Fierce Healthcare reports “The Alliance for Connected Care is petitioning the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS’) new administrator, Mehmet Oz, M.D., to act on digital healthcare regulatory issues.

Oz was confirmed April 3 by the Senate. After Oz affirmed the value of telehealth during a confirmation hearing in March, digital health lobbyists are asking him to follow through on policy reform. 

The alliance wrote to Oz Thursday asking him to address issues in digital health regulation that apply to hospitals, hybrid providers and virtual-only providers.”

The letter states, “a system reported that it would take their operations staff around 6 hours of work per provider, per year, to add and maintain an average of three billing addresses per telehealth provider. For a health system with more than 3,300 telehealth clinicians, that results in more than 20,000 hours of additional staff work per year. Another system found similar estimates, with more than 4,500 telehealth clinicians resulting in approximately 27,000 staff hours of additional staff work per year.”

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