The number of telebehavioral health visits provided to Medicare beneficiaries increased by 32x — or by 3,090% — in 2020 compared to 2019. That’s according to a new report released by the U.S. Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE). The report analyzed claims data from the […]
Recently announced changes to Medicare telebehavioral health coverage will impact the entire industry whether providers contract with the program or not. The move from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) marks an acceleration of telehealth on top of staking out a point-of-no-return for the industry’s progression toward digital adoption. CMS announced at the […]
The Biden administration on Thursday handed down a deadline for health care providers to get their workers vaccinated. This comes at a time in the behavioral health industry where many providers struggle to fully staff up their operations in the face of a massive health care staff shortage. Some industry insiders believe new federal rules […]
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services issued a final rule that it says promotes wider use of telehealth in the behavioral health industry. On Tuesday, the federal health care regulator announced its final rule on the Physician Fee Schedule for Medicare payments for the calendar year 2022. In it, CMS eliminates restrictions on where […]
Chiquita Brooks-LaSure, the administrator for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, said that the top federal health care regulatory agency’s focus is on promoting health equity. Brooks-LaSure twice invoked the late American civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr. to frame improving access to health care, specifically behavioral health, as a right of Americans. […]
Much of the nation’s behavioral health care has gone virtual since the beginning of the pandemic. And while it has been a convenient way to ensure that care goes uninterrupted, there is still room for improvement for states to strengthen their telehealth capacities for Medicaid enrollees. That was what the Office of Inspector General (OIG) […]
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