Hospice News October 31, 2025
The recent sunset of telehealth flexibilities implemented during the COVID-19 pandemic has hospices concerned about health equity and patients’ access to care, particularly in rural areas.
Regulatory waivers that the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued during the public health emergency expired on Sept. 30. Among the waivers was the ability to perform patient re-certification face-to-face encounters via telehealth. The flexibilities also widened the scope of practitioners eligible to provide telehealth while removing geographic requirements and expanding originating sites for these services, including federally qualified health centers and rural health clinics.
Underserved patient populations in rural regions came to depend heavily on telehealth services, according to Stephanie Adair Reed, vice president of hospice services at Liberty Homecare...
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