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Proposed CY 2026 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Rule Signals Support for Digital Health Advancement

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On July 14, 2025, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issued the calendar year (CY) 2026 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (MPFS) Proposed Rule (Proposed Rule). This client alert focuses on the proposed...more

Epstein Becker & Green

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

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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

Polsinelli

Medicare Telehealth Gets Another Temporary Lifeline – Will Congress Make it Permanent?

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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

Winthrop & Weinstine, P.A.

Important Updates on Telehealth Coverage for Medicare Providers

Providers who offer telehealth services to Medicare patients take note: many key telehealth flexibilities that have been in effect since the COVID-19 public health emergency will expire on March 31, 2025. These changes are...more

Baker Donelson

2025 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule: Payment and Overpayment Policies

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On December 9, 2024, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services' (CMS's) Calendar Year 2025 Physician Fee Schedule Final Rule (the Final Rule) was published in the Federal Register. The Final Rule includes noteworthy...more

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

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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

McDermott Will & Schulte

Healthcare Regulatory Check-Up Newsletter | August 2023 Recap

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

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

[Event] 2023 Healthcare Enforcement Compliance Conference - November 5th - 7th, Washington, DC

Hear directly from the enforcement community - Want to gain insight into properly monitoring, detecting, investigating, and managing violations? Join us at HCCA’s Annual Healthcare Enforcement Compliance Conference to...more

Epstein Becker & Green

Telemental Health Laws: Overview - 2022

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Since 2016, Epstein Becker Green (EBG) has researched, compiled, and analyzed state-specific content relating to the regulatory requirements for professional mental/behavioral health practitioners and stakeholders seeking to...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

Holland & Knight LLP

Holland & Knight Health Dose: May 31, 2022

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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. This week's topics include . . ....more

Goodwin

CMS Continues to Modernize by Expanding Reimbursement for Digital Health Services

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The COVID-19 Public Health Emergency (“PHE”) fundamentally changed the healthcare industry, forcing healthcare providers and patients onto their computers and phones to enable continuation of care when patients were mandated...more

Polsinelli

Telehealth: Key Takeaways From The CY2022 PFS Final Rule

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In November 2021, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (“CMS”) issued the Physician Fee Schedule Final Rule (“Final Rule”) which includes several telehealth policy updates that will go into effect in calendar year...more

Rivkin Radler LLP

Medicare Telehealth Use Increased 63-fold in 2020

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A study recently released by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) found that the number of beneficiaries in the traditional Medicare program who used telehealth increased from 840,000 in 2019 to nearly 52.7...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

HHS OIG Studies State Medicaid Programs’ Use of Telehealth

The United States Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (“OIG”) recently issued a report concerning the use of telehealth to render behavioral health services to Medicaid enrollees, calling for...more

Polsinelli

CMS Greenlights Certain Telebehavioral Health Services Beyond the Public Health Emergency and Provides Important Incentives for...

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The COVID-19 Global Pandemic compelled the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (“CMS”) to revamp its approach to regulating telehealth services and temporarily embrace the modality as a practical treatment option. In...more

Foley & Lardner LLP

CMS to Permanently Cover Audio-Only Telemedicine for Mental Health

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...The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has proposed permanent Medicare coverage of audio-only mental health telehealth services. Currently, Medicare covers audio-only telehealth under temporary waivers that...more

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Telehealth Expansion is Here to Stay...And Expand More

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In 2020, Americans locked down and logged on to stay connected to their providers and even to receive new health care services through telehealth. A recent report by FAIR Health found that telehealth claims rose nearly...more

Foley & Lardner LLP

COVID-19: Three Health Care Sectors Still Attracting Investment

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Since President Trump declared a national emergency concerning the Novel Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) outbreak on March 13, 2020, the health care industry has witnessed increased focus by investors on sectors closely tied...more

McDermott Will & Schulte

CMS Updates COVID-19 Infection Control Guidance for Inpatient Hospital Settings

On March 30, 2020, CMS issued updates to its prior QSO memorandum, expanding its infection control and prevention guidance to include hospitals, critical access hospitals and psychiatric hospitals. The updated QSO memorandum...more

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Health Care Update - February 2016 #2

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Martin Shkreli Not the Big Story on the Hill Last Week - Congress’s complex relationship with prescription drugs was on display last week in the House of Representatives. In the House Committee on Oversight and...more

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Health Care Update - November 2015

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Ways & Means Leadership Changes – Health Policy Implications Looming: As Congress pushes forward with a two-year budget deal, and new Speaker Paul Ryan begins his tenure as the top Republican in the House of...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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