Hospice News October 1, 2025
The regulatory flexibilities related to telehealth that the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) implemented during the COVID-19 pandemic have expired.
This includes the ability of hospices to perform patient re-certification face-to-face encounters via telehealth. Also expiring are waivers that expanded the scope of practitioners eligible to provide telehealth services, as well as flexibilities that removed geographic requirements and expanded originating sites for telehealth services, including or federally qualified health centers and rural health clinics.
The government’s failure to extend or make permanent the telehealth re-certification waiver is a “grave mistake,” according to Tom Koutsoumpus, CEO of the National Partnership for Healthcare & Hospice Innovation (NPHI).
“Allowing the hospice face-to-face telehealth recertification flexibility to expire would be a...
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