Telehealth Law
Telemedicine compliance, telehealth fraud red flags, and the regulatory landscape for virtual care.
Marketing Arrangements in Telehealth: Where Kickback Risk Concentrates
Lead generators, per-consult fees, and telemarketing deals can cross from bona fide advertising into referral payments the Anti-Ki…
Practicing Across State Lines: Telehealth Licensure Enforcement
State boards can discipline telehealth providers who treat out-of-state patients without proper licensure, even when compact pathw…
Telehealth Platform Agreements: Terms That Create Liability for Clinicians
Volume-based pay, clinical control limits, and one-sided indemnification clauses in telehealth platform agreements can expose phys…
Remote Patient Monitoring Audits: The 16-Day Rule and Time Requirements
CMS's 2026 RPM billing changes reshape CPT 99453, 99454, 99457, and 99458, raising audit stakes for telehealth providers on device…
When Auditors Pull Telehealth Prescribing Records
How Medicare and UPIC auditors evaluate telehealth prescribing records for synchronous-visit proof and patient identity verificati…
Telehealth Fraud Enforcement: What DOJ Actions Target
DOJ's 2026 national takedown charged 455 defendants and $6.5 billion in fraud, with telemedicine schemes again central to the patt…
Telehealth Billing Audits: Modifiers, Originating Sites, and Time
Medicare and Medicaid audits of telehealth claims focus on billing modifiers, the originating site requirement, and time-based doc…
Prescribing Controlled Substances via Telehealth: The Current Rules
The DEA's telemedicine flexibilities for controlled-substance prescribing run through the end of 2026. Here is what prescribers ne…
Approaching the Telehealth Policy Cliff: Medicare Telehealth Flexibilities to Expire Next Week
Without further congressional action, COVID-19 era telehealth flexibilities are set to expire on September 30, 2025. Read more to…