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The Health Record - Healthcare Law Insights, V 2, Issue 6, June 2025

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC on 6/9/2025

Welcome to our sixth issue of 2025 of The Health Record -- our healthcare law insights e-newsletter. In this edition, we look at the impact of supply chain and tariff issues on the industry, the veto of Florida's...more

Telehealth Cliff Averted, for Now (But September is Six Months Away)

Epstein Becker & Green on 3/26/2025

The potential plunge off the telehealth cliff that we warned you about in our March 3, 2025, blog post has been averted, for now....more

Medicare Telehealth Waivers Extended Through September 2025

Baker Donelson on 3/21/2025

On March 15, 2025, Congress passed and President Trump signed into law a Continuing Resolution that temporarily extends certain critical programs and appropriations through September 30, 2025. The legislation, titled the...more

No Longer on Edge of the Telehealth Cliff (For Now): Congress Extends Medicare Telehealth Flexibilities for Additional 6 Months

BakerHostetler on 3/21/2025

As outlined in our prior client alert, the healthcare industry can breathe a temporary sigh of relief as Congress has once again acted to extend for an additional six months the Medicare telehealth flexibilities implemented...more

Medicare Telehealth Flexibilities Extended through September 30, 2025

Robinson+Cole Health Law Diagnosis on 3/18/2025

On March 14, 2025, as part of a spending bill to avert a federal government shutdown, Congress extended COVID-era telehealth “waivers” applicable to Medicare until September 30, 2025. These were originally scheduled to end...more

DEA Releases Long-Awaited Telehealth Special Registration Proposal, but Adoption Is Uncertain

McDermott+ on 1/20/2025

On January 15, 2025, the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) released a proposed rule entitled Special Registrations for Telemedicine and Limited State Telemedicine Registrations. This proposed rule would establish three...more

Some COVID-Era Medicare Telehealth Waivers Extended through March 31

Rivkin Radler LLP on 1/17/2025

The American Relief Act, 2025, signed into law on December 21, included a short-term extension of certain telehealth waivers that went into effect in the early days of the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency. These waivers, for...more

UPDATE: Telehealth “Cliff” Pushed Back until April 1, 2025

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP on 1/6/2025

Congress narrowly avoided hurdling off the telehealth “cliff” Bradley previously reported on in this post with the passing of the American Relief Act, 2025 on December 21, 2024...more

Congress Extends Telehealth Flexibilities for Two More Years

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP on 12/19/2024

With only two weeks remaining in the year, Congress is considering a government funding deal (the “Further Continuing Appropriations and Disaster Relief Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2025” or the “Bill”) that includes a...more

Deadline Approaches for Expiring Medicare Telehealth Waivers: What Providers Should Know

Snell & Wilmer on 12/19/2024

During the COVID-19 pandemic, both federal and state governments enacted a host of laws and implemented flexibilities to ensure health care providers, hospitals, and health systems could move traditional brick-and-mortar care...more

Update: Telehealth “Cliff” Looming at End of 2024

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP on 12/18/2024

As 2024 comes to a close, the telehealth space continues to be uncharted territory. When the COVID-19 pandemic began, the ability to deliver telehealth expanded as providers sought to provide quality care unrestricted by...more

Is the End Near? Medicare Telehealth Flexibilities Set to Expire at the End of the Year

Dinsmore & Shohl LLP on 12/13/2024

The temporary telehealth flexibilities that Medicare patients and providers have become accustomed to since the COVID-19 pandemic are set to expire December 31, 2024. The Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2023 extended many...more

The Impact of the Proposed 2025 Physician Fee Schedule on Parity and Delivery

Ankura on 11/22/2024

Healthcare in the United States is undergoing significant changes, particularly in the areas of reimbursement and coverage of telehealth, substance use disorders (SUDs), and mental health services. The proposed 2025 Physician...more

DEA Further Extends Telemedicine Prescribing Flexibilities through December 2025

Dinsmore & Shohl LLP on 11/21/2024

The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) is once again extending telemedicine prescribing flexibilities for controlled substances. This latest extension, which is now the third extension of such flexibilities originally...more

DEA and HHS Extend COVID-19 Telemedicine Prescribing Flexibilities Again

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati on 11/20/2024

The federal Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) have extended COVID-19 telemedicine flexibilities for prescribing controlled substances. Until December 31, 2025, a...more

DEA Extends Telehealth Lifeline for Patients

Robinson+Cole Health Law Diagnosis on 11/18/2024

On November 15, 2024, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and the Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) jointly announced an extension of current COVID-era tele-prescribing flexibilities for another year – through...more

Hospital and Health Systems Reimbursement Check - NOVEMBER 2024

Ropes & Gray LLP on 11/5/2024

Ropes & Gray attorneys share their analysis of administrative and court litigation, regulatory developments, key developments affecting federal program payments to hospitals and health systems, and other reimbursement-related...more

Update: Federal and State Agencies Release Telehealth-Related Updates

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP on 10/29/2024

Following the telehealth boom initiated by the COVID-19 pandemic, agencies continue to contend with competing interests in the telehealth space. Current legislation on both state and federal levels indicates that while these...more

Healthcare Authority Newsletter - September 2024 #2

Arnall Golden Gregory LLP on 9/23/2024

News Briefs - Licensure Compact Aims to Allow PAs to Practice in Other States - By 2028, the nation as a whole will be short some 100,000 critical health care workers, according to a new report....more

CMS Proposes Extending COVID-Era Telehealth and Supervision Flexibilities through CY 2025

Baker Donelson on 7/30/2024

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) proposed to extend a number of COVID-era regulatory flexibilities related to telehealth, remote services, and supervision in the CY 2025 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (PFS)...more

This Week From the Hill (June 16 – 22, 2024)

Groom Law Group, Chartered on 6/18/2024

Each week while Congress is in session, our Policy team delivers a key update to highlight a topical benefits, health, or retirement news item from the Hill, such as a newly introduced bill, a summary of a committee hearing,...more

Exploring the Virtual Care Policy Landscape One Year Post-PHE

McDermott+ on 5/15/2024

May 11, 2024, marked one year since the end of the COVID-19 public health emergency (PHE), and not much has changed in Medicare telehealth policy. We are still operating under temporary waivers and flexibilities and, as a...more

Healthcare Authority Newsletter - May 2024 #2

Arnall Golden Gregory LLP on 5/13/2024

News Briefs - Groups Urge Appeals Court to Revive Drug Price Negotiation Suit - Healthcare and drug industry groups urged a U.S. appeals court to revive their challenge to a law requiring manufacturers to negotiate the prices...more

Holland & Knight Health Dose: April 16, 2024

Holland & Knight LLP on 4/17/2024

Holland & Knight Health Dose is an in-depth weekly dose of legislative and regulatory insights to keep stakeholders abreast of happenings in Washington, D.C., impacting the health sector....more

SAMHSA Final Rule Codifies Opioid Treatment Program Telehealth and Take-Home Medication Flexibilities

Goodwin on 3/1/2024

On February 2, 2024, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued a Final Rule that expands access to medications for the treatment of opioid use disorder (OUD) via telehealth modalities and “take-home” doses....more

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