Fierce Healthcare May 15, 2024
Emma Beavins

Editor’s note: The amended TMA would extend Medicare billing for RHCs and FQHCs for two years.

The Energy and Commerce Committee released telehealth extension legislation today that will be voted on during a health subcommittee markup Thursday. The markup will also include bills to change billing requirements for remote patient monitoring, expand the Medicare Diabetes Prevention Program to virtual-only providers and to prevent fraud in Medicare and Medicaid.

The Energy and Commerce telehealth extension legislation includes slight differences from the Ways and Means telehealth extension bill passed out of committee unanimously last week.

The Energy and Commerce Committee finagled its changes into an amendment of the Telehealth Modernization Act (TMA), which Rep. Buddy Carter, R-Georgia, reintroduced in February....

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