HIA’s Executive Director, Brett Meeks, spoke with Inside Health Policy about telehealth flexibilities in the new CMS alternative payment model TEAM as part of its final Calendar Year 2025 Inpatient Prospective Payment System rule.
Brett Meeks, executive director of the Health Innovation Alliance, said the TEAM telehealth flexibilities show CMS believes telehealth can be a helpful tool to deliver care. But the data CMS generates from the TEAM model could help or hurt the case for telehealth flexibilities under Medicare more broadly, depending on what the numbers say, he added.
“We shouldn’t forget how much authority CMS has in [its Innovation Center] because this is a mandatory model. It’s going to impact a lot of providers,” Meeks said.