Posts in Telehealth
No Significant Fraud: CMS findings relieve concerns over Medicare Telehealth during COVID

Discover what the OIG found when investigating telehealth billing fraud, what they recommend regarding future CMS oversight, and four takeaways for businesses billing Medicare telehealth services.

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Pharmacy Innovation Series: the DEA Steps into Telepharmacy Regulation

For the first time, the Drug Enforcement Agency (“DEA”) is becoming directly involved in the telepharmacy space, an industry that the DEA has not previously regulated aside from the loose application of its existing regulations governing online pharmacies. Find out what this means for your business and how you can submit comments to the DEA directly in this post.

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3 Key Challenges Facing Tele-dentistry Companies and How to Approach Them

Dentistry is one of a number of clinical specialties that is taking a creative and innovative approach to delivering care using digital health tools. Most of us are now familiar with Byte, SmileDirectClub, and Candid—these companies are pioneers in the space. However, tele-dentistry has far more potential applications than retail clear aligner services. Tele-dentistry entrepreneurs are building solutions for remote examination of sore or swollen teeth and gums, screening for certain oral diseases and cancers, mobile dental hygiene, dental hygiene education, and more.

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Telehealth in the 2022 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule: Audio-Only Telehealth for Mental Health Made Permanent, and CMS Punts on Remote Direct Supervision

On November 2, 2021, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (“CMS”) finalized the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule for Calendar Year 2022 (the “Final 2022 MPFS” or the “Final Rule”). As we noted in our July article discussing the Proposed 2022 MPFS, CMS made some significant proposed changes to allow for audio-only telehealth in some limited circumstances. In addition, the agency also proposed to enable remote “direct supervision,” which would allow practitioners to supervise clinical staff billing incident to their services as long as they could be available by audio/video communication as necessary.

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[VIDEO] How we think about Healthcare Innovation and what we're seeing in the market right now

We’re inviting you back for a bit of our weekly Partner meeting. This time we’re talking about Healthcare Innovation—what it is, the kind of innovative companies we’re seeing in the market, and what they’re doing that you should know about.

This conversation is especially relevant for those of you looking for emerging trends which may impact the market. (And hey, isn’t that everyone?)

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**Video Post** The OIG is Watching: Why your telehealth or virtual care company should be focused on compliance right now.

We’ve hit the record button during our weekly Partner meeting to talk about the increased scrutiny of telemedicine and virtual care service by the Office of the Inspector General (OIG), as reflected in the latest OIG work Plan and ongoing audits and evaluations.

This conversation is especially relevant for those of you in the telehealth/digital health space, whether you’re a healthcare provider or platform/tech providers.

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2021 Trends and Opportunities for Healthcare Providers, Digital Health, and Life Sciences Innovators

2020 was the year that showed us all that you can’t truly predict what lays ahead. But, for all the surprises of the last year, the industry didn’t collapse, it accelerated along familiar trend lines. So, after a year like 2020, should we even attempt to predict what will happen in 2021? We say yes. And here’s why…

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Carrie Nixon in mHealth Intelligence Discussing the 2021 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule

Nixon Gwilt Law’s Managing Partner, Carrie Nixon, was quoted in an article appearing in mHealth Intelligence discussing the recent changes to Telehealth and Remote Patient Monitoring with the new 2021 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (learn about our take here and here).

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