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CCHP’s October Newsletter is Here! This month’s topics include State COVID-19 Flexibilities Slowly Subsiding; Medicare Clarifies Interstate License Compact Pathways; September Policy Developments in CCHP’s Telehealth Policy Finder and Policy Trends Maps; Senators Issue Request for Information on Strategies to Improve Mental Health, Including Telehealth Solutions; RemoteICU Lawsuit Takes Aim at Medicare Overseas Provider Ban; Yes – Health Apps and Connected Devices must Notify Consumers when there is a Breach; Utilization of Patient Portals is Up, even Pre-Pandemic, ONC Survey Finds; Physician Fee Schedule Comments.

In September, the Department of Justice (DOJ) filed formal charges against 138 defendants in multiple health care fraud cases. The largest fraud, resulting in $1.1 billion in allegedly false and fraudulent claims, has been categorized by many news outlets, and even in the DOJ press release as ‘telemedicine fraud’.  The actual fraud involved telemedicine company executives paying doctors and nurse practitioners to order unnecessary durable medical equipment (DME) and other testing without a patient interaction, or just based on a brief telephonic conversation.