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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

A Win for Virtual Care: Telehealth Flexibilities Remain in Place (For Now)

Miles & Stockbridge P.C. on 4/8/2025

The short-term spending bill President Donald Trump signed into law last month included the extension of several telehealth waivers by entering a new termination date of Sept. 30 into the existing law. These waivers, called...more

Executive Orders and Policy Updates

Jones Day on 4/3/2025

Since President Trump's inauguration, the Trump administration has issued a number of executive orders and policy actions with potential impacts for the life sciences industry. Notable actions include rescinding Biden-era...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 Gets Another Temporary Lifeline – Will Congress Make it Permanent?

Polsinelli on 3/18/2025

On March 15, 2025, President Trump signed a continuing resolution to avert a government shutdown, which included a critical six-month extension of Medicare telehealth flexibilities through September 30, 2025. This six-month...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

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

COVID-19 Telehealth Flexibilities Extending and Enduring

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP on 1/8/2025

In the wake of an end of year filled with intense negotiations and political wrangling, Congress has successfully enacted the American Relief Act, 2025 ("the Budget Bill" or "legislation"), narrowly averting a government...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

Medicare Telehealth Reimbursement Update

Tucker Arensberg, P.C. on 11/21/2024

Our Introduction to Telehealth, Technology and Federal Enforcement chapter was published in the Thomson Reuters 2025 Health Law Handbook. It reviewed a number of telehealth Medicare revisions, both permanent and temporary,...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

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

Congress Seeks to Extend COVID-19 Telehealth Flexibilities Through 2026 and Expand Reimbursement

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP on 6/3/2024

On May 16, 2024, the Subcommittee on Health of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce (the “Subcommittee”) announced that it advanced the Telehealth Modernization Act of 2024 (H.R. 7623) as amended (the “Bill”) during 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

Healthcare Issues to Watch Following the FY2024 Spending Deal

Foley Hoag LLP on 4/9/2024

Six months into the fiscal year, Congress has finally passed FY2024 appropriations. It was a painstaking process, which many expected to include policy victories that both sides could celebrate. Instead, the spring work...more

Telehealth and the Evolving Landscape of Medicare Requirements

Verrill on 2/12/2024

Telehealth is an important and growing part of healthcare delivery that a wide range of patients and healthcare providers have come to rely on for access to care and continuity of treatment. Telehealth took on an especially...more

2024 Senior Housing Market Outlook

ArentFox Schiff on 1/23/2024

Could 2024 bring renewed growth for the skilled nursing and senior housing market or will proposed regulatory changes and the lingering effects of COVID-19 stymie hopes for a potential rebound? With rising occupancy rates...more

2024: The Year of the Telehealth Cliff

McDermott Will & Schulte on 1/15/2024

What does December 31, 2024, mean to you? New Year’s Eve? Post-2024 election? Too far away to know? Our answer: December 31, 2024, is when we will go over a “telehealth cliff” if Congress fails to act before that date,...more

Looking Forward: Top Policy Areas for 2024

McDermott+ on 1/4/2024

Happy New Year! As we enter 2024, we want to lay out some of the main regulatory issues (both new and old) that McDermott+Consulting will be tracking over the next year. While these may evolve, we think they are still...more

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