HealthLeaders Media November 8, 2024
CMS won’t extend certain key pandemic-era waivers any longer, putting telehealth expansion plans in jeopardy. Will lawmakers step in and take action?
KEY TAKEAWAYS
– In its final 2025 Physician Fee Schedule, CMS announced that it would no longer extend pandemic-era waivers eliminating geographic and location restrictions on telehealth and expanding the list of providers able to use virtual care.
– The agency did make several changes, including extending for one year a rule allowing providers to bill for telehealth services using their practice address, rather than their home address.
Pandemic-era telehealth waivers that allowed providers to expand their virtual care footprint will end this year unless Congress takes action.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced in...
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