In 2026 Telehealth From Your Home Requires You To Enroll Your Home As A Practice Location

We celebrated the extension of Telehealth through next year. During the legislative process and our advocacy efforts, the understanding was that Telehealth flexibilities would continue as they had in previous years. However, a significant change was made that has caught many organizations and practitioners by surprise.

For the past several years, CMS allowed physicians and other practitioners to provide Telehealth services from their homes while billing under their group’s practice address. That flexibility ended on January 1, 2026.

Effective January 1, 2026, physicians and other practitioners must separately enroll each location from which they provide Telehealth services. According to CMS, “virtual-only telehealth practitioners whose only physical practice location is their home address will need to enroll their home address as a practice location.”

This means that:

• If you are currently billing for Telehealth services provided from your home while using your group’s practice address, you should discontinue this practice unless your home location has been appropriately enrolled.
• If you provide Telehealth services in multiple states, you may face significant enrollment and update backlogs, particularly if you intend to enroll multiple practice locations for each physician and other practitioners within your organization.

We encourage all practices to review their Telehealth billing and enrollment processes to ensure compliance with the updated CMS requirements.

https://www.cms.gov/files/document/telehealth-faq-updated-02-26-2026.pdf