The COVID-19 pandemic reset expectations of Medicare telehealth coverage, prompting a letter from dozens of members of Congress to Capitol Hill leadership asking for legislation that will memorialize telehealth benefits. But concerns over spending, fraud and abuse still hang over the discussion.
The problems with U.S. Medicare coverage for medical software are well known, but the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission recently indicated that these problems are largely manageable for services delivered via managed care plans.
At the American College of Cardiology's (ACC) 24th Annual Scientific Session held this week in Atlanta, SHL Telemedicine Ltd. reported the full results of the Imperial College London TELE-ACS trial, the results of which were also published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.
