Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement
FCC Puts $42.7 Million into its Telehealth Program Coffers
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has approved more providers and added funds to its COVID-19 Telehealth Program. Background: In March 2020, the CARES Act funded the COVID-19 Telehealth Program with $200 million, but the FCC quickly went through that money and halted the program. Then in March 2021, the FCC relaunched Round 2 with an additional $250 million in funding from the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021 (see Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement, Vol. 47, No. 3). Now: On Dec. 21, 2021, the FCC announced that it had approved the applications of 68 providers and would begin distributing more than $42.7 million from the program. Check out details on the program at www.fcc.gov/covid-19-telehealth-program-invoices-reimbursements and review the release on the latest distribution at www.fcc.gov/document/fcc-awards-additional-427-million-covid-19-telehealth-round-2-0.
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