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HIMSSCast: The advocacy plans of the newly combined ATA Action and DTA

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Talking points: Ensuring the permanence of pandemic-era telehealth flexibilities remains a top priority Why this is particularly true for Medicare, where ATA is advocating to eliminate outdated geographic restrictions, maintain provider eligibility expansions, and secure long-term access to virtual care The launch of the ATA Action Advancing Digital (..)

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Two major telehealth orgs team up to expand virtual care training

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Although the future of telehealth remains uncertain from a federal policy perspective, patients have largely expressed satisfaction with the modality – which suggests that providers may benefit from offering it as a service in the long term. THE LARGER TREND.

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Searching for a New Normal: How Expiration of the Federal Public Health Emergency Impacts Access to Health Care Services

Center for Health Insurance Reform

After more than three years, the federal COVID-19 public health emergency (PHE) is set to expire on May 11, 2023. Once the PHE designation is lifted, a number of federal policies intended to help the U.S. health care system adapt to the pandemic will also expire.

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Policy Experts Discuss Strategies to Keep Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance Afloat

Center for Health Insurance Reform

Senator Maggie Hassan and a panel discussion moderated by Sarah Kliff of The New York Times, spotlighted state cost containment policies and employer strategies to inform the federal policy process concerning ESI, which covers almost half of all Americans.

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New Hampshire lawmakers push to roll back telehealth coverage

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

New Hampshire joins several other states in enacting telehealth legislation in the absence of federal policy. This bill is clearly biased against our most elderly, most poor, most limited and most rural citizens," read the Valley News letter. THE LARGER TREND. This past month, Massachusetts Gov.

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How we can avoid the 'telehealth cliff'

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Panelist Mark Hayes, senior vice president of federal policy and advocacy at Ascension, noted that the pandemic made clear that existing restrictions on telehealth are "outdated." Thus, she said, it's up to Congress to address those statutes, as they temporarily did at the start of the pandemic.

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ATA Action Acquires Digital Therapeutics Alliance, Forms New Digital Health Coalition

HIT Consultant

Our goal is to create a unified voice to shape healthcare policies, ensuring that telehealth and digital therapeutics remain integral components of the U.S. healthcare system, said Kyle Zebley, executive director, ATA Action and senior vice president, public policy at the ATA.