30 eastern. Earlier today, Health Care Experts testified on the benefits of tell medicine technology. And how it can help better manage the care of medicare patients. Thises was held by the Senate Finance committee. Sen. Hatch meeting will come to order. I would like to welcome everyone to this mornings meeting on bipartisan policies to care for patients with chronic conditions. It was almost exactly 2 years ago today we reformed a Bipartisan Working Group cochaired by senators isakson and warner to work on legislation to address these issues. That working group spent many months listening to stakeholders in the health care community, both in person and through more than 850 formally submitted comments. In december 2015, the working Group Released a comprehensive policy options document. In october of last year we issued a legislative discussion draft. Soon after that, cms finalized 4 of our policy proposals in its 2017 medicare schedule role, and 2 positions from our discussion draft