The intent of S. 870 is to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to implement Medicare payment policies designed to improve management of chronic disease, streamline care coordination, and improve quality outcomes without adding to the deficit.
The intent of S. 787 is to require the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation to test the effect of including telehealth services in Medicare health care delivery reform models.
The intent of S. 1016 is to amend Title XVIII of the Social Security Act to expand access to telehealth services, and for other purposes.
The intent of H.R. 2291 is to expand the coverage of telehealth services under the Medicare program, to provide coverage for home-based monitoring for congestive heart failure and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease under such program, and for other purposes.
S. 431 would allow any site administering acute stroke care to be added as an eligible site with no geographic restrictions, but exclusively limited to providing services to treat acute stroke for Medicare patients. H.R 1148 is more limited in its allowances, exclusively allowing only hospitals or mobile units administering telehealth-eligible stroke services to qualify as an eligible site for strictly defned “telehealth-eligible stroke services”.
