Resources & Reports

Thrust into the forefront of healthcare with the advent of COVID-19, telehealth policy has taken a prominent place in discussions and actions on both the state and federal level. However, the telehealth policy landscape is complicated and ever-evolving with many trying to keep pace with multitude of changes and issues.  For the Summer 2022 edition of the Center for Connected Health Policy’s (CCHP) webinar series, the focus was more on state policy issues that have been of great interest to many.

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

CCHP’s 2021 roundup of state approved legislation which includes a detailed listing of all bills by topic area and state.

CCHP recently completed and released a report summarizing the four webinars hosted during the Fall Telehealth & Medicaid webinar series. The report dives into the findings gleaned from the presentations and synthesizes key takeaways from each Medicaid agency’s telehealth policy activities.

CCHP conducted a small study on the use of audio-only to treat Medicaid patients in a federally qualified health center (FQHC). Selecting a group of states that at the time the research was being conducted had the highest number of COVID-19 cases per 100,000 people per the CDC, we examined each state’s Medicaid policies in fee-for-service that existed pre-pandemic, what was allowed during COVID-19, and what audio-only policies may have been made permanent.