<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><div class="gmail_default" style="">Here is a well organized fact sheet from CMS regarding <span style="min-width:0px;min-height:0px;color:rgb(50,58,69);font-family:Muli,"Helvetica  Neue",Arial,sans-serif;text-align:center;background-color:rgb(250,250,250)"><span style="min-width:0px;min-height:0px"><span style="min-width:0px;min-height:0px"><span style="min-width:0px;min-height:0px"><i style="font-weight:bold">Medicare coverage and payment of virtual services.  </i>Specific information is provided for Medicare Telehealth Visits, Virtual Check-ins, and E-visits.</span></span></span></span></div><div style="font-size:small;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><a href="https://www.cms.gov/newsroom/fact-sheets/medicare-telemedicine-health-care-provider-fact-sheet" target="_blank">https://www.cms.gov/newsroom/fact-sheets/medicare-telemedicine-health-care-provider-fact-sheet</a> </div><div style="font-size:small;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><p style="min-width:0px;min-height:0px;margin:0px 0px 1.2em;color:rgb(50,58,69);font-family:Muli,"Helvetica  Neue",Arial,sans-serif;background-color:rgb(250,250,250)"><span style="min-width:0px;min-height:0px"><span style="min-width:0px;min-height:0px"><span style="min-width:0px;min-height:0px"><strong style="min-width:0px;min-height:0px"><span style="min-width:0px;min-height:0px">Long-Term Care Nursing Homes Telehealth and Telemedicine Tool Kit</span></strong></span></span></span></p><p style="min-width:0px;min-height:0px;margin:0px 0px 1.2em;color:rgb(50,58,69);font-family:Muli,"Helvetica  Neue",Arial,sans-serif;background-color:rgb(250,250,250)"><span style="min-width:0px;min-height:0px"><span style="min-width:0px;min-height:0px"><span style="min-width:0px;min-height:0px"><span style="min-width:0px;min-height:0px">CMS recently issued an electronic toolkit regarding telehealth and telemedicine for Long Term Care Nursing Home Facilities. Under President Trump’s leadership to respond to the need to limit the spread of community COVID-19, CMS has broadened access to Medicare telehealth services so that beneficiaries can receive a wider range of services from their doctors without having to travel to a healthcare facility. This document contains electronic links to reliable sources of information regarding telehealth and telemedicine, including the significant changes made by CMS over the last week in response to the National Health Emergency.  Most of the information is directed towards providers who may want to establish a permanent telemedicine program, but there is information here that will help in the temporary deployment of a telemedicine program as well. There are specific documents identified that will be useful in choosing telemedicine vendors, equipment, and software, initiating a telemedicine program, monitoring patients remotely, and developing documentation tools. There is also information that will be useful for providers who intend to care for patients through electronic virtual services that may be temporarily used during the COVID-19 pandemic. </span></span></span></span></p><p style="min-width:0px;min-height:0px;margin:0px 0px 1.2em;color:rgb(50,58,69);font-family:Muli,"Helvetica  Neue",Arial,sans-serif;background-color:rgb(250,250,250)"><span style="min-width:0px;min-height:0px"><span style="min-width:0px;min-height:0px"><span style="min-width:0px;min-height:0px"><span style="min-width:0px;min-height:0px"><span style="min-width:0px;min-height:0px"><span style="min-width:0px;min-height:0px"><a href="https://www.cms.gov/files/document/covid-19-nursing-home-telehealth-toolkit.pdf" style="color:rgb(76,44,146);min-width:0px;min-height:0px;background-color:transparent;border-bottom:1px solid rgb(12,36,153);text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank">Toolkit</a></span></span></span></span></span></span></p></div><div style="font-size:small;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">I think this is all for today😁</div>Cathy</div><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>Catherine S. Britain, Executive Director</div>
<div>Telehealth Alliance of Oregon</div><div><a href="mailto:csbritain@gmail.com" target="_blank">csbritain@gmail.com</a><br>541-910-7366</div>
<div><a href="http://www.ortelehealth.org" target="_blank">www.ortelehealth.org</a></div>
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