{"id":858,"date":"2025-11-04T13:38:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T17:38:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/healthlaw\/?p=858"},"modified":"2025-11-04T13:38:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T17:38:13","slug":"medicare-telehealth-claims-reimbursement-and-flexibilities-face-limits-during-the-government-shutdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/healthlaw\/2025\/11\/04\/medicare-telehealth-claims-reimbursement-and-flexibilities-face-limits-during-the-government-shutdown\/","title":{"rendered":"Medicare Telehealth Claims Reimbursement and Flexibilities Face Limits During the Government Shutdown"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/attorneys\/erinmduffy.html\">Erin Duffy<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/attorneys\/nevillembilimoria.html\">Neville Bilimoria<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/attorneys\/victoriahawekotte.html\">Victoria (Tori) Hawekotte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Due to the U.S. government shutdown, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services have paused reimbursement payments for nonbehavioral health telehealth Medicare claims, pending congressional action. Further, a new congressional bill, Section 207 of the Continuing Appropriations Act 2026, would have statutorily extended certain telehealth flexibilities, mainly for nonbehavioral healthcare services. Given the bill\u2019s failure in the Senate, pre-COVID-19 restrictions for Medicare telehealth coverage will continue to be in effect until congressional action further extends the telehealth flexibilities<strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read the full <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/alerts\/medicare_telehealth_claims_reimbursment_flexibilities_face_limits_during_government_1125.html\">Alert<\/a><\/em> on the Duane Morris website. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Erin Duffy, Neville Bilimoria and Victoria (Tori) Hawekotte Due to the U.S. government shutdown, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services have paused reimbursement payments for nonbehavioral health telehealth Medicare claims, pending congressional action. Further, a new congressional bill, Section 207 of the Continuing Appropriations Act 2026, would have statutorily extended certain telehealth flexibilities, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/healthlaw\/2025\/11\/04\/medicare-telehealth-claims-reimbursement-and-flexibilities-face-limits-during-the-government-shutdown\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Medicare Telehealth Claims Reimbursement and Flexibilities Face Limits During the Government Shutdown&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1002,10,272],"ppma_author":[906],"class_list":["post-858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-law","tag-government-shutdown","tag-medicare","tag-telehealth"],"authors":[{"term_id":906,"user_id":6,"is_guest":0,"slug":"duanemorris3","display_name":"Duane Morris","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/843ff6e7a8fe5fc92109b47a45f34b6cf0ea499e6e788db23456c838b0ae6747?s=96&d=blank&r=g","0":null,"1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/healthlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/healthlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/healthlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/healthlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/healthlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/healthlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/858\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/healthlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/healthlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/healthlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=858"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/healthlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}