What’s Ahead: This Week Hearings/Markups – Tuesday, June 26 House Veterans Affairs Committee, “VA Electronic Health Record Modernization: The Beginning of the Beginning.” House Appropriations Committee, “Markup of FY19 Labor-HHS-Education Appropriations Bill.” Senate Appropriations Committee, Subcommittee on Labor-HHS-Education, “Markup of FY19 Labor-HHS-Education Appropriations Bill.” Senate Finance Committee, “Prescription Drug Affordability and Innovation: Addressing Challenges in Today’s… Read more »
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Health Care Policy Update – Weekly Wrap-up and What’s Ahead
What’s Ahead: This Week Hearings/Markups – Tuesday, June 5 Senate Appropriations Committee, Subcommittee on Military Construction Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies, “Markup of the Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2019.” Wednesday, June 6 House Ways & Means Committee, Subcommittee on Health, “Hearing on Lowering Costs and Expanding Access to Health Care through… Read more »
Azar Could Be a Telemedicine Champion
AZAR COULD BE A TELEMEDICINE CHAMPION: At least one advocacy group thinks the former Eli Lilly executive now heading the health department will advance virtual care. Alex Azar — whose swearing-in ceremony was peppered with insistence from the president that he would lower drug prices — told lawmakers during his confirmation process that he supported… Read more »
Both Sides of the Aisle Agree – Telemedicine is the Future | The Hill Op-ed
Last Thursday, in the midst of the intense debate about the future of ObamaCare, Congress held yet another hearing extoling the virtues of telehealth and remote patient monitoring, and lamenting the barriers in Medicare that are preventing seniors from accessing these new technologies in the same way as patients in the commercial market. The hearing… Read more »
“Telemedicine was never envisioned as part of ACA repeal…”
Telemedicine advocates will continue to push for more Medicare payment. “Telemedicine was never envisioned as part of ACA repeal,” said Krista Drobac, executive director of the Alliance for Connected Care. “It is a bipartisan issue that is a natural place to go to next.”
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