Featured Report: New House Bill Would Define Telehealth, Provide Guidelines

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iHealthbeat
New House Bill Would Define Telehealth, Provide Guidelines
Dec,20,2013
by+Staff
A new bill (HR 3750) introduced in the House would create a federal definition of telehealth and provide guidance for how states can regulate such technology, InformationWeek reports.
Background
According to a release about the bill, "there currently are 50 separate sets of rules" in different states over what types of telehealth care can be provided. HR 3750 was modeled after legislation (AB 415) recently enacted in California that broadened the definition of telehealth to include:
At-home patient monitoring; and Store-and-forward technology. In addition, AB 415, allows Medi-Cal, the state's Medicaid program, to cover doctor-patient communications that are not face-to-face.
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Modern Healthcare
Three years after final rule, CMS set to launch fingerprinting effort aimed at Medicare fraud
Dec,18,2013
by:+Virgil Dickson
The CMS plans to award a contract early next year to a company that will conduct fingerprint-based background checks for thousands of Medicare providers and suppliers each year.
The contract will come nearly three years after the agency released a final rule on the screening, which is one of several provisions in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act giving HHS new tools to crack down on Medicare fraud, particularly in areas of the program that have proved most vulnerable to abuse. Republicans have criticized the administration for not rolling them out faster.
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Home telehealth helps specialists reach Parkinson’s patients
MobiHealthNews
Dec,19,2013
by:+Neil Versel
“Virtual house calls” over consumer-grade webcams and mobile devices have great potential to improve the care of patients with Parkinson’s disease and other neurological disorders, new research has shown, but the lingering issues of reimbursement and physician licensure continue to hinder growth of remote consultations.
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Modern Healthcare
Uninsured, patients with public coverage have trouble finding doctors
Dec,18,2013
by:+Steven Ross Johnson
Uninsured adults and those with public health coverage have a harder time finding a primary-care physician who will take them as a patient compared with people who have private insurance, government data shows.
That raises questions about whether the healthcare system is ready to meet the increased demand that will come from the millions of Americans who will receive new private and public coverage under Obamacare.
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