Senators Focus On Telehealth Broadband Access; Providers Want Payment

By Ariel Cohen / October 2, 2017 at 12:09 PM
The Senate Broadband Caucus met with telemedicine providers during a Wednesday (Sept 27) expo in the Senate to discuss expanding broadband to rural areas, but the conversation soon turned instead to telehealth Medicare reimbursement. Medicare only covers telehealth in federally defined rural health professional shortage areas, only eight types of practitioners may deliver telehealth services to Medicare beneficiaries from a qualified distant site, and CMS publishes few reimbursement codes for telehealth services -- most of them designated for behavioral health...

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