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The proposed CMS rules would make permanent additions to the telehealth services list nine codes that were temporarily covered during the COVID-19 publichealth emergency. "The ATA looks forward to working with the agency to solve these issues and ensure that this type of remotecare is available to patients."
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A: At the beginning of the pandemic, HHS and CMS released an interim final rule to give providers more flexibility to furnish services using remotecare technology for the duration of the publichealth emergency. What is the problem?
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” Even before the COVID-19 crisis, telehealth proved itself to be a practice attribute – it improves care and office operations and even allows the physicians to provide remotecare to their college-age patients or to families traveling, he said.
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