{"id":16107,"date":"2020-05-27T11:04:52","date_gmt":"2020-05-27T15:04:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=16107"},"modified":"2020-05-27T11:04:52","modified_gmt":"2020-05-27T15:04:52","slug":"cms-finalized-a-rule-to-expand-telehealth-coverage-for-medicare-advantage-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=16107","title":{"rendered":"CMS finalized a rule to expand telehealth coverage for Medicare Advantage plans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In an effort to encourage Medicare Advantage plans to widen their telehealth options, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services finalized a rule that will allow Medicare Advantage plans to expand their coverage to specialties, including dermatology, psychiatry, cardiology, ophthalmology, and primary care.\u00a0 Since early March, the US government has been eliminating telehealth barriers for Medicare enrollees and this move is the latest to ensure that seniors an access specialty care.\u00a0 Read article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/cms-broadens-telehealth-for-medicare-advantage-patients-2020-5\">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>In an effort to encourage Medicare Advantage plans to widen their telehealth options, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,9,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cms","category-medicare-advantage","category-telehealth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16107","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=16107"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16108,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16107\/revisions\/16108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}