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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Healthcare Regulatory Check-Up Newsletter | May 2023 Recap

McDermott Will & Schulte on 6/23/2023

This issue of McDermott’s Healthcare Regulatory Check-Up highlights significant regulatory activity for May 2023. We discuss several criminal and civil enforcement actions that involve violations of the False Claims Act (FCA)...more

What Physician Organizations Need to Know: Key Considerations for the End of the PHE

Morgan Lewis on 5/12/2023

As the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency comes to an end on May 11, various regulatory flexibilities simultaneously expire, including certain waivers issued by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, among other...more

The Status of 10 Key CMS Waivers Affecting Health Care Practitioners Following the Expiration of the COVID Public Health Emergency...

Pullman & Comley - Connecticut Health Law on 5/3/2023

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) used its emergency waiver authority to relax many aspects of health care delivery during the federal Public Health Emergency for COVID-19 (PHE) to allow health care...more

End of COVID-19 Emergency: Legal Implications for Healthcare Providers

McGuireWoods LLP on 5/2/2023

On Jan. 30, 2023, President Joe Biden announced that the COVID-19 public health emergency (PHE) will end May 11, 2023. Under the PHE, the federal government implemented a range of modifications and waivers impacting Medicare,...more

Two Weeks’ Notice for the Public Health Emergency: What’s Next for Telehealth

Husch Blackwell LLP on 5/1/2023

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has announced its plan to end the Federal Public Health Emergency (PHE) for COVID-19 on May 11, 2023. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, emergency declarations, legislation, and...more

The Expiration of the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency: Part II – Impact on the Provision of Medical Services via Telehealth

Bodman on 4/26/2023

As announced by the White House on January 30, 2023, the public health emergency (PHE) is set to end on May 11, 2023. The end of the PHE also brings an end to several flexibilities that were implemented that impact telehealth...more

Themes from American Health Law Association’s 2023 Institute on Medicare and Medicaid Payment Issues

Weintraub Tobin on 3/28/2023

I am fresh back from Baltimore, Maryland, where I was on the faculty of AHLA’s annual Institute on Medicare and Medicaid Payment Issues. I have been on the faculty of this program for a dozen years, and am always thrilled to...more

McDermott Health 2023 Annual Report - Digital Health: 2022 Year in Review

McDermott Will & Schulte on 3/21/2023

Digital health is one of the fast-growing segments of the healthcare market, with patients, clinicians and regulators increasingly aligned behind the opportunities that digitization presents. Over the last three years,...more

COVID-19 PHE Ending on May 11

Rivkin Radler LLP on 2/20/2023

As many of our readers are no doubt already aware, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced on February 9 that the COVID-19 public health emergency (PHE) will end on May 11. The announcement gave payers,...more

While the Public Health Emergency (PHE) is Projected to End May 11, Medicare Telehealth Coverage Expansions Were Extended Through...

Baker Donelson on 2/14/2023

President Biden recently announced that his administration plans to end the COVID-19 PHE on May 11, 2023. This provides more clarity about the long-anticipated end date for certain telehealth waivers and enforcement...more

Finding Our Way Out of the Pandemic Haze: What Telehealth Tools Are Medicare Providers Allowed to Keep, and Which Must They Leave...

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP on 11/30/2022

During the COVID-19 pandemic, Medicare coverage expanded to include a vast arsenal of tools that help patients access medical services while keeping patients and practitioners safe. Many of these tools involve telehealth...more

Wake Me Up When the PHE Ends

Morgan Lewis - Health Law Scan on 11/21/2022

Another year has come to pass, and it seems the federal Public Health Emergency (PHE) will remain in place for at least the next five months. Why? As the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has continuously...more

Key Medicare Issues to Watch in Lame Duck Session

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP on 9/19/2022

Washington, D.C. is currently focused on a September continuing resolution (CR) to keep the federal government funded, but it is worth looking ahead to the broader health care horizon and the key Medicare issues that await...more

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