Amanda Enyeart
Subscribe to Amanda Enyeart's PostsAmanda Enyeart maintains a general health industry and regulatory practice, focusing on fraud and abuse, information technology and digital health matters. Amanda advises health care industry clients in all aspects of software licenses and other agreements for the acquisition electronic health record (EHR) systems and other mission critical health IT. Amanda’s health care IT transactional experience also includes advising clients with respect to software development, maintenance, service and outsourced hosting arrangements, including cloud-computing transactions. Read Amanda Enyeart's full bio.
States Adopt Interstate Compacts, Expand Behavioral Health Access
By Amanda Enyeart, Taylor Hood and Adetoro Olugbemi on Feb 7, 2024
Posted In Digital Health, Employee Benefits, Health and Welfare Plans
Multiple states – including Mississippi, New Jersey and Virginia – have been busy finalizing legislation and rulemaking to adopt interstate compacts and expand behavioral health access. What else have these states been up to in recent weeks? Read more here.
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DEA Further Extends Flexibilities for Controlled-Substance Prescribing via Telemedicine
By Amanda Enyeart, Marshall E. Jackson, Jr., Lisa Schmitz Mazur, Dale C. Van Demark, Patrick Zanayed, Purnima Boominathan, Grayson I. Dimick, Jayda Greco and Rachel Stauffer on Oct 25, 2023
Posted In Employee Benefits, Health and Welfare Plans
The US Drug Enforcement Administration and the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration have further extended flexibilities that allow providers to prescribe controlled substances via telemedicine without first performing an in-person visit. The flexibilities were initially provided during the COVID-19 public health emergency. The extension runs through December 31, 2024. Read more here.
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Teleprescribing of Controlled Substances Temporarily Extended Beyond PHE
By Lisa Schmitz Mazur, Rachel Stauffer, Amanda Enyeart, Jayda Greco, Marika Miller, Grayson I. Dimick, Moyosore Koya, Marshall E. Jackson, Jr., Dale C. Van Demark and Patrick Zanayed on Jun 23, 2023
Posted In Digital Health, Employee Benefits, Health and Welfare Plans
The US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) are extending telehealth flexibilities that allow providers to prescribe controlled substances. While the extension is in place, the DEA indicated that it will be further evaluating its recently proposed rules for post-COVID-19 public health emergency telemedicine prescription of controlled...
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HHS OIG Develops Toolkit to Analyze Telehealth Claims to Assess Program Integrity Risks
By James A. Cannatti III, Amanda Enyeart, Marshall E. Jackson, Jr., Tony Maida, Lisa Schmitz Mazur and Dexter Golinghorst on Jun 13, 2023
Posted In Employee Benefits, Health and Welfare Plans
The US Department of Health and Human Services Office of the Inspector General (HHS OIG) recently unveiled a new toolkit that seeks to help analyze telehealth claims for federal healthcare program integrity risks. It is based on methodologies highlighted in OIG’s September 2022 data brief; the data brief identified billing practices by Medicare providers that...
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Telehealth Trends to Watch: Increased Focus on Privacy and Security
By Lisa Schmitz Mazur, Dale C. Van Demark, Amanda Enyeart and Marshall E. Jackson, Jr. on Apr 19, 2023
Posted In Digital Health, Employee Benefits, Health and Welfare Plans
We expect to see continued focus on privacy and security at the federal and state level. For example, California, Virginia, Colorado, Utah and Connecticut have new privacy laws coming into effect in 2023. As part of our State Law Privacy Video Series, McDermott described how these laws will affect health data and healthcare entities—in particular,...
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Omnibus Bill Extends Medicare Telehealth Flexibilities and HDHP Telehealth Safe Harbor
By Amanda Enyeart, Marshall E. Jackson, Jr., Lisa Schmitz Mazur, Rachel Stauffer, Grayson I. Dimick, Jayda Greco, Abby Higgins, Ashley Ogedegbe and Sarah Raaii on Dec 28, 2022
Posted In Digital Health, Employee Benefits, Health and Welfare Plans
On December 23, 2022, US Congress approved a year-end omnibus legislative package, Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023 (CAA 2023), which consists of all 12 fiscal year 2023 appropriations bills and numerous other provisions, including health policy changes. The healthcare provisions in this omnibus package extend key Medicare telehealth flexibilities and the temporary telehealth safe harbor for...
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Staying Connected: An Update on Medicare Reimbursement for Telehealth Services After the PHE
By Amanda Enyeart, Dawn Helak, Marshall E. Jackson, Jr., Lisa Schmitz Mazur, Dale C. Van Demark, Mara McDermott and Lauren Knizner on Jan 11, 2022
Posted In Employee Benefits, Health and Welfare Plans, Privacy and Data Security
In hopes that the COVID-19 public health emergency (PHE) will soon end, Congress and the administration are evaluating the telehealth expansions and flexibilities put in place to respond to the PHE. As a result, the future for telehealth stakeholders remains uncertain. This article outlines various changes in Medicare telehealth reimbursement policy in effect during the...
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50-State Survey | Rules Governing Telehealth Modalities and Patient-Provider Relationships
By Amanda Enyeart, Dale C. Van Demark, Lisa Schmitz Mazur, Marshall E. Jackson, Jr. and Stacey Callaghan on Sep 29, 2021
Posted In Digital Health, Employee Benefits, Health and Welfare Plans
Telehealth’s state-by-state regulatory patchwork means that healthcare providers must navigate a variety of regulations that govern which types of care can be provided by virtual means, and even what modalities can be used in different care settings. McDermott’s recent 50-state survey explores the standard and requirements that physicians and nurse practitioners must follow when prescribing...
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CMS Addresses Virtual Care Expansion in CY 2022 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Proposal
By Amanda Enyeart, Marshall E. Jackson, Jr., Lisa Schmitz Mazur and Dale C. Van Demark on Sep 15, 2021
Posted In Employee Benefits, Health and Welfare Plans
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services recently published its annual proposed changes to the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule, which include several key telehealth and other virtual care-related proposals. The proposals address long-standing restrictions that have historically limited the use of telehealth and virtual care, including geographic and originating site restrictions, and limitations on audio-only...
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OIG Reports More than $731 Million in Inappropriate Medicare Meaningful Use Payments
By Amanda Enyeart and Lisa Schmitz Mazur on Jul 18, 2017
Posted In Health and Welfare Plans, Privacy and Data Security
Amanda Enyeart and Lisa Schmitz Mazur wrote this bylined article explaining how the HHS Office of Inspector General used a survey by the Electronic Health Records (EHR) Incentive Program run by Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to conclude that CMS made $729 million in inappropriate EHR incentive payments to physicians out of some...
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