Medicare exploring ways to enable reimbursement for telehealth Diabetes Prevention Programs

In response to a letter sent late last October by 19 senators, CMS officials are reportedly looking at allowing Medicare reimbursement for Diabetes Prevention Programs that use telehealth and mHealth.  The senators wrote” A Medicare beneficiary’s access to the life-improving program should not, and cannot, be determined solely by the zip code in which he or she lives.” Read article here…

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