Compliance: OIG to CMS and legislators: Build program integrity into any new telehealth rules

Article Overview

This compliance-focused article covers an HHS Office of Inspector General data brief on Medicare telehealth services during the first year of the pandemic. It explains why OIG urged CMS, Congress, and other stakeholders to include program integrity protections in any permanent telehealth changes, and it summarizes the broad categories of billing patterns the agency flagged as potential risk areas. The piece is relevant to compliance teams, auditors, physicians, telehealth providers, and policy readers monitoring Medicare oversight and telehealth rulemaking.