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States Move to Advance Telehealth Objectives

Numerous states—including Florida, Texas and Michigan—have been busy finalizing telehealth-related rulemaking and legislation. Michigan’s proposed bills, for example, push for coverage parity across insurers and payment parity.

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States Move to Standardize Healthcare Licensing Requirements

Numerous states—including Alaska, Wisconsin, Ohio and Oregon—have been busy finalizing rulemaking and legislation advancing hybrid healthcare models, modernizing licensure infrastructures and incentivizing telehealth. What have these states been up to over the last month?

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States Move to Regulate Telehealth-Related Youth Services

Numerous states—including Louisiana, Ohio, California, Tennessee and New Jersey—have been finalizing rulemaking and legislation that create or amend professional practice standards to incorporate telehealth. Several of these states have also proposed regulations or laws related to the provision of care to youths.

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States Amend Professional Practice Standards to Incorporate Telehealth

Numerous states—including Wisconsin, Illinois, Kentucky and Oklahoma—have been busy finalizing rulemaking and legislation that create or amend professional practice standards to incorporate telehealth. What have these states been up to over the last month?

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Teleprescribing of Controlled Substances Temporarily Extended Beyond PHE

The US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) are extending telehealth flexibilities that allow providers to prescribe controlled substances. While the extension is in place, the DEA indicated that it will be further evaluating its recently proposed rules for post-COVID-19 public health emergency telemedicine prescription of controlled substances.

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HHS OIG Develops Toolkit to Analyze Telehealth Claims to Assess Program Integrity Risks

The US Department of Health and Human Services Office of the Inspector General (HHS OIG) recently unveiled a new toolkit that seeks to help analyze telehealth claims for federal healthcare program integrity risks. It is based on methodologies highlighted in OIG’s September 2022 data brief; the data brief identified billing practices by Medicare providers that OIG was concerned posed a high risk to program integrity. OIG intends for the toolkit to be used by public and private parties—including Medicare Advantage plan sponsors, private health plans, State Medicaid Fraud Control Units and other federal healthcare agencies—to assess program integrity risks and identify providers whose billing may warrant further scrutiny.

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April Trending in Telehealth

Numerous states—including North Dakota, Hawaii, Indiana, Texas and New Hampshire—have been busy finalizing rulemaking and legislation impacting healthcare providers, telehealth and digital health companies, pharmacists and technology companies that deliver and facilitate virtual care. What have these states been up to over the last month?

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