{"id":13212,"date":"2019-05-10T08:20:46","date_gmt":"2019-05-10T12:20:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=13212"},"modified":"2019-05-10T08:20:46","modified_gmt":"2019-05-10T12:20:46","slug":"legislation-would-expand-telehealth-services-for-medicare-patients-with-copd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=13212","title":{"rendered":"Legislation would expand telehealth services for Medicare patients with COPD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Jackie Drees for Becker&#8217;s Hospital Review)<\/p>\n<p>Reps. TJ Cox, D-Calif., Mike Thompson, D-Calif., Mike Kelly, R-Pa., and Earl Carter, R-Ga.,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/cox.house.gov\/media\/press-releases\/rep-cox-introduces-bipartisan-legislation-expanding-telehealth-services\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">introduced<\/a>\u00a0legislation that would allow respiratory therapists to serve as telehealth practitioners for Medicare patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.\u00a0 Continue reading <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beckershospitalreview.com\/telehealth\/legislation-would-expand-telehealth-services-for-medicare-patients-with-copd.html\">article here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/senior-woman-frustrated-concerned-help-700x467.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11020\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/senior-woman-frustrated-concerned-help-700x467-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/senior-woman-frustrated-concerned-help-700x467-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/senior-woman-frustrated-concerned-help-700x467.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre>Notice: The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Jackie Drees for Becker&#8217;s Hospital Review) Reps. TJ Cox, D-Calif., Mike Thompson, D-Calif., Mike Kelly, R-Pa., and Earl Carter,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,6,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legislative-update","category-medicare-general","category-telehealth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13212"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13213,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13212\/revisions\/13213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}