Resources & Reports

The Center for Connected Health Policy’s (CCHP) Fall 2023 Summary Report of the state telehealth laws and Medicaid program policies is now available as well as updated information on our online Policy Finder tool. The most current information in the online tool may be exported for each state into a PDF document. The following is a summary of the current status of telehealth policy in the states given these new updates. Historically, CCHP has provided these bi-annual summary reports in the Spring and Fall each year to provide a snapshot of the progress made in the past six months. Moving forward, the summary report will transition to being released once per year in the Fall only, with three separate rounds of updates being made to each jurisdiction in the Policy Finder per year. CCHP is committed to providing timely policy information that is easy for users to navigate and understand through our Policy Finder. Additionally, in 2020 the COVID-19 category was added to CCHP’s online policy finder. The temporary COVID-19 policies were never factored into this report since they were temporary and contingent on the existence of COVID-19 public health emergency (PHE) designations. Since the federal COVID-19 PHE officially ended on May 11, 2023, and most state PHE designations have ended, the policy finder’s COVID-19 section will be phased out of the next round of updates occurring in Winter 2023- 2024. Policies that have been made permanent or extended for multiple years have been (and will continue to be) incorporated into the other appropriate relevant sections of the policy finder. The information for this summary report covers updates in state telehealth policy made between late May and early September 2023.

Read the executive summary

While this Executive Summary provides an overview of findings, it must be stressed that there are nuances in many of the telehealth policies. To fully understand a specific policy and all its intricacies, the full language of it must be read utilizing CCHP’s telehealth Policy Finder.

CCHP has released a new updated telehealth billing guide as a follow up to its 2021 & 2022 billing guides.  These resources are intended to provide a helpful tool for healthcare entities trying to navigate the complexities of billing for telehealth and virtually delivered services.

As the COVID-19 pandemic moves towards its third year anniversary, some are seeing an eventual end to the public health emergency (PHE).  In the Fall 2022, the Center for Connected Health Policy (CCHP) held two webinars in its popular state telehealth policy series that focused on what the telehealth policy landscape may look like in a post-PHE environment.  The Fall Series expanded the scope of subject matter as the sessions focused on federal issues, specifically what might be expected in a post PHE environment, and what providers needed to keep in mind when operating in multiple jurisdictions.

September 1, 2022 marks CCHP’s ten-year anniversary as the federally designated National Telehealth Resource Center for Policy. For the past decade, CCHP has tracked and followed policy development for all 51 jurisdictions in the United States (District of Columbia included) as well as at the federal level providing us with the unique opportunity to observe and study the development of state and federal telehealth policy in the United States. This past decade also happens to be the period that encompasses some of the most significant telehealth policy developments seen thus far. This document is not only a report of what has transpired, but a means of setting the stage for the next chapter.

Thrust into the forefront of healthcare with the advent of COVID-19, telehealth policy has taken a prominent place in discussions and actions on both the state and federal level. However, the telehealth policy landscape is complicated and ever-evolving with many trying to keep pace with multitude of changes and issues.  For the Summer 2022 edition of the Center for Connected Health Policy’s (CCHP) webinar series, the focus was more on state policy issues that have been of great interest to many.