by Kelsey Barcomb | Apr 3, 2020
Telehealth has emerged as an important tool in the battle against COVID-19. By allowing health care providers to care for patients so that neither provider nor patient must leave their homes, telehealth facilitates the provision of essential health care services...
by Kelsey Barcomb | Apr 3, 2020
In a continuing effort to combat the COVID-19 crisis, President Trump signed the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act (the CARES Act) into law on March 27, 2020. Building on the Coronavirus Preparedness and Response Supplemental Appropriations Act,...
by Kelsey Barcomb | Mar 27, 2020
On March 17, 2020, the United States Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) published a Declaration in the Federal Register providing immunity from liability under state and federal law to certain individuals and entities using medical countermeasures in the...
by Kelsey Barcomb | Mar 24, 2020
The COVID-19 crisis has forced the Department of Health and Human Services’ (“HHS”) Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (“CMS”) to rethink Medicare’s stringent and limiting telehealth rules. As federal and state governments struggle to slow the spread of the...
