MedCity News October 21, 2022
Arundhati Parmar

In a conference session on Friday in Chicago, CMS Administrator Chiquita Brooks-LaSure said that Congress has authorized the agency to reimburse telehealth through Medicare permanently – in other words, even beyond the pandemic.

The pandemic caused the federal government to suspend limits on the use of telehealth and allowed providers to get reimbursed for taking care of patients virtually. But what happens when the public health emergency ends and the waivers go away? How would the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services reimburse a service that has proved hugely popular during Covid-19 and which continues to have high utilization by people seeking mental health assistance online?

That was the question, Jamie Harding, head of healthcare, Reuters Events, posed to CMS...

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