Senate OKs bill expanding telehealth coverage in Medicare

The Creating High-Quality Results and Outcomes Necessary to Improve Chronic Care Act of 2017 eliminates barriers in the use of telehealth technologies which will form a more care at home and less institutional type of chronic condition management for patients.

September 28, 2017 by SmartBrief

The Senate unanimously approved the Creating High-Quality Results and Outcomes Necessary to Improve Chronic Care Act of 2017, which would broaden coverage for telehealth under Medicare Advantage Plan B beginning in 2020. The bill would also increase accountable care organizations’ ability to use telemedicine and expand CMS’ home-based primary care teams for patients who have multiple chronic conditions.