11.12.24
The American Medical Association’s (AMA) Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) Editorial Panel—which establishes standards for medical coding—published a Summary of Panel Actions from its September 2024 meeting, which includes the addition of six new remote physiologic and ...
08.07.24
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released its annual proposed rule updating the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (MPFS) for calendar year (CY) 2025.
07.30.24
During the first half of 2024, nineteen states passed laws entering them into an array of different interstate compacts.
07.24.24
Telehealth use spiked during the COVID-19 pandemic, facilitated by state and federal policy change through the public health emergency (PHE) declaration.
04.09.24
Manatt Health highlights the support for women’s health advances in President Biden’s recent Executive Order.
10.12.23
Telehealth holds great potential as a tool to support improved access to and continuity of care. For a variety of reasons, this promise has been largely unfulfilled.
09.27.23
The COVID-19 pandemic catalyzed a dramatic rise in the use of telehealth nationwide to deliver services to individuals enrolled in Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP).
05.31.23
The use of telehealth increased exponentially in 2020 and 2021 as health care providers and patients responded to the COVID-19 pandemic.
03.01.23
On February 24, the Drug Enforcement Administration, in consultation with the Department of Health and Human Services, issued two proposed rules that address the prescribing of controlled substances based solely on a telemedicine encounter.
01.19.23
On January 5, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued guidance for State Health Officials clarifying that Medicaid and CHIP coverage and payment of interprofessional consultations (commonly and hereafter referred to as “eConsults”) is permissible, even when the ...