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On Dec. 1, 2020, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a press release about the Calendar Year 2021 Physician Fee Schedule (CY 2021 PFS) Final Rule titled “Trump Administration Finalizes Permanent Expansion of Medicare Telehealth Services and Improved Payment for Time Doctors Spend with Patients.” Because there has been misunderstanding about what this means, I’m clarifying it here.
The CY 2021 PFS Final Rule permanently adds nine billing codes to the Medicare telehealth services list. That’s it. That’s what “Finalizes Permanent Expansion of Telehealth Services” means. CMS is also amending existing language to ensure we can keep using smartphones for telehealth.
To be clear, there are other…
Marc Bennett
President and CEO, Comagine Health
Co-chairman, Salt Lake Chamber Health Care Policy Committee
Andrew Croshaw
CEO, Leavitt Partners
Co-chairman, Salt Lake Chamber HealthCare Policy Committee
Dave Davis
President, Utah Retail Merchants Association
As we weather a public health crisis together and look forward to its conclusion, words like “virus” and “vaccine” have become almost routine in our daily conversation. While…
We recently sat down with Comagine Health’s medical director for systemwide quality improvement, Dr. Sarah Woolsey, to talk about the importance of infection prevention during COVID-19.
Dr. Woolsey is a board-certified family medicine physician with over 20 years of experience caring for underserved populations.
How is COVID-19 changing the field of infection prevention?
Let’s start at the beginning. What is infection prevention? Infection prevention is an…