Telehealth on the Chopping Block? Major Healthcare Changes You Need to Know (2025)
Is Telehealth about to end?🤷🏾♀️
What’s really happening with UnitedHealthcare’s prior authorization changes?🧐
What do recent public health executive orders mean for patients and providers?🤯🤯🤯
Welcome back to RCM Roundup with Tiffany Robinson from Beyond RCM, where we break down the most pressing issues in healthcare, revenue cycle management (RCM), and medical billing in plain English — for providers, patients, and healthcare professionals alike.
In this episode, we’re covering:
1️⃣ The potential end of Telehealth as of April 1, 2025 — What’s changing? What’s uncertain? How should providers and patients prepare?
2️⃣ UnitedHealthcare’s major pivot on prior authorizations for home health services — What’s getting eliminated and what states are impacted?
3️⃣ A deep dive into recent executive orders affecting public health data — What was removed, why it matters, and how public health saves lives.
⏰ Show Notes & Timestamps
00:00 – Intro & Episode Overview
01:30 – Telehealth in Jeopardy?
➡️The history of telehealth before and during COVID-19
➡️What happens when the current telehealth extension expires?
➡️How providers and patients should prepare for April 2025
Impact on elderly and vulnerable patients
10:45 – UnitedHealthcare Drops Prior Authorization for Home Health (Medicare Advantage & D-SNP)
➡️Overview of new prior authorization guidelines starting April 1, 2025
➡️What services are impacted?
Which states are included and excluded (link below)
➡️What this means for providers and patients
17:40 – Public Health Executive Orders: What’s Being Erased from Public Health Agencies?
➡️Breakdown of executive order requiring removal of gender, DEI, and foreign aid data
Immediate impacts on CDC, FDA, HHS websites
➡️Why public health data matters — a look back at life expectancy and public health advancements
Legal response: Doctors of America lawsuit and judge's ruling
22:00 – 🚨Final thoughts, call to action, and resources.
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🔗 Links & Resources Mentioned
👉 Telehealth Guidance & Updates
CMS Telehealth Guidance⤵️
https://www.medicare.gov/coverage/tel...
https://telehealthresourcecenter.org/...
https://www.axios.com/2025/02/27/tele...
👉 UnitedHealthcare Prior Authorization Policy Update
UnitedHealthcare Provider News⤵️
https://www.uhcprovider.com/en/resour...
👉 Public Health Executive Orders Impact & Legal Response
Healthcare Dive Article on Health Data Purge⤵️
https://www.healthcaredive.com/news/t...
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/judge-or...
👉 Learn More About Public Health Importance⤵️
https://www.amazon.com/At-Risk-Americ...
https://www.wsj.com/health/wellness/i...
https://www.webmd.com/children/vaccin...
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