Virtual Care & Telehealth
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AI Summary — Last 7 Days
Virtual care’s VBC role is being pulled in two directions: CMS’ Trump-era proposed restriction on contracted remote patient monitoring staff is drawing provider pushback because it could undermine scalable chronic-care management and ACO/population-health infrastructure, while new evidence suggests movement from FFS Medicare to Medicare Advantage is associated with lower RPM adoption—raising questions about whether capitated incentives are actually translating into home-based monitoring investment. At the same time, enforcement and market signals are tightening the lane for telehealth: DOJ’s $35M MA DME fraud case tied to telemedicine reinforces payer scrutiny of virtual ordering workflows, even as employer-focused primary care/virtual care models such as Included Health–Firefly pursue risk-bearing alternatives outside traditional payer-provider channels ([RPM adoption in MA](https://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMilwFBVV95cUxQSGEzZHR6RVAwUFQzTUtVUmxoaFFLWVllYUYtYlpwd0tZb0hwN3BRSXBvWG5sbHVhalZYcG10YTVLRlZmS2VtNDZEVmNWMGNPSXRaQU5WRDVLX0hGRjlNSjdkYUk3Z3Vwcm9CWlNaR19ZQVRoUFh5V280b09QQk1GUDJUQmtSOVh6MG5rLUdwQkdfWF9fcU
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