Telehealth policy deadlines tracker

The telehealth rules with an expiration date — DEA’s telemedicine prescribing flexibilities, Medicare telehealth waivers and state payment-parity laws — with the current status, the legal authority and a countdown to each deadline.

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Methodology

Data sources

Federal Register — rules, proposed rules and notices
Congress.gov — public laws extending Medicare telehealth flexibilities
CMS telehealth resources
DEA Diversion Control Division

What we include

Federal and state telehealth policies that are temporary, expiring or pending a decision with a known date.
Each policy’s status is the one in force on the “status as of” date shown.

How we verify

Expiration dates are taken from the public law, final rule or agency notice cited in the record.
Timelines link each extension or change to its source document.

Known gaps

Countdowns are computed when the page is generated and show the date they were calculated.
State policies are included selectively.

Update frequency: Checked at least weekly, and on the day any extension or rule is published.

CSV columns (16)

The CSV file is UTF-8 (with a byte-order mark for Excel), comma-separated with CRLF line endings (RFC 4180), one row per record, with these columns in order. Dates are YYYY-MM-DD (U.S. Eastern); list values are separated by semicolons.

policy_id: Stable identifier (also the anchor on the tracker page).
policy_name: Policy name.
jurisdiction: Federal program or state.
agency: Responsible agency, when one applies.
status_kind: Status code (active, expiring, expired, permanent, pending).
current_status: Current status in plain English.
expires_date: Scheduled expiration (YYYY-MM-DD), if any.
last_changed_date: Date of the last change in legal status.
public_law: Public law that sets the current status.
fr_citation: Federal Register citation or document number.
rin: Regulation Identifier Number.
hub_url: Our coverage hub for the policy.
summary: Staff-written summary.
timeline: Dated events, "YYYY-MM-DD: event", separated by semicolons.
status_as_of: Date we last verified the status.
last_updated: When this record last changed (ISO 8601).