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Important Updates on Telehealth Coverage for Medicare Providers

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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

King & Spalding

CMS Issues Final 2025 Calendar Year Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Final Rule

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On November 1, 2024, CMS issued a rule finalizing changes to Medicare payments under the Physician Fee Schedule (PFS) and other Medicare Part B policies effective on or after January 1, 2025 (the Final Rule). Section 1848 of...more

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Exploring the Virtual Care Policy Landscape One Year Post-PHE

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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

Benesch

2024 Outlook: Behavioral Health Trends

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Healthcare systems are facing significant challenges in recruiting and retaining talent within the burgeoning field of behavioral health services, primarily due to competition from telehealth providers and inconsistent...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Tele-Prescribing Flexibilities Extended Again in Second Temporary Rule

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This month, the Drug Enforcement Administration (“DEA”), in conjunction with the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (“SAMHSA”), issued a Second Temporary Rule further extending the telemedicine waivers...more

Dickinson Wright

DEA Reverses Course and Extends Telehealth Prescriptions of Controlled Substances

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Reversing previously proposed rules, the DEA recently issued new guidance allowing the continued use of telehealth when prescribing controlled substances following the end of the Covid-19 public health emergency (“PHE”)....more

Rivkin Radler LLP

Fraud Week: CT Behavioral Health Providers Sentenced

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We’ll wrap up this edition of Fraud Week with a look at two Connecticut behavioral health providers, one bad and one very, very bad. First, Alicia Thompkins, a social worker from Hartford, pleaded guilty on April 27 to...more

Baker Donelson

Texas Medical Board Proposes New Rules on Heels of Relaxed Telemedicine Laws

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The Texas Medical Board recently proposed changes to its telemedicine regulations (22 Tex. Admin. Code §§ 174.1 – 174.12) to follow the amendments to Section 111 of the Texas Occupations Code governing the practice of...more

Alston & Bird

A&B Healthcare Week in Review

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I. REGULATIONS, NOTICES, & GUIDANCE - On March 29, 2016, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a final rule entitled, “Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Programs: Mental Health Parity and...more

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Florida Board of Medicine allows prescribing controlled substances through telemedicine for psychiatric treatment

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The Florida Board of Medicine has changed its Standards for Telemedicine Practice by allowing controlled substances to be prescribed through the use of telemedicine only for the treatment of psychiatric disorders. ...more

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Six Ways to Take Advantage of New Hampshire’s New Telemedicine Law

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A physician in New Hampshire can now establish a valid doctor-patient relationship without needing a prior in-person exam. This is among several recent changes in New Hampshire’s telemedicine laws that offer new opportunities...more

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