for Medicare & […]
Read MoreMedPAC Votes for Payment Cuts, Telehealth Reporting
The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) met Thursday, January 13, to vote on their annual recommendations to Congress regarding payment policy and reporting requirements. This session served as a formality following presentation and discussion of the same recommendations that were put forward at the commission’s December 2021 meeting. The proposed recommendations voted on at this […]
Read MoreMedPAC Recommends 20 Percent Cut to Hospice Aggregate Cap
Payment Freeze, Aggregate Cap and Telehealth Visit Reporting Highlighted Late last week, the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC), an advisory body to the U.S. Congress, verbally approved the following recommendations: For fiscal year (FY) 2023, the Congress should eliminate the update to the 2022 Medicare base payment rates for hospice and wage adjust and reduce the […]
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