Other Regulations
Telehealth
- NAACOS Policy Principles for Broader Telehealth Coverage
- NAACOS endorses the Protecting Access to Post-COVID-19 Telehealth Act of 2020 (H.R. 7663)
- NAACOS writes Taskforce for Telehealth Policy on the need to expand telehealth use in ACOs
- NAACOS supports expanding telehealth coverage after the COVID-19 public health emergency in two letters
- CMS publishes telehealth factsheet
- NAACOS has also developed a Telehealth FAQ to assist ACOs using telehealth services during the COVID-19 crisis

- View our on-demand webinar, Using Telehealth to Combat COVID-19

- NAACOS and seven others urge CMS to count diagnoses obtained from audio-only telehealth services for risk adjustment purposes
- NAACOS and 13 others write Congress to address telehealth during the COVID-19 public health emergency
- NAACOS supported the CONNECT for Health Act of 2019
- NAACOS advocates for one-sided ACOs to have access to telehealth in revised legislation
- NAACOS asks FCC to expand eligibility of the COVID-19 Telehealth Program
- NAACOS was supportive of wider use of remote patient monitoring in the 2019 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule
- NAACOS supports FCC pilot to expand telehealth to low-income consumers and joins other groups in asking for changes
Data
- NAACOS writes CMS on implementation of the ADT-sharing requirement
- NAACOS Applauds New Medicare Requirement on Hospitalization Alerts
- NAACOS on-demand webinar: Leveraging CMS Data - Taking Advantage Upcoming Opportunities to Help Your ACO's Work

- Joint letter to CMS asked the agency to finalize requirement to share ADT feeds with some changes
- NAACOS responds to request for information on requiring hospitals to share Admissions, Transfer and Discharge data as a Condition of Participation in Medicare
- NAACOS supports coalition efforts to require sharing of ADT feeds
- CMS finalizes rule around discharge planning
- NAACOS explains how CMS’s eligibility check system can benefit ACOs and care coordination
- NAACOS submits comments in response to CMS’s Request for Information on Establishing a Healthcare Sector Innovation and Investment Workgroup
- NAACOS provides detailed recommendations to CMS on how to enhance program reports and files
- NAACOS supports coalition efforts to require sharing of ADT feeds
Health IT
- NAACOS summary of final health IT "Information Blocking" rules

- NAACOS responds to the 2020–2025 Federal Health IT Strategic Plan
- NAACOS filed public comments to CMS and ONC responding to proposed rules on greater health information exchange
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