The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has made permanent a change in Medicare telehealth policy that was introduced as a temporary flexibility during the COVID-19 public health emergency: permitting most providers to deliver telehealth services from their homes without listing their home address on their Medicare enrollment.
According to the new CMS advisory document “Understanding Telehealth and Teleradiology Enrollment,”
If you provide telehealth services from your home, but have a physical practice location, you do not need to report your home address on your Medicare enrollment application. You can enroll and bill from your physical practice location as if the service was provided in person.- If you provide virtual-only telehealth services and your only physical practice location is your home address, you must report your home address as a practice location.
CMS initiated a major increase in the use of telehealth as a diagnostic and medical follow-up tool during the COVID pandemic, at a time when public health authorities encouraged less public contact between people as a means of avoiding contagion.
To help providers understand the new guidelines, the CMS advisory document also presents a series of scenarios and outlines the requirements for each.
Learn more about this fundamental change in Medicare and telehealth policy from the CMS advisory document “Understanding Telehealth and Teleradiology Enrollment.”