Thune, Klobuchar re-introduce telehealth bill
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Sen. John Thune, R-S.D., and Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., this week re-introduced legislation to expand the use of telehealth technology under Medicare to reduce hospital re-admissions in rural and underserved communities across the nation.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Sen. John Thune, R-S.D., and Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., this week re-introduced legislation to expand the use of telehealth technology under Medicare to reduce hospital re-admissions in rural and underserved communities across the nation.
The bipartisan Fostering Independence Through Technology (FITT) Act (S. 596) would create a pilot program to provide budget neutral incentives for home health agencies across the country to use remote patient monitoring (RPM), to better monitor Medicare beneficiaries, improve health outcomes, and reduce Medicare expenditures.
Thune and Klobuchar’s bill would require the secretary of Health and Human Services to create pilot projects providing incentives for home health agencies to purchase and utilize remote patient monitoring and communications technologies. The technology would establish performance targets based on historic Medicare spending. The performance targets would measure success both through health outcomes for Medicare beneficiaries and savings under Medicare due to the technology.
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