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Recent Prescribing Regulations – DEA & HHS Delay Implementation of First Rules

Stephanie Graham — Wed, 26 Feb 2025 19:08:05 +0000

The Center for Connected Health Policy (CCHP) released a writeup detailing the recent prescribing regulations. The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) have announced a delay in the effective date for the recently issued final rules regarding the telemedicine prescribing of buprenorphine and telemedicine for Veterans Affairs Patients. Originally scheduled to become effective February 18, the rules will now take effect on March 21, 2025. For more information, view the full writeup.

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Recent Prescribing Regulations – DEA & HHS Delay Implementation of First Rules (Created by CCHP)

Stephanie Graham — Wed, 26 Feb 2025 17:56:29 +0000

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CCHP 2024 Medicaid Fall 2024 Summary for All States

Lizzie Casteel — Thu, 21 Nov 2024 20:12:45 +0000

This chart provides a quick reference summary of each state’s telehealth policy on Medicaid reimbursement, private payer reimbursement laws (both if a law exists and whether or not payment parity is required), and professional requirements around consent, cross-state licensure, and interstate compacts based on information gathered between late May and early September 2024. For further details, and additional categories, see each state’s section on CCHP’s telehealth policy finder tool.

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CCHP 2024 Medicaid Fall 2024 Summary for All States

Lizzie Casteel — Thu, 21 Nov 2024 20:10:55 +0000

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2023 Telehealth Billing Guide for Medicare Fee-For-Service

Amy Moses — Fri, 14 Jul 2023 14:37:05 +0000

The Center for Connected Health Policy (CCHP) is providing this informational billing guide to assist those who have questions regarding telehealth billing in general and specifically, post-PHE. The guide is primarily about Medicare fee-for-service billing as policies vary from state-to-state for Medicaid and commercial payers.

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Telehealth 201: HIPAA & Privacy | video

Wendy Ross — Fri, 03 Feb 2023 18:16:31 +0000

In this short video from our colleagues at CCHP, Executive director, Mei Kwong, discusses how telehealth works with HIPAA and health privacy laws.

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COVID-19 Related State Actions

Lizzie Casteel — Tue, 17 Jan 2023 23:17:06 +0000

Summary for state-specific updates from the Center for Connected Health Policy, a nationally-focused telehealth resource center.

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Summary of the State Laws & Reimbursement Policy

Lizzie Casteel — Tue, 17 Jan 2023 23:16:38 +0000

Telehealth and Telemedicine regulations can vary by state on such topics as “Store & Forward” and “Informed Consent”. The Center for Connected Health Policy has developed a Summary of the State Laws & Reimbursement Policy for every state.

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Proposed Physician Fee Schedule 2023

Lizzie Casteel — Thu, 07 Jul 2022 22:03:27 +0000

On July 7, 2022 the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released the unpublished version of the proposals for the CY 2023 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (PFS). CMS uses this process to make administrative updates on Medicare’s policy related to telehealth. This year, the telehealth proposals focused primarily on what services will be covered by the program and what will happen immediately following the end of the public health emergency (PHE).

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Telehealth Coverage Policies in the Time of COVID-19 to date

Lizzie Casteel — Mon, 06 Apr 2020 22:03:56 +0000

Developed by the Center for Connected Health Policy, the policy-focused TRC, and a member of the National Consortium of Telehealth Resource Centers.

Last Updated: April 6, 2020

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