{"id":15496,"date":"2020-03-19T11:10:48","date_gmt":"2020-03-19T15:10:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=15496"},"modified":"2020-03-19T11:10:48","modified_gmt":"2020-03-19T15:10:48","slug":"medicare-expands-telehealth-services-during-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=15496","title":{"rendered":"Medicare expands telehealth services during pandemic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was announced on March 17<sup>th<\/sup> that Medicare is expanding coverage for telemedicine nationwide so that millions of American seniors can get health care at home and avoid the coronavirus. According to Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar, \u201cProviders will be allowed to offer these telehealth benefits to Medicare beneficiaries at a lower cost than traditional services.\u201d Read article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.webmd.com\/lung\/news\/20200318\/medicare-expands-telemedicine-during-pandemic\">here\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/file000828588926-700x560-phone.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-9697\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/file000828588926-700x560-phone-300x240.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/file000828588926-700x560-phone-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/file000828588926-700x560-phone.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre><strong>Notice:<\/strong> 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>It was announced on March 17th that Medicare is expanding coverage for telemedicine nationwide so that millions of American seniors<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,20,6,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-emerging-health-issues","category-health-care-redesign","category-medicare-general","category-telehealth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15496","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=15496"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15497,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15496\/revisions\/15497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}