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Medicare Telehealth Waivers Extended Through September 2025

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On March 15, 2025, Congress passed and President Trump signed into law a Continuing Resolution that temporarily extends certain critical programs and appropriations through September 30, 2025. The legislation, titled the...more

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Medicare Telehealth Gets Another Temporary Lifeline – Will Congress Make it Permanent?

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On March 15, 2025, President Trump signed a continuing resolution to avert a government shutdown, which included a critical six-month extension of Medicare telehealth flexibilities through September 30, 2025. This six-month...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

UPDATE: Telehealth “Cliff” Pushed Back until April 1, 2025

Congress narrowly avoided hurdling off the telehealth “cliff” Bradley previously reported on in this post with the passing of the American Relief Act, 2025 on December 21, 2024...more

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DEA/HHS Telemedicine Prescribing of Controlled Substances Extension

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On November 15, 2024, the US Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) jointly issued a temporary rule, which extends the current flexibilities relating to prescribing controlled...more

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

DEA and HHS Extend COVID-19 Telemedicine Prescribing Flexibilities Again

The federal Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) have extended COVID-19 telemedicine flexibilities for prescribing controlled substances. Until December 31, 2025, a...more

McDermott Will & Emery

DEA Extends Telemedicine Flexibilities for Controlled Substance Prescribing Through December 31, 2025

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The US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) further extended flexibilities that allow providers to prescribe controlled substances via telemedicine without first performing an in-person visit. The flexibilities were...more

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2024 End-of-Year Plan Sponsor “To Do” List (Part 1) Health and Welfare

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We are pleased to present our annual End of Year Plan Sponsor “To Do” Lists. This year, we present our “To Do” Lists in four separate SW Benefits Updates. This Part 1 covers year-end health and welfare plan issues. Parts 2,...more

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Healthcare Regulatory Check-up Newsletter | April 2024 Recap

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This issue of McDermott’s Healthcare Regulatory Check-Up highlights regulatory activity for April 2024. We discuss several US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) agency actions, including the Calendar Year (CY) 2025...more

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Opioid Treatment Programs: SAMHSA Makes Permanent Regulatory Flexibilities

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On February 1, 2024, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, announced a final rule updating the regulations regarding Opioid Treatment Programs...more

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Looking Forward: Top Policy Areas for 2024

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Happy New Year! As we enter 2024, we want to lay out some of the main regulatory issues (both new and old) that McDermott+Consulting will be tracking over the next year. While these may evolve, we think they are still...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

HHS & DOJ FY 2022 Enforcement Targeted Fraud in COVID-19, Telemedicine, Opioid and Prescription Drugs, and Substance Use Treatment...

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Department of Justice (DOJ) recently released its “Health Care Fraud and Abuse Control Program Annual Report for Fiscal Year 2022” (the “Report”), highlighting...more

Burr & Forman

Telehealth Prescribing Flexibilities for Controlled Substances Extended Through End of 2024

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The rule allowing for providers to prescribe controlled substances via telehealth, set to expire for new patient-provider relationships on November 11, has been extended through the end of 2024....more

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Telehealth Update: DEA Extends Flexibility in Prescribing Controlled Substances via Telehealth Through 2024

On October 10, 2023, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) published another temporary rule extending the COVID-era telemedicine flexibilities that allow physicians and other prescribers to prescribe controlled substances...more

Hendershot Cowart P.C.

HIPAA & Telemedicine in Texas: Are Audio-Only Telemedicine Services Allowed?

In June 2022, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued new guidance on the use of remote communication technologies to deliver audio-only telemedicine in compliance with the Health Insurance Portability...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

[Event] 2023 Healthcare Enforcement Compliance Conference - November 5th - 7th, Washington, DC

Hear directly from the enforcement community - Want to gain insight into properly monitoring, detecting, investigating, and managing violations? Join us at HCCA’s Annual Healthcare Enforcement Compliance Conference to...more

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NJ DME Company Owner Pleads Guilty to Kickback Scheme

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The U.S. Attorney’s Office for New Jersey recently announced that Alexander Schleider of Lakewood pleaded guilty to wire fraud and conspiracy to commit healthcare fraud in a durable medical equipment (DME) kickback scheme....more

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10 Things to Know About Telehealth Compliance

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Providing care via electronic communication when patients and providers are in separate locations, known as telemedicine or telehealth, has been possible for decades. The exigent circumstances sparked by the COVID-19 pandemic...more

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Healthcare Regulatory Check-Up Newsletter | May 2023 Recap

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This issue of McDermott’s Healthcare Regulatory Check-Up highlights significant regulatory activity for May 2023. We discuss several criminal and civil enforcement actions that involve violations of the False Claims Act (FCA)...more

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Health Care Week in Review: HHS Coverage Flexibilities and MedPAC/MACPAC Reports

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Below is Alston & Bird’s Health Care Week in Review, which provides a synopsis of the latest news in health care regulations, notices, and guidance; federal legislation and congressional committee action; reports, studies,...more

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Telehealth HIPAA Compliance Flexibilities Extended as the Public Health Emergency Ends

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During the COVID-19 public health emergency (PHE), many federal telehealth rules were made flexible to accommodate the need for continued access to healthcare, including prescribing controlled substances without an in-person...more

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DEA Publishes Temporary Rule on the Extension of COVID-19 Telemedicine Flexibilities for Prescription of Controlled Substances

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Since the declaration of the public health emergency due to the COVID-19 epidemic, Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) registered practitioners have been able to prescribe controlled substances, without a prior in-person...more

Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP

End of the Public Health Emergency Marks End of HIPAA Enforcement Discretion for Telehealth Practices

The COVID-19 public health emergency (PHE) in the United States came to an end on May 11, 2023. Simultaneously, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights (OCR) announced that its enforcement...more

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Drug Enforcement Administration Extends Telemedicine Treatment and Prescription Flexibilities

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The expiration of the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency (“PHE”) on May 11, 2023 could have created a “prescription cliff” leaving patients without access to controlled substances. During the PHE, telemedicine flexibilities...more

McGuireWoods Consulting

Washington Healthcare Update - May 2023 #2

This Week in Washington: Debt Ceiling Continues to Loom Over the Capitol; DEA Extends COVID-19 Controlled Medications Prescribing Telehealth Flexibilities...more

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Expiration of COVID-19 Public Health Emergency Means the Beginning of the End for HIPAA Privacy and Security Enforcement...

The Notifications of Enforcement Discretion issued under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) and the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act during the...more

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