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The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services must remove restrictions that hamper Medicare providers’ ability to offer telehealth services.
Chief among those limitations, according to Morgan Reed, executive director of the Connected Health Initiative, is the fact that the Medicare program’s reimbursement for telemedicine is anemic—which he says is hurting rural healthcare in America and negatively affecting beneficiaries’ health outcomes.
“What’s going on that rural caregivers can’t better engage with patients using the tools that every single one of you currently have in the palm...