Policy Letter to Seema Verma on Telehealth and Remote Monitoring Policies in the Proposed CY 2021 Physician Fee Schedule

UCSF’s Center for Digital Health Innovation provides comments on the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ proposed policies on Medicare telehealth services and remote monitoring services as part of the proposed calendar year 2021 revisions to the Physician Fee Schedule. CDHI describes the immediate impacts on one the nation’s leading academic medical centers and digital health innovators trying to provide telehealth and remote monitoring services at the speed and intensity of COVID-19. The systemic benefits also extend well beyond COVID-19 and the current public health emergency. The conclusion is clear: Medicare policy should reimburse such synchronous and asynchronous services because they are critical to enable better care, better health, and better value.