Home Health Care News November 11, 2018
A recently proposed rule by federal policymakers expanding access to telehealth services through Medicare Advantage (MA) plans would likely be a major boon to home health providers and technology vendors alike, industry insiders say.
Currently, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) largely restricts telehealth reimbursement to clinical settings in rural areas, apart from certain exceptions in Alaska and Hawaii. While that regulatory landscape has opened the door for telehealth use in skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) operating in sparsely populated, non-urban markets, it has mostly shut out the home health industry and slowed providers’ innovation pace.
Other roadblocks have hurt industry adoption as well, Lee Horner, CEO of Clearwater, Florida-based virtual care company Synzi, told Home Health Care News...
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