HealthLeaders Media February 9, 2018
Medicare Advantage plans, ACOs, and physicians offering telehealth services stand to benefit from provisions set forth in the omnibus package.
In addition to providing several funding measures to federal healthcare programs, the bipartisan budget deal signed into law Friday by President Donald Trump also approved new regulations that could expand telehealth.
The two-year budget agreement widens telehealth options for Medicare Advantage plans and Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs), and it authorizes payments to physicians who furnish telehealth services starting in 2021.
“This legislation represents the first time physician payment has been enabled for the broad Medicare population and, we believe, marks the beginning of a shift in policy supportive of telehealth as a means to improve access and lower cost,”...
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