McKnight's April 12, 2024
Maintaining Medicare beneficiaries’ access to telehealth services, especially for behavioral health, must remain an initial priority over payment reform or quality measurement, members of a congressional advisory panel said Thursday.
The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission weighed its strategy on setting telehealth guardrails a day after a key House of Representatives committee held a hearing on 15 pieces of telehealth-related legislation.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid services expanded the use of telehealth by Medicare beneficiaries at the beginning of the pandemic, and Congress previously voted to extend those waivers beyond the end of the public health emergency. But Congress must act again by year’s end to keep access from reverting to the few specific rural uses that were permitted prior...
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