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Telehealth Reimbursement: End-of-Pandemic Emergency Update

Telebehavioral Health Institute

Medicare and Telehealth Reimbursement for many audio and video behavioral telehealth services has been permanently approved and will extend beyond the PHE without interruption for Medicare beneficiaries. They can receive care from their homes rather than traveling to a health care facility.

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CMS rolls back more Medicare, telehealth regs for providers working through pandemic

Henry Kotula

Accountable care organizations also scored a major win in the Thursday rule drop, with CMS pledging they wouldn’t be dinged financially for lower-than-expected health outcomes in their patient populations from COVID-19.?. In the past, only doctors, nurse practitioners, physician assistants and certain others could do so.