{"id":15827,"date":"2020-04-22T13:33:03","date_gmt":"2020-04-22T17:33:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=15827"},"modified":"2020-04-22T13:33:03","modified_gmt":"2020-04-22T17:33:03","slug":"will-increase-in-telehealth-lead-to-more-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=15827","title":{"rendered":"Will increase in telehealth lead to more fraud?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By\u00a0Jackie Drees for <em>Becker&#8217;s Hospital Review<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p>While CMS has relaxed telehealth regulations to expand care during the COVID-19 pandemic, the action may result in a spike in billing fraud, according to an April 22 Kaiser Health News report.<\/p>\n<p>In March, the Trump administration approved $500 million in waivers for Medicare telehealth restrictions, expanding coverage to all Medicare beneficiaries regardless of location. The president then further expanded Medicare coverage by adding 85 additional services covered when delivered via telehealth, including emergency department visits and nursing facility and discharge visits.\u00a0 Continue reading article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beckershospitalreview.com\/telehealth\/will-increase-in-telehealth-lead-to-more-fraud.html\">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><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>(By\u00a0Jackie Drees for Becker&#8217;s Hospital Review) While CMS has relaxed telehealth regulations to expand care during the COVID-19 pandemic, the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,6,9,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-illegal-activities","category-medicare-general","category-medicare-advantage","category-medicare-fraud"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15827","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=15827"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15827\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15828,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15827\/revisions\/15828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}