USTelecom Asks FCC to Clarify Payment Rules in Rural Telehealth Compensation Order
Rural telehealth program participants told the FCC about "significant problems" with how the median rural payment rate will work under new rules released last month (see 1908200062), said a filing posted Monday in docket 17-310. USTelecom recommended exemptions from the…
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median rural rate, rather than require providers to always follow a waiver process. The group asked to clarify a rule indirectly prohibiting service providers from using commission- or incentive-based consultants or third parties to help sell to healthcare providers who may decide to participate in the programs. Vice President-Policy and Advocacy Lynn Follansbee and executives from AT&T, CenturyLink, Frontier, Alaska Communications and Consolidated met Wednesday with Wireline Bureau staff.