Bill > S1016

This bill, the Creating Opportunities Now for Necessary and Effective Care Technologies (CONNECT) for Health Act of 2017, aims to expand access to telehealth services under the Medicare program. The key provisions include: allowing Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) to expand the use of telehealth services; expanding access to home dialysis therapy via telehealth; increasing access to digital tools like telehealth and remote patient monitoring for Medicare Advantage enrollees; covering remote patient monitoring services for certain individuals; allowing rural health clinics and Federally qualified health centers to serve as originating sites and distant sites for telehealth services; and testing models to examine the use of telehealth and remote patient monitoring under Medicare. Overall, the bill seeks to increase the utilization and coverage of telehealth and remote patient monitoring technologies in the Medicare program.

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https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/senate-bill/1016/all-info