“A new executive order from the White House is pushing to expand telehealth coverage and infrastructure, as well as make health care in rural communities more accessible beyond the COVID-19 pandemic.”
“The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services vastly expanded its Medicare coverage for telehealth visits as part of the White House’s March 13 COVID-19 national emergency declaration. CMS further increased the number of telehealth services it would cover for its beneficiaries during the pandemic in late March, totaling 135 different medical services in telehealth coverage, CMS said…”
“Until now the increased telehealth coverage and accessibility were only temporary measures to protect patients and health care providers from contracting COVID-19. The White House’s Aug. 3 executive order looks to maintain many of the expanded virtual health provisions beyond the end of the COVID-19 pandemic, however. It also looks to leverage technologies and reform to improve rural health delivery.”
“More specifically, the executive order calls upon the Department of Health and Human Services to…” Read the full article here.
Source: White House Seeks to Sustain Increased Medicare Telehealth Coverage – By Melissa Harris, August 5, 2020. GovernmentCIO.
