Home Health Care News May 22, 2020
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced Friday it has finalized changes to Medicare Advantage (MA) and Medicare Part D. The changes — detailed in a final rule for 2021 — partly seek to strengthen access to telehealth services, an increasingly important component of the health care system amid the ongoing coronavirus emergency.
While the changes included in the rule do not directly focus on home health care providers, they could encourage greater telehealth adoption as a way of building more MA relationships, experts say.
Specifically, Friday’s rule gives MA plans more flexibility to count telehealth providers in certain specialty areas toward meeting CMS network adequacy standards. Examples of...
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