MedPage Today July 27, 2020
— Emerging trends in telemedicine and telehealth
Welcome to Telehealth Roundup, highlighting news and features about emerging trends in telemedicine and telehealth.
Telehealth Legislation Introduced
Members of the House Telehealth Caucus recently introduced bipartisan legislation to extend telehealth waivers permanently for Medicare patients, HealthLeaders Media reported.
The Protecting Access to Post-COVID-19 Telehealth Act would continue telehealth use beyond the COVID-19 public health emergency, making telemedicine more flexible and removing geographic restrictions to allow a patient’s home to be an originating site.
In a Health Affairs blog, Seema Verma, MPH, administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, weighed in: “As the health care system enters a new normal it is important to consider whether allowing people with particularly acute...
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