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Regulatory Hurdles For Expanded Telehealth Services Amid Pandemic Remain.
TIME (8/10, Abrams) reports, “In recent months, hospitals around the country, looking for ways to free up beds for coronavirus patients, began expanding their virtual offerings, launching video doctors’ visits and virtual therapy sessions, and rolling out programs to remotely monitor vulnerable patients, like those in nursing homes.” As patients and physicians “embraced these new, online methods of care, Medicare, Medicaid and many private insurers temporarily changed their payment rules to accommodate them,” yet “many of these changes are only guaranteed through October, and plenty of regulatory hurdles remain.” Following the US coronavirus outbreak, CMS “issued a number of waivers relaxing these rules, and private insurers followed suit.”