mHealth Intelligence October 6, 2023
The newly introduced bill would make permanent a pandemic-era flexibility that allows Medicare reimbursement for home-based cardiac rehab delivered via telehealth.
Three United States senators have introduced new legislation that would allow Medicare beneficiaries to receive cardiac and pulmonary rehabilitation services at home through telehealth.
During the COVID-19 public health emergency (PHE), in-person care restrictions prevented Americans from receiving needed care. Thus, government agencies, like the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), enacted numerous flexibilities to ensure continuity of care. One such flexibility temporarily allowed cardiac and pulmonary rehabilitation programs to be reimbursed under Medicare when provided or supervised virtually in patient homes. But this flexibility ended on May 11 with the lifting of the PHE.
On Oct. 4,...
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