Health Leaders: Medicare has made permanent nine telehealth services and will extend payments for another 59 services beyond the public health emergency in the ongoing effort to expand remote healthcare access in rural America, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services said Tuesday.
In a media telephone conference Tuesday afternoon, CMS Administrator Seema Verma said the extension of benefits, limited by statutory authority to rural areas, is an acknowledgement of "the speed and effectiveness with which the American healthcare system has adapted to telehealth," which she called "astounding."
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