Telehealth

Telehealth moved from the margins to the mainstream almost overnight, and the rules are still catching up. Providers and digital health companies now navigate a changing mix of state licensure requirements, modality and standard-of-care rules, prescribing limits, reimbursement and parity laws and corporate-practice restrictions that vary state by state plus the privacy and technology obligations that come with delivering care over a platform. The opportunity is real, and so is the regulatory uncertainty.

Phelps helps providers and digital health companies build telehealth models that work and hold up. We advise on the licensure, prescribing, reimbursement and structural questions that determine whether a model is viable, and we coordinate the privacy, technology and transactional work that telehealth ventures inevitably need.

How We Help

Multistate Licensure and Practice

Treating patients across state lines means complying with the licensure rules of every state where your patients are located. We help you map those requirements, evaluate interstate compacts and build a compliant footprint as you expand into new states.

Corporate Practice and Entity Structure

Telehealth companies frequently run into corporate-practice-of-medicine rules and the friendly-PC and MSO structures used to address them. We design and document entity structures that let the business scale across states while keeping clinical control where the law requires it.

Prescribing and Standard of Care

Remote prescribing, especially of controlled substances, sits under evolving federal and state rules. We advise on prescribing requirements, modality and examination standards and the standard-of-care questions that follow when the visit happens over video or asynchronously.

Reimbursement and Payor Issues

Coverage and payment for telehealth shift constantly across Medicare, Medicaid and commercial payors, including parity rules that vary by state. We help you understand what is reimbursable, structure services to qualify and navigate payor contracting for virtual care.

Technology, Platforms and Privacy

Every telehealth model runs on a platform that touches patient data. We negotiate the technology and platform agreements behind virtual care and coordinate the HIPAA and data security work so the privacy framework is built in.

Transactions and Investment

Digital health and telehealth are among the most active investment markets in health care. We advise companies, investors and providers on the formation, financing, partnership and M&A transactions that build and scale telehealth platforms.

Tele-Alternative Care

Longevity and wellness care has exploded, and with it, telehealth platforms expanding access to such alternative care models. We advise providers, companies, and investors exploring opportunities to expand patient access to medical marijuana, GLP-1s and peptides.

Why Clients Choose Phelps

We treat telehealth as the multistate opportunity that it is. The central challenge for such opportunity is complying with many states at once. We help you build a model that travels rather than one that works in a single state and breaks at the border.

We bring the whole bench to help. Telehealth touches regulatory, corporate, privacy, technology and reimbursement issues at the same time. Our team covers all of them, so your model is sound in every dimension.

We plan for where the rules are heading. Telehealth regulation is still in motion. We track the federal and state developments that affect your model so you are not blindsided when a temporary flexibility expires or a new rule takes effect.

Who We Help

• Telehealth and virtual care providers
• Digital health companies and platforms
• Physician practices and specialty groups offering virtual care
• Hospitals and health systems with telehealth programs
• Management services organizations and practice platforms
• Behavioral health and remote monitoring providers
• Private equity investors and their portfolio companies
• Technology and platform vendors serving the telehealth market