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Introduction to school-based telehealth
October 4, 2022School-based telehealth improves and expands a student’s ability to access health care providers. Increased access to health care helps students stay or become healthy and focus on learning.
Medicare Telehealth
October 4, 2022Actions Needed to Strengthen Oversight and Help Providers Educate Patients on Privacy and Security Risks.
CMS Announces Roadmap for End of the COVID-19 PHE
August 29, 2022The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced on August 18 that it has developed a roadmap for the eventual end of the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency (PHE). During the COVID-19 PHE, CMS has used emergency waiver authorities to establish regulatory flexibilities for providers that enabled access to health care. Most of these waivers and flexibilities will terminate at the end of the PHE. CMS developed an initiative for reestablishing program requirements and health and safety standards when the PHE ends.
Intermountain’s Dr. Todd Vento Wins UETN Telehealth Excellence Award
August 26, 2022Intermountain Healthcare’s Dr. Todd Vento is the 2022 winner of the 3rd annual Deborah LaMarche Telehealth Excellence Award.
House OKs Extension of Medicare Telehealth Flexibilities Through 2024
August 1, 2022By a near unanimous vote, the US House of Representatives has passed a bill expanding telehealth access and coverage for Medicare services until the end of 2024, while making those flexibilities permanent for FQHCs and RHCs. The bill now goes to the Senate.
HHS Delivers Guidance on Nondiscrimination in Telehealth
August 1, 2022With this guidance, the HHS Office for Civil Rights (OCR) and DOJ’s Civil Rights Division (CRT) explain how various federal laws require making telehealth accessible to people with disabilities and limited English proficient persons. These laws include Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 (Section 504),1 the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA),2 Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Title VI),3 and Section 1557 of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Section 1557), 4 (collectively, “federal civil rights laws”). Section 1557 regulations specifically provide that covered health programs or activities provided by covered entities through electronic or information technology.