16 May, 2024 12:54

CMS is improving the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments (CLIA) program by switching to electronic fee coupons and CLIA certificates. After March 1, 2026, paper fee coupons and CLIA certificates will no longer be available; we’ll stop mailing paper...

Medicare has extended medical telehealth billing for RHCs using CPT code G2025 through December 31, 2026.  Effective January 1, 2026, Medicare has updated the virtual communication codes for RHCs, terming G0071 and replacing it with 3 codes: 98016, G2010 and...

December 18, 2025 Effective January 1, the application fee is $750 for institutional providers who are: Initially enrolling in the Medicare or Medicaid programs or the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) Revalidating their Medicare, Medicaid, or CHIP enrollment...

Dear RHC Community, We need your help! As many of you know, Congress failed to extend Medicare medical telehealth coverage by September 30, so these flexibilities have lapsed. While our top priority is to reinstate these critical flexibilities, we are simultaneously...

In the final week before passing the H.R.1, Congress created a $50 billion dollar fund to “transform” rural health. In each of the next 5 years, $10 billion will flow to the states to help them implement a “rural health transformation plan” but details are scant as to...

NARHC is thrilled to announce the introduction of three new bills to strengthen and modernize the Rural Health Clinic (RHC) program: the Modernizing Rural Physician Assistant and Nurse Practitioner Utilization Act (H.R.5199), Rural Health Clinic Location Modernization...

Attention Texas Medicaid Providers! It is critical to know when your revalidation with TMHP is due. Let us take care of this and all your credentialing needs - contact us today! The Texas Health and Human Services Commission (HHSC) is requiring assistance from MCOs to...

Trump’s First 100 Days and What’s to Come – Policy Updates for RHCs Health policy has been a much discussed topic since the Trump Administration’s second term and the 119th Congress began just a few months ago! Currently, Members of Congress are debating reforms to...

Dear NARHC Members, Please join us on December 10 at 4 PM Eastern Time for our 2024 Annual Membership meeting. In this virtual meeting, our NARHC Executive Committee (President Mandy Shelast, Vice President Shannon Chambers, and Secretary/Treasurer Denise Schentrup)...

NARHC has been engaging with CMS over the last year in an attempt to resolve the CPT Category II code issue for RHCs, including through a letter to the CMS Administrator. We are very pleased to report that CMS recently issued a CMS Change Request to allow Category II...