The big question for healthcare organizations that have expanded their telehealth services since the beginning of the pandemic has been what will happen when the public health emergency ends. This uncertainty is what’s known as the “telehealth cliff.”
By authority granted under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services provided flexibility for Medicare telehealth services by broadening the waiver authority under section 1135 of the Social Security Act.
This waived CMS’s geographic and originating site requirements for telehealth…
