AMA supports Senate bill to permanently lift Medicare’s geographic, site restrictions on telehealth

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Monday, September 21, 2020 (0 Comments)
Posted by: Diane Berg

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Becker’s Hospital Review (9/18, Drees) reports that the American Medical Association “highlighted its support on Sept. 18 of the Senate’s “Telehealth Modernization Act of 2020,” which would permanently cut many of the regulatory restrictions that were provisionally lifted at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic.” AMA Chief Executive Officer and Executive Vice President James L. Madara, M.D., “wrote in a Sept. 2 letter to the Senate health, education, labor and pensions committee: ‘The success of telehealth technology adoption during the COVID-19 public health emergency has made it abundantly clear that this technology should be available to all Medicare patients regardless of where they live or how they access telehealth services.’”

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AMA supports Senate bill to permanently lift Medicare’s geographic, site restrictions on telehealth