As the pandemic eases and state public health emergencies expire, healthcare providers are scrambling to figure out what they can and can’t do with telehealth any more.
Florida Governor Ron...
The next phase of the 21st Century Cures Act includes several measures to boost Medicare coverage for telehealth, through both new programs and acts to permanently extend connected health freedoms...
US Reps Liz Cheney and Debbie Dingell are jumping onto the telehealth policy bandwagon with a bill aimed at permanently extending key waivers introduced during the pandemic.
Cheney, a Republican...
With Congress facing dozens of bills aimed at improving telehealth coverage beyond the pandemic, one Senator is pressing the issue by combining four bills into one piece of legislation.
Senator John...
The American Medical Association has launched a new program aimed at helping providers optimize and expand their telehealth programs.
Meg Barron, the AMA’s vice president of digital health...
A group of Senators has submitted yet another bill aimed at permanently extending Medicare coverage for certain telehealth services beyond the pandemic.
The Protecting Rural Telehealth Access Act (S....
Texas is set to approve legislation that would give the state’s Medicaid program and other public health plans more leeway to cover telehealth and allow audio-only telehealth services in some...
Telehealth advocates have long used the Department of Veterans’ Affairs as an example of how telehealth is working well. A new bill before the US Senate aims to help the VA go even further with...
(Updated on May 28 with further comments) Justice Department officials have announced the first criminal charges linked to telehealth coverage laws that have been relaxed during the coronavirus...
The debate over whether to allow Medicare coverage for audio-only telehealth services is now before Congress.
US Reps. Jason Smith (R-MO) and Josh Gottheimer (D-NJ) this week introduced the Permanency...
California’s largest medical association is challenging Governor Gavin Newsom’s plan to set Medicaid reimbursement for audio-only telehealth at 65 percent, saying providers should be...
The US government’s financial watchdog is advising lawmakers to wait a while and gather more data before deciding on whether to permanently expand telehealth coverage for Medicare and Medicaid...
Arizona Governor Doug Ducey has signed legislation that greatly expands telehealth coverage in the state, including allowing audio-only telehealth services in certain circumstances and permitting...
Virginia Senator Mark Warner is once again urging the federal government to fulfill a long-delayed plan to allow healthcare providers to prescribe controlled substances via telehealth.
In a letter...
Veterinarians are suing the state of California for the right to use telehealth.
A federal lawsuit has been filed this week by several veterinarians and the San Francisco Society for the Prevention of...
Will the fourth time be the charm for the CONNECT for Health Act?
The massive telehealth bill – officially known as the Creating Opportunities Now for Necessary and Effective Care Technologies...
Montana Governor Greg Gianforte has signed legislation that permanently expands coverage of and access to telehealth beyond the coronavirus pandemic.
HB 43, which was approved by both chambers of the...
Lawmakers are re-introducing a bill aimed at extending Medicare coverage for home health services delivered by telehealth during a public health emergency.
S. 1309, introduced on April 22 by US...
Federal officials are quietly withdrawing a Trump administration plan to end regulatory review of 83 types of mHealth devices, saying the original plan was flawed and could have put the lives of...
New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy has rejected a telehealth bill recently approved by the state’s Legislature because it doesn’t go far enough.
Murphy conditionally vetoed SB 619 and A 1635,...
