CMS issues its first proposal to continue telehealth flexibilities, in home health proposed rule

Healthcare Finance News June 25, 2020
Susan Morse

The proposed rule also updates home health payment rates for 2021.

For the first time, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is proposing to make temporary telehealth provisions under COVID-19 permanent.

CMS has issued a proposed rule to make permanent regulatory changes to telecommunications technologies in providing care under the Medicare home health benefit beyond the expiration of the public health emergency for the COVID-19 pandemic.

The rule proposes to permanently finalize, beginning January 1, 2021, the amendment to the home health regulations outlined in a March 30 interim final rule responding to the COVID–19 public health emergency.

This means that home health agencies can continue to use telehealth in providing care to beneficiaries as a home health...

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