Healthcare Finance reported on the letter sent to CMS Administrator Dr. Oz by the Alliance for Connected Care, noting the organizations recommendations for improved care access via telehealth.

They write, “the Alliance for Connected Care is using the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ recent appointment of its new administrator, Dr. Mehmet Oz, as an opportunity to advocate for digital healthcare initiatives such as expanded access to virtual care and telehealth.

In a letter to CMS last week, the Alliance said that there are “antiquated restrictions” on care that “stand in the way of our technology-enabled future.”

Currently, the Alliance said, CMS allows practitioners to render telehealth services from a location such as their home without reporting it as an additional billing location. That allowance will end on Dec. 31.”

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