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HHS Secretary Azar touts Trump admin's digital health response to COVID-19

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar this week praised the Trump administration's technology response to the COVID-19 pandemic, highlighting its efforts on data collection, telehealth expansion and more. billion data elements.

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COVID-19: ATA, HIMSS, others want waivers for Medicare telehealth restrictions

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The groups are also asking for an accompanying provision that would give Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar the authority to waive the restrictions on telehealth visits during a public health emergency currently imposed by Medicare. Email the writer: mike.miliard@himssmedia.com.

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AHA asks HHS to safeguard access to telehealth after COVID-19

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

In its letter, which it also addressed to HHS Secretary Alex Azar and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator Seema Verma, AHA advised the administration to take a series of steps in response to the order. ON THE RECORD.

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Ohio legislature passes ban on abortion via telehealth

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The bill's passage came the week after a federal judge declined to reinstate rules requiring patients seeking a medication abortion to visit a clinic or doctor's office in person during the pandemic. Secretary of Health and Human Services Alex Azar.

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Senators call for CMS to provide plan for telehealth changes

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Secretary of Health and Human Services Alex Azar and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator Seema Verma to provide a written plan for permanent changes to Medicare, Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program rules around telehealth. THE LARGER TREND.

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Retail Pricing in U.S. Health Care? Why Transparency Is Hard to Do

Health Populi

So regarding those “prices” about which Reinhardt and Anderson warned: the prices are personal to the patient, now the payer. Today, with high-deductible health plans that compel the patient-as-payor to spend dollar one on health care up to their plan share, she can’t get a handle on that ultimate, personal price.

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HHS Approves Telecommunications for Providing Medicare Home Health Services, on a Permanent Basis, Effective January 1, 2021

C&M Health Law

For the duration of the COVID-19 public health emergency, CMS had issued Blanket Waivers for providers that include waiving the requirement for an in-person home visit to establish patient eligibility. Instead, as appropriate, providers may conduct the initial in-person home visit through video and audio technology or by record review.