Fierce Healthcare

MAY 25, 2023

As pandemic flexibilities unwind, here's how enrollment in different types of coverage could change pminemyer Thu, 05/25/2023 - 14:42

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DECEMBER 13, 2022

HHS proposes to make permanent telehealth flexibilities for doling out buprenorphine. Tue, 12/13/2022 - 17:10.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Hundreds of organizations urge governors to extend telehealth licensure flexibilities. Tue, 11/02/2021 - 14:32.

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Health Care Dive

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

But witnesses noted Congress shouldn’t wait to enshrine pandemic-era accommodations for virtual care, arguing regulatory uncertainty is a danger to telehealth’s longevity.

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p3care

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

In such tough times, CMS offers flexibility to ease out the administrative load. Flexible Reporting Options. AMA (American Medical Association) requested CMS to offer flexible QPP MIPS reporting options and other incentive payment models. COVID-19 has overburdened the healthcare system beyond its handling capacity.

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Health Care Dive

MARCH 5, 2024

Provider groups said the government should go further to financially bolster providers during the outage at Change Healthcare.

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Fierce Healthcare

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Members of MedPAC, the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission, reiterated their broad support for simplifying the Medicare Advantage (MA) landscape for consumers during a meeting Sept. Experts discussed how to best eliminate redundant options between Medicare Advantage plans while not impeding insurers' ability to differentiate its offerings.

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Fierce Healthcare

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Docs press CMS for permanent telehealth flexibility, relief from pay cuts in fee schedule comments. Tue, 09/14/2021 - 11:44.

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Fierce Healthcare

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Nurse staffing app connectRN pulls $76M to empower nurses with flexible shifts, career development. Fri, 12/10/2021 - 10:54.

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Fierce Healthcare

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

bill extends key telehealth flexibilities, hastens CMS approval of medical devices. New Cures 2.0 Tue, 11/16/2021 - 12:01.

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Fierce Healthcare

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Actuaries project future virus surges, end of regulatory flexibility key drivers in 2022 rates. Thu, 09/02/2021 - 13:33.

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 29, 2023

CareRev’s platform is designed to simplify onboarding workflows and produce staffing insights, allowing Beebe Healthcare to identify, activate, and manage a local, flexible workforce all in one place.

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Health Care Dive

MAY 4, 2023

The agency said on Wednesday that it needs additional time to parse through the 38,000 public comments it received in response to a proposal to reintroduce stricter limits around telehealth prescribing.

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Health Care Dive

MARCH 18, 2022

regulators to authorize another booster shot for people 65 and older, Moderna has followed with a similar request for all adults, arguing an OK would "provide flexibility" to public health officials and doctors. Days after Pfizer asked U.S.

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Health Care Dive

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Still, the American Telemedicine Association and other virtual care lobbies said there was more to do to enshrine telehealth access into American law.

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Home Health Care

AUGUST 3, 2023

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has extended a COVID-19 pandemic-era waiver that will allow home- and community-based service (HCBS) providers to take advantage of flexibilities in their state programs. Under the previous policy, these flexibilities were set to expire six months after the expiration of the PHE — Nov.

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Health Care Dive

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

A variety of pandemic-era policies will expire May 11, including those allowing providers to prescribe controlled substances via telehealth without an in-person visit and rules requiring payers to cover COVID-19 testing.

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MAY 9, 2023

For any practitioner-patient telemedicine relationships that have been or will be established up to November 11, 2023, the full set of telemedicine flexibilities regarding the prescription of controlled medications established during the COVID-19 PHE will be extended for one year – through November 11, 2024.

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NASHP

JUNE 30, 2023

With the end of the COVID-19 PHE declaration on May 11, 2023, states must decide if and what types of flexibilities will be sustained long-term. More than half of states (32) plan to sustain flexibilities affecting payment to family caregivers and/or to professional caregivers. Information was collected between May 9 and June 23, 2023.

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Health Care Dive

AUGUST 1, 2022

Advocates are hoping the mobile clinic model will accelerate access to abortions, especially for those in states where the procedure is outlawed.

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Sheppard Health Law

OCTOBER 17, 2023

As described in a previous update , the DEA proposed a rule in March 2023 to extend some flexibilities while making permanent certain scenarios in which a practitioner could prescribe controlled substances without a prior in-person evaluation.

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Health Care Dive

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

The agency is also moving forward with a plan to stop the elimination of the Medicare inpatient-only list, which is a win for hospitals.

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Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 5, 2022

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Health Care Dive

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

It's a capital-efficient way to achieve growth without being pigeonholed into one approach and differs from the value-based blueprints of peers UnitedHealth and Humana, analysts said.

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Health Care Dive

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

The groups sent a letter to lawmakers on Tuesday asking them to extend pandemic-era access to virtually delivered care, including waiving provider and patient location limitations.

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Health Care Dive

APRIL 11, 2024

Congress has until year-end to take action before some pandemic-era telehealth flexibilities expire, which could create new challenges for patients and providers used to virtual care, witnesses at House hearing said.

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Health Care Dive

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Rural providers are weighing whether to switch to a new payment model as federal regulators aim to curb hospital closures.

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Home Health Care

JULY 29, 2022

The news is notable because it means that these pandemic-relief telehealth flexibilities could be untied from the public health emergency (PHE). Before this flexibility was in place, patients were required to have an in-person doctor’s appointment before they could receive home health services. House of Representatives.

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Home Health Care

APRIL 27, 2022

As far as building a team, both Kirby and Hutson believe that now is a great time to be a part of a startup because of how flexible they’re able to be and how enticing it is to work for one. Streamlining training, flexibility in staffing. So the combination of those three labor models has given us a lot of flexibility.”.

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NASHP

AUGUST 31, 2023

During the COVID-19 public health emergency, states received approval from the federal government to implement many flexibilities within their home and community-based services programs to ensure that Medicaid beneficiaries were able to receive needed services during the pandemic.

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Briggs Healthcare

MAY 11, 2023

Throughout the PHE various waivers, regulations, enforcement discretion, and sub-regulatory guidance were utilized to ensure access to care and give health care providers the flexibilities needed to respond to the PHE. This) is a list of the waivers and flexibilities and their status at the end of the PHE.

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Home Health Care

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Among its key pillars, the refresh calls for greater payment and regulatory flexibilities supporting the provision of home- and community-based care. The post CMS Hopes to Support Home-Based Care with More Payment, Regulatory Flexibilities appeared first on Home Health Care News.

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Briggs Healthcare

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

At the beginning of the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency (PHE), CMS used emergency waiver authorities and various regulatory authorities to enable flexibilities so providers could rapidly respond to people impacted by COVID-19. Since the beginning of the PHE, CMS has both added and terminated flexibilities and waivers as needed.

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Health Policy News

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Earlier this month, the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) and the Department Health and Human Services (HHS) published a temporary rule that further extended COVID-era telemedicine flexibilities for prescribing controlled substances.

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Health Care Dive

APRIL 18, 2024

Some pandemic flexibilities are set to expire at the end of 2024. The findings suggest it would be challenging to restrict telehealth payment in Medicare, researchers said.

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Briggs Healthcare

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

At the beginning of the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency (PHE), CMS used emergency waiver authorities and various regulatory authorities to enable flexibilities so providers could rapidly respond to people impacted by COVID-19. Since the beginning of the PHE, CMS has both added and terminated flexibilities and waivers as needed.

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Briggs Healthcare

MARCH 10, 2023

With the announcement that the PHE will end on May 11, 2023, Iowa Medicaid will begin releasing a series of informational letters concerning the end of these PHE flexibilities. As each flexibility ends, Iowa Medicaid will publish an informational letter explaining the piece that is “unwinding,” or returning to normal operating procedures.

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