Resources & Reports

The Center for Connected Health Policy’s (CCHP) Fall 2024 Summary Report of the state telehealth laws and Medicaid program policies is now available as well as updated information on our online Policy Finder tool.  The most current information in the online tool may be exported for each state into a PDF document. The following is a summary of the current status of telehealth policy in the states (and jurisdictions) given these new updates.  Traditionally, CCHP has released bi-annual summary reports each Spring and Fall to offer a snapshot of progress over the previous six months. However, last year CCHP announced a  shift to an annual reporting schedule, with three rounds of updates to each jurisdiction in the Policy Finder throughout the year.  CCHP is committed to providing timely policy information that is easy for users to navigate and understand through our Policy Finder.  Additionally, sections of CCHP’s policy finder addressing COVID temporary policy as well as policy related specifically to federally qualified health centers (FQHC) (which had been included in CCHP’s online policy finder in previous years) have been phased out.   COVID telehealth policies that have been made permanent or extended for multiple years have been incorporated into the appropriate relevant sections of the policy finder.  Some FQHC policy addressing telehealth policies explicitly can also still be found in CCHP’s policy finder, often under the Medicaid section in the applicable general topic area.  The information for this summary report covers updates in state telehealth policy made between October 2023 and early September 2024, with states being last updated between late May and early September 2024.

Read the executive summary

While this Executive Summary provides an overview of findings, it must be stressed that there are nuances in many of the telehealth policies. To fully understand a specific policy and all its intricacies, the full language of it must be read utilizing CCHP’s telehealth Policy Finder.

CCHP has released a new updated telehealth billing guide as a follow up to its three previous annual editions.  This resource is intended to provide a helpful tool for healthcare entities trying to navigate the complexities of billing for telehealth and virtually delivered services.

CCHP has released a new updated telehealth billing guide as a follow up to its 2021 & 2022 billing guides.  These resources are intended to provide a helpful tool for healthcare entities trying to navigate the complexities of billing for telehealth and virtually delivered services.

As the COVID-19 pandemic moves towards its third year anniversary, some are seeing an eventual end to the public health emergency (PHE).  In the Fall 2022, the Center for Connected Health Policy (CCHP) held two webinars in its popular state telehealth policy series that focused on what the telehealth policy landscape may look like in a post-PHE environment.  The Fall Series expanded the scope of subject matter as the sessions focused on federal issues, specifically what might be expected in a post PHE environment, and what providers needed to keep in mind when operating in multiple jurisdictions.

September 1, 2022 marks CCHP’s ten-year anniversary as the federally designated National Telehealth Resource Center for Policy. For the past decade, CCHP has tracked and followed policy development for all 51 jurisdictions in the United States (District of Columbia included) as well as at the federal level providing us with the unique opportunity to observe and study the development of state and federal telehealth policy in the United States. This past decade also happens to be the period that encompasses some of the most significant telehealth policy developments seen thus far. This document is not only a report of what has transpired, but a means of setting the stage for the next chapter.