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Demands for repayment of Medicaid spending can drain the assets a person leaves behind, depending on where they lived.

At a special listening session this morning at American Telemedicine Association Annual Conference & Expo, stakeholders were invited to voice their concerns over a controversial DEA proposed rule. The DEA proposal would discontinue the ability for telemedicine prescribing of controlled substances when the patient never had an in-person exam, something that was central to

Fran Ruhl's family received a startling letter from the Iowa Department of Human Services four weeks after she died in January 2022.

Depending on where they lived, demands for repayment can drain the assets that a patient on Medicaid leaves behind after they die. Iowa aggressively collects "clawback" funds.

The American Hospital Association has come out in support of bipartisan legislation, introduced in the House of Representatives, that would require the Department of Health and Human Services, Medicare Payment Advisory Commission, and Medicaid and CHIP Payment and Access Commission to study expanded telehealth use during the COVID-19 pandemic and recommend potential