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DEA and HHS push off new telemedicine prescribing rules to end-of-year

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

By extending the Expansion of Buprenorphine Treatment via Telemedicine Encounter and Continuity of Care via Telemedicine for Veterans Affairs Patients final rules – first promulgated Jan. One concern has been limiting virtual prescribing access to terminally ill patients in hospice care. 17 – to Dec.

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DEA plans to create a special telehealth registration for prescribers

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

To prevent patients from losing access to their telehealth-prescribed medications, the DEA is offering three types of special registration: Telemedicine Prescribing Registration - authorizes qualified clinician practitioners to prescribe Schedule III-V controlled substances.

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Telehealth groups urge DEA to release virtual e-prescribing rules

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

With current pandemic-era flexibilities for telemedicine set to expire at the end of 2024, several telehealth groups and major health systems are calling on the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration to work faster in crafting a new proposed rule regulating the prescribing of controlled substances via telehealth.

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Henry Ford Health System gets ROI from employer-based telemedicine clinic

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Michigan's Henry Ford Health System and General Motors partnered to develop a narrow-network insurance product for GM employees called GM Connect Care. Through this product, HFHS aimed to offer innovative care delivery options that would be convenient and cost-effective for GM's members. THE PROBLEM. " MARKETPLACE.

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American Hospital Association, Johns Hopkins and others launch pro-telehealth campaign

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

A group of 16 provider and industry organizations this past week launched a campaign geared toward protecting and expanding access to telehealth. Telehealth Access for America is aimed at educating members of the public about the need to enact permanent legislation around virtual care services. Alliance for Connected Care.

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Congress should include telehealth in year-end funding, say ATA, HIMSS

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The American Telemedicine Association, the Connected Health Initiative and other industry groups issued a letter to Congress on Friday urging legislators to extend temporary telehealth flexibilities until the end of 2021. WHY IT MATTERS. That flexibility, in turn, shed light on how arbitrary some of those restrictions were.

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COVID-19 presents a new chance to make telehealth accessible to the underserved

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

At the same time, say industry leaders, vulnerable groups – especially people of color – are being left behind. "Regrettably, minority groups are being left behind by the telehealth revolution," said David Smith, executive director for the Medicaid Transformation Project, in an interview with Healthcare IT News.