HHS Asks Congress To Push Site Neutral Pay, Make Telehealth Available

HHS is pushing Congress to consider more site-neutral pay policies in Medicare, repeal the Affordable Care Act’s limit on physician-owned hospitals, relax telehealth restrictions and give Medicare beneficiaries more access to health savings accounts, as part of a new Trump administration report on ways to increase health care choice and competition. The report also says the administration should push Medicare Advantage policies and move away from fee-for-service, even as the administration has been questioned for allegedly steering beneficiaries toward MA...