{"id":1642,"date":"2016-01-11T11:43:39","date_gmt":"2016-01-11T16:43:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=1642"},"modified":"2016-03-01T09:06:40","modified_gmt":"2016-03-01T14:06:40","slug":"insurers-add-telemedicine-coverage-while-congress-ponders-options","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=1642","title":{"rendered":"Insurers Add Telemedicine Coverage While Congress Ponders Options"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As Congress considers Medicare expansion to include telemedicine coverage, several major insurers are moving ahead with inclusion in their plan offerings. Humana recently announced plans to\u00a0expand telemedicine in its Medicare Advantage offerings in 12 states:\u00a0Arizona, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Michigan, Missouri, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Washington and West Virginia. In an article posted on Politico&#8217;s Morning eHealth page,\u00a0<span class=\"vcard\">David Pittman examines the status of this growing level of interest in the remote practice of medicine. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/tipsheets\/morning-ehealth\/2016\/01\/politicos-morning-ehealth-telemedicines-use-in-medicare-advantage-biden-talks-tumor-sequencing-and-data-onc-faca-talks-ehr-tool-212103\" target=\"_blank\">Read the article here&#8230;<\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<pre><strong>Notice<\/strong>: The \u201c<strong>Read more<\/strong>\u2026\u201d link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid\u00a0on 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<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Congress considers Medicare expansion to include telemedicine coverage, several major insurers are moving ahead with inclusion in their plan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,14,6,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legislative-update","category-medical-technology","category-medicare-general","category-medicare-advantage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1642","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1642"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1643,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1642\/revisions\/1643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}