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Emma J. Chapman provides regulatory and compliance advice to health care providers. She is particularly focused on emerging health care technology solutions and the regulatory issues that impact them, including telehealth and digital health matters. Click here to read Emma Chapman's full bio.
Last week, President Trump signed the SUPPORT for Patients and Communities Act (SUPPORT Act), a bipartisan piece of legislation designed to tackle the opioid crisis by, among other approaches, increasing the use of telemedicine services to treat addiction. Several key provisions are summarized below.
The package includes provisions to expand public reimbursement for telemedicine services…
On November 1, 2018, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) issued final rules for updating the 2019 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule to implement recent telehealth-related legislative reforms. As reported in our Digital Health Mid-Year Report: Focus on Medicare, these changes are expected to have a material impact on the ability of providers to…
