{"id":17294,"date":"2020-12-08T09:23:22","date_gmt":"2020-12-08T14:23:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=17294"},"modified":"2020-12-08T09:23:22","modified_gmt":"2020-12-08T14:23:22","slug":"lawmakers-want-to-permanently-expand-medicare-coverage-of-telehealth-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=17294","title":{"rendered":"Lawmakers want to permanently expand Medicare coverage of telehealth services"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to a bipartisan and bicameral group of 49 lawmakers telehealth technology has proved to be a reliable tool for Medicare providers throughout the pandemic.\u00a0 The lawmakers urge House and Senate leaders to use end-of-year legislation to permanently expand Medicare coverage of telehealth services. Read article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fedscoop.com\/medicare-telehealth-expansion-gets-bipartisan-stamp-approval-lawmakers\/\">here\u2026<\/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>According to a bipartisan and bicameral group of 49 lawmakers telehealth technology has proved to be a reliable tool for<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-medicare-general","category-telehealth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17294","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=17294"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17295,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17294\/revisions\/17295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}