The Alliance for Connected Care led more than 150 stakeholder organizations in a letter requesting that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to take action on preserving the benefits of telehealth by ensuring telehealth practitioners working from a home-based (or other) location do not need to report that private residence to the federal government for purposes of either enrollment or billing.
Currently, CMS proposed, in the CY 2025 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule, an extension through 2025 of regulatory flexibility for telehealth practitioners who offer a telehealth service from their home or another location to report their currently enrolled location. However, the ability to bill a currently enrolled location does not alleviate barriers for virtual-only practitioners without a physical practice location to report other than their homes.
The signers respectfully request CMS to work with stakeholders to develop an alternate method of determining location for the purposes of payment that does not require the reporting of a home address, such as through the convening of a roundtable or a similar effort, to ensure the experiences of virtual-only practitioners are considered.
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