The intent of H.R. 2291 is to expand the coverage of telehealth services under the Medicare program, to provide coverage for home-based monitoring for congestive heart failure and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease under such program, and for other purposes.
S. 431 would allow any site administering acute stroke care to be added as an eligible site with no geographic restrictions, but exclusively limited to providing services to treat acute stroke for Medicare patients. H.R 1148 is more limited in its allowances, exclusively allowing only hospitals or mobile units administering telehealth-eligible stroke services to qualify as an eligible site for strictly defned “telehealth-eligible stroke services”.
The intent of this bill is to eliminate the sunset date for the Veterans Choice Program of the Department of Veterans Affairs, to expand eligibility for such program, and to extend certain operating hours for pharmacies and medical facilities of the Department, and for other purposes.
Funded by the California Health Care Foundation, CCHP worked in conjunction with the University of California San Diego to help improve the policy and reimbursement environment for the use of telehealth to control tuberculosis and other infectious diseases.
The intent of this bill is to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2017 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy, to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for other purposes.
