Resources & Reports

CCHP’s August Newsletter is Here! This month’s topics include – FTC/OCR Letter Cautions Against Online Tracking Technologies + End of HIPAA Enforcement Discretion; Medicare Updated Telehealth Factsheet; Latest Policy Developments in CCHP’s Telehealth Policy Finder and Policy Trends Map; In Case You Missed It: Proposed 2024 PFS Deep Dive by CCHP + Updated At a Glance Chart; MedPAC Study:  Measuring Impact of Telehealth on Access and Quality of Care; Telehealth in Michigan Report Presents Key Policy Considerations.

Earlier this year, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released a series of fact sheets with guidance that detailed the status of temporary telehealth COVID-19 policies after the Public Health Emergency (PHE) ended on May 11, 2023.  The majority of these fact sheets were released in February but since that time there have been subsequent updates and in some cases changes to what was originally noted in the original versions.  CCHP is providing an update to our previously released At-A-Glance chart for this information.  Please note that the information in the chart is current through July 25, 2023.

The proposed CY 2024 Physician Fee Schedule (PFS) was released on July 13, 2023. The PFS contains policy changes proposed by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services(CMS) for the Medicare program to take place the following year (unless otherwise stated). Many have been anticipating these proposed rules due to certain temporary telehealth policies currently slated to end this year. The proposed 2024 PFS does provide some clarity around how CMS will address several telehealth policy issues in Medicare for next year, but not all.

CCHP’s July Newsletter is Here! This month’s topics include – CMS Releases CY 2024 Physician Fee Schedule with Restructuring of Telehealth Service Code System and Other Changes; Emerging Trends Observed in Recent Updates to CCHP’s Telehealth Policy Finder and Policy Trends Map; CBO Telehealth Estimates for Telehealth Expansion Act; American Heart Association Launches Telehealth Certification;  Virginia Telehealth Network Provider Survey; Benefit of Direct-to-Consumer Telehealth for Employees; In case you missed it:  CCHP’s 2023 Medicare Billing Guide Release.

Today the Center for Connected Health Policy (CCHP) is releasing its 2023 Telehealth Billing Guide for Medicare Fee-For-Service.  Due to the uncertainty of what temporary COVID-19 telehealth policies would remain in place post-public health emergency (PHE), CCHP delayed releasing this guide until the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) confirmed what their policies would be for fee-for-service Medicare. As such, the information contained in this guide is current up to May 2023.