The Alliance for Connected Care, in partnership with the American Telemedicine Association, led 112 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 allows practitioners to render telehealth services from their home without reporting their home address on their Medicare enrollment or billing paperwork. This will end on December 31, 2023. The current location-based enrollment structure is outdated and does not support providers new operational and privacy concerns faced in a digital age.