Managed Healthcare Executive July 29, 2022
The House of Representatives recently passed a bill this week that continues telehealth use under Medicare through 2024 that was initially authorized during the the height of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The bill, H.R. 4040, Advancing Telehealth Beyond COVID-19 Act of 2022, would allow federally qualified health centers and rural health clinics to serve as a site for beneficiaries to receive telehealth services anywhere, regardless of type or location. The bill would allow any type of practitioner to offer CMS approved telehealth services and it would continue coverage for audio-only evaluation and management and behavioral health services.
The continuance follows after many telehealth business models regressed to limited serevices that once existed before the pandemic.
The American Medical Association applauded the...
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