AP (8/3, Alonso-Zaldivar) reports “the Trump Administration is taking steps to give telehealth a broader role under Medicare, with an executive order that serves as a call for Congress to make doctor visits via personal technology a permanent fixture of the program.” The recently signed order “will also set in motion an experiment under which hospitals in rural communities could receive a more predictable stream of Medicare payments in exchange for delivering better performance on certain measures of quality.” CMS Administrator Seema Verma “predicted telehealth will become the modern equivalent of the house call.” She said, “In an earlier age, doctors commonly made house calls. ...