Disease prevention and social change, the state, society, and public health in the United States, France, Great Britain and Canada (Russell Sage Foundation, 2007)
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Specifically, we finalized a policy to allow for audio-only services under certain circumstances and revised the regulation at 410.78(a)(3) to permit the use of audio-only equipment for telehealth services furnished to established patients in their homes for purposes of diagnosis, evaluation, or treatment of a mental health disorder (including substance use disorders) if the distant site physician or practitioner is technically capable of using an interactive telecommunications system as defined previously, but the patient is not capable of, or does not consent to, the use of video technology
In the CY 2019 PFS final rule (83 FR 59763), we expanded the criteria for measure removal to include MIPS quality measures that reached an extremely topped out status (for example, a measure with an average mean performance within the 98th to 100th percentile range)