• Telehealth services are expanded for all 62 million Medicare beneficiaries, not just those in rural areas or with no access to local medical facilities.
• Medicare will reimburse providers for telehealth visits at the same rate as face-to-face visits.
• Health and Human Services (HHS) has taken steps to make it easier for providers to use telehealth services.
• HHS encourages providers to adopt and use telehealth as a way to safely provide care to your patients in appropriate situations.
• HHS is relaxing HIPAA enforcement of non-compliance with telehealth to allow certain video technologies like FaceTime and Skype.
• HHS says providers can use any non-public facing remote communication product to communicate with patients.
• Providers must continue to implement reasonable safeguards to protect patient information.
• Facilities should not use public-facing platforms like Facebook Live, Twitch or TikTok for telehealth.

Sources: Health and Human Services and HIPPA Journal.