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How CMS is boosting telehealth and RPM with new CPT codes
In the latest Medicare Physician Fee Schedule, the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services proposed for the first time a set of CPT codes for remote therapeutic monitoring. These codes, according to the proposal, are intended to be used to understand the effectiveness of and the patient's response to a prescribed therapy. In particular,…
Accessible Telehealth? Solutions Are Available
WASHINGTON -- Telehealth visits should be made easier for people with disabilities, low health literacy, and other conditions that can make such visits challenging, argued speakers at an event sponsored by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine's Roundtable on Health Literacy. In a study of nearly 700 patients, including those with chronic comorbidities,…