HIT Consultant

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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Healthcare Law Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Under the Second Temporary Rule, practitioners may continue to prescribe schedule II-V controlled medications via telemedicine for new and existing patients without conducting a prior in-person medical evaluation through 2024.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 10, 2023

This week, the DEA added some specificity to that promise – allowing an extension of six months, through November 11, 2023, and, in tandem with HHS' Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, promising a grace period for virtual prescribing of certain controlled medications to last at least until November 2024.

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Hall Render

MAY 9, 2023

As a result, if a patient and a practitioner have appropriately established a telemedicine relationship on or before November 11, 2023, the same telemedicine flexibilities that have governed the relationship to that point will continue to be permitted until November 11, 2024.

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Hall Render

DECEMBER 30, 2022

Longstanding CMS policy has been that, for split or shared visits in an institutional setting, the physician can bill for the services if he/she performs a substantive portion of the encounter. CMS has chosen to extend its phase-in approach of defining “substantive portion” as more than half the time of the visit to CY 2024.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

News The 2024 Best in KLAS have been named. market, covered in the Software and Services report, KLAS recognized 136 software products across 8 categories. For the U.S. The Global Software report recognized regional leaders in acute care EHR and PACS.

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Bill of Health

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

The nation’s experience with COVID-19 demonstrated the need for increased telemedicine options for the treatment of substance use, especially in suburban and rural areas where health provider closures may severely limit access to care.

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