CMS Proposes Continuing Telehealth In Diabetes Prevention Program

The Medicare Diabetes Prevention Program’s telehealth and other COVID-19 flexibilities should continue throughout 2023 and beyond the public health emergency declaration, which is scheduled to end May 11, CMS says in a proposed rule released Friday (April 28). Towards the beginning of the pandemic in 2020, CMS decided to suspend in-person delivery of MDPP services and offered alternatives to the in-person weight measurements requirement , like using scales that transmit weights securely via wireless or cellular transmission or via self-reported...