CMT Consulting,LLC

04/05/2025

On March 14, 2025, as part of a spending bill to avert a federal government shutdown, Congress extended COVID-era telehealth “waivers” applicable to Medicare until September 30, 2025. These were originally scheduled to end March 31, 2025.

03/09/2025

Insightful.

As licensure cases are considered and state policies are potentially impacted, understanding around practice requirements and state enforcement processes will continue to increase in importance.

02/27/2025

This will be a mess if not extended.

Photo credit: https://www.flickr.com/photos/chad_k/3767365155https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ (no changes were made) Introduction April 1, 2025, might feel like an April Fool’s joke—but for healthcare providers and patients who rely on Medicare telehealth services, it could be anythi...

01/15/2025

Included HR 10545 is an extension of the major statutory telehealth waivers, but only until March 31, 2025, just an additional three months.

01/08/2025

The RTRC sought to conduct a systematic review of the ways in which telehealth has been shown to address health disparities.

12/11/2024

The digital mental health platforms Alma and Headway notified therapists in a number of states recently that new contracts with UnitedHealth’s Optum subsidiary meant their pay would be cut, stirring a flood of angry responses. The pay cuts for clinicians using these two platforms for UnitedHealth-...

11/08/2024

Interesting and insightful information.

In October, four US Senators sent requests for more information to two of the largest pharmaceutical companies operating in the United States, Eli Lilly and Pfizer. The letters concerned both companies’ recent actions in establishing telehealth direct-to-consumer (DTC) platforms.

10/26/2024

Last month, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (OIG) released a new report regarding remote patient monitoring (RPM), which describes existing federal coverage policies and recent utilization rates, as well as recommending additional oversight of the telehea...

09/12/2024

Biden's new requirements will make it harder for insurers to limit mental health care.

06/26/2024

WOW!

The FBI and HHS have issued a joint alert to healthcare leaders about a social engineering campaign targeting healthcare organizations.

06/13/2024

As Medicare Advantage comes under scrutiny, insurers are bristling at expanding some transparency measures that providers have pushed for in the program.

06/03/2024

UnitedHealth Group (NYSE: UNH) is announcing support for people who may be concerned about their personal data potentially being impacted based on preliminary findings from the ongoing investigation and review of the data involved in the malicious criminal cyberattack on Change Healthcare.