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

Lexology November 30, 2022
Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

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 services and were made possible by the COVID-19 emergency blanket waivers, which went into effect when the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (“HHS”) declared a Public Health Emergency (the “PHE”). Some of these tools:

• Permitted providers to furnish distant site telehealth services;
• Expanded the use of audio-only telehealth to behavioral health counseling services; and
• Facilitated the conducting of telehealth appointments by practitioners from their homes while billing from their currently enrolled locations.

As a result of these efforts, the use of telehealth and telemedicine...

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