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The Health Record - Healthcare Law Insights, V 2, Issue 4, April 2025

Welcome to our fourth issue of 2025 of The Health Record -- our healthcare law insights e-newsletter. In this edition, we look at prior authorization transparency and physician decision-making; the impact of Medicaid cuts...more

Epstein Becker & Green

Sitting Atop a Telehealth Cliff?

Once again, Congress is quickly approaching a telehealth cliff. Without passing additional legislation, current Medicare telehealth flexibilities will expire on March 31, 2025....more

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Regulatory Implications of the Continuing Resolution Healthcare Package

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Earlier this week, Congress released the text of a continuing resolution that includes a more-robust-than-anticipated healthcare package. While the bill’s primary purpose is to keep the government open through March 14, 2025,...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Congress Extends Telehealth Flexibilities for Two More Years

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

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

Update: Telehealth “Cliff” Looming at End of 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

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Another Trip to the Buffet: Highlights from the CY 2025 OPPS Final Reg

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As mentioned last week, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently put out a large buffet of regs – too many to digest in one blog post. While we focused on the Calendar Year (CY) 2025 Physician Fee Schedule...more

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Virtual Care Policy Update: What to Expect in Lame Duck

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The Consolidated Appropriations Act (CAA), 2023 (Public Law 117-328), signed into law on December 29, 2022, extended certain key virtual care flexibilities instituted during the COVID-19 public health emergency (PHE) through...more

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Medicare FFS Regs: Thrills and Chills Under the Trump and Biden Administrations

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Happy Halloween! In the health policy world, there are two things on everyone’s mind this spooky season: the upcoming election and the major calendar year (CY) 2025 Medicare fee-for-service (FFS) final regs that should be...more

McDermott Will & Schulte

Trending in Telehealth: October 7 – 14, 2024

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Trending in Telehealth highlights state legislative and regulatory developments that impact the healthcare providers, telehealth and digital health companies, pharmacists, and technology companies that deliver and facilitate...more

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Trending in Telehealth: May 28 – June 3, 2024

Trending in Telehealth highlights state legislative and regulatory developments that impact the healthcare providers, telehealth and digital health companies, pharmacists and technology companies that deliver and facilitate...more

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Healthcare Preview for the Week of: May 13, 2024

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Both chambers of Congress are out of session today and return for the rest of the week. Most healthcare priorities remain out of the congressional spotlight this week, but telehealth is still top of mind. As we...more

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McDermottPlus Check-Up: October 6, 2023

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THIS WEEK’S DOSE - Uncharted Territory in the House: The House voted to remove Rep. McCarthy (R-CA) as Speaker of the House, then recessed until at least October 11, when the House is slated to reconvene to elect a new...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

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

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

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Key Medicare Issues to Watch in Lame Duck Session

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

Lathrop GPM

Changing Telehealth Rules Raise More Questions Than Answers

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Nearly two years into the COVID-19 pandemic the landscape of virtual health care has changed dramatically. Services offered via telehealth exploded as the virus swept through the country and patients were unable to seek care...more

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Grassley Finance Committee Agenda Highlights Oversight

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Senator Charles "Chuck" Grassley, Chairman of the Senate Finance committee which has jurisdiction over Medicare and Medicaid as well as taxation and other revenue measures, has less than 18 months left in his tenure as...more

Foley & Lardner LLP

Health Care Policy Newsletter - July 2018 pt 2

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Foley & Lardner LLP’s (“Foley”) Bipartisan Public Policy Team is pleased to share our “Public Policy Weekly* Health Care Newsletter” in which we compile the latest Health Care policy news and legislation. *Please note that we...more

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Telemedicine Reimbursement and Regulation: an Overview for Providers

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The advent of telemedicine supplies a unique and convenient gateway for patients and providers to connect. The benefits of telemedicine range from increased access to care for patients, to increased efficiency and lower...more

Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck

Telemedicine on the Rise: Increased Deployment by Veterans Administration, MACRA, Plus Potential Expansion Under Legislative...

Telemedicine has the potential to disrupt the health care delivery system by providing access to care at a lower cost than face-to-face visits. Telemedicine incorporates remote communications into the provision of health care...more

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ML Strategies 2017 Outlook: Health Care

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If Congress chose to do nothing other than what it absolutely has to address, it would have three very consuming legislative policy issues on its plate in 2017: the various User Fee Acts (UFAs) reauthorization, the...more

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Health Care Update - July 2015 #2

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Congress Slowly Works on Budget Reconciliation; ACA Reform Proposals Still Up in the Air - The FY 2016 budget resolution, which was agreed to by Congress this past April, included broad reconciliation instructions...more

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Telehealth and Health IT Policy: Considerations for Stakeholders

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In recent months, as the conversation about reforming the health care system has shifted to achieving greater delivery system efficiencies, cost containment, and patient satisfaction, the role of health care...more

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