Posted on Monday, March 30, 2020 12:48 PM
Late last week, the Senate approved a $2 trillion bill designed to stimulate the economy during the coronavirus pandemic. Included in the bill is language that will allow hospice providers to perform face-to-face encounters via telehealth. This was the greatest request of hospices since this pandemic began.
“Allowing hospice providers to utilize technologies to support the face-to-face encounter requirement — as included in this third stimulus package — is vital to ensuring patients are able to remain on hospice care, that the threat of COVID-19 spread is minimized — particularly among home caregiving staff and vulnerable hospice patients — and that hospices are able to use caregiving staff in the most efficient way possible,” Theresa Forster, vice president for Hospice Policy at the National Association for Home Care & Hospice, told Hospice News. “This is one of our key priorities for legislative action, and we are grateful to members of the Senate and House for including this change in the pending relief package.”
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