Manatt Health March 18, 2020
Congress, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), states and private payers have all acted over the past 10 days to dramatically expand access to telehealth services. Below we summarize some of the recent developments.
Medicare
The Coronavirus Preparedness and Response Supplemental Appropriations Act signed on March 6 contains a provision to make telehealth services more widely available to Medicare enrollees in their homes (by removing geographic and origination regulations) during a declared emergency. Under long-standing law, Medicare covers telehealth for beneficiaries enrolled in fee-for-service coverage only under limited circumstances. Most notably, statutory restrictions limit coverage generally to telehealth services that originate from healthcare facilities in nonurban areas or areas with physician shortages, and not from patients’ homes. By...
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