Proposed Physician Fee Schedule (PFS) CY 2023
This factsheet reviews the Proposed Physician Fee Schedule (PFS) for CY 2023 as it pertains to telehealth.
This factsheet reviews the Proposed Physician Fee Schedule (PFS) for CY 2023 as it pertains to telehealth.
CCHP’s July Newsletter is Here! This month’s topics include: Abortion Decision Impact on Telemedicine & Privacy; CMS Releases CY 2023 Proposed Physician Fee Schedule (PFS); White House ONDCP Report & Recommendations on Telehealth and SUD Services during COVID-19; Latest Policy Developments in CCHP’s Telehealth Policy Finder and Policy Trends Map; OIG Semi-Annual Report Highlights Telehealth Activities in Six Month Period; CMS Requests Comments on Collection of Information on Use of Telecommunication Technology in Home Health Prospective Payment System; FSMB Updates Telemedicine Guidance; CMS Updates Guidance Documents with Telehealth Clarifications for FQHCs, RHCs and Diabetes Self-Management Training Program; Analysis of Telehealth Medicare E&M Claims Data.
This video will look at where telehealth policy may be when the federal public health emergency is declared over. View the PPT for this video here:
FAIR Health recently released an issue brief looking at “The Evolution of Telehealth during the COVID-19 Pandemic” utilizing data from their Monthly Telehealth Regional Tracker. FAIR Health receives voluntarily provided claims data, housing the country’s largest collection of private payer healthcare claims, while also receiving Medicare data, which allows them the ability to produce valuable reports for various government and healthcare entities. For the issue brief, FAIR Health focused on private payer claims.
In addition to COVID-19, the United States faced another public health crisis, the opioid epidemic. During COVID-19, some substance use disorder (SUD) patients found themselves cut off from care. Telehealth was used to help alleviate some of these access issues. In this webinar, we’ll hear about various approaches to the use of telehealth to treat SUD from federal, state and local perspectives.