Members of the House Ways and Means Health Subcommittee have introduced a bipartisan bill that seeks to ensure permanent access to telehealth services.
U.S. Rep. Lloyd Doggett (D-TX), who is the chair...
The American Hospital Association (AHA) and 15 other healthcare organizations have launched a campaign that aims to preserve telehealth access after the public health emergency has ended.
When the...
A pharmacy owner has been convicted for participating in a $174 million telemedicine fraud, waste, and abuse scheme that deceived pharmacy benefit managers, payers, and consumers.
Peter Bolos, age 44,...
Washington state's Office of the Insurance Commissioner has finalized regulations to implement the audio-only telehealth law that was passed in May.
The law requires payers to reimburse providers...
Telehealth policies vary from state to state but in the past few months there have been some common regulation changes across the country. Specifically, states modified their Medicaid reimbursement...
U.S. Representatives Diana DeGette (D-CO) and Fred Upton (R-MI) have introduced their finalized Cures 2.0 bill in the House which aims to expand access to telehealth for Medicare and Medicaid...
As temporary policies to expand access to telehealth inch closer to their expiration dates, states must decide which ones will be made permanent amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. A new report...
Four US Senators have introduced a bipartisan bill that seeks to make permanent a CMS policy that temporarily expanded Medicare coverage and reimbursement for certain telehealth services during the...
The American Telemedicine Association, along with 48 other stakeholder groups, have written a letter to Congress asking it to make permanent the regulatory flexibility that authorizes telehealth...
More than 200 organizations, including the Alliance for Connected Care, have penned a letter to governors and state legislatures urging them to maintain and expand telehealth licensure flexibilities...
A new bill before Congress aims to improve telehealth coverage, particularly for primary care services, in high-deductible health insurance plans.
The Primary and Virtual Care Affordability Act (HR...
The federal government is making a concerted effort to link broadband connectivity and telehealth to the nation’s infrastructure.
The Us Department of Agriculture last week unveiled more than...
The Federal Communications Commission has announced a third group of healthcare organizations to receive funding through the COVID-19 Telehealth Program.
Some 71 projects have qualified for roughly...
The Consumer Technology Association has created standards for the use of digital therapeutics in an effort to define and establish value for the mHealth platform.
“The biggest challenge in the...
Worried that Congress is too busy to take on long-term telehealth policy, telehealth advocates are calling on the Biden Administration to ensure that emergency measures enacted to expand access...
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality is asking for help from the public in assessing how telehealth has been used during the pandemic.
The agency last week published a request for...
Four states will receive federal funding to expand telehealth and other services in rural areas through an accountable care organization (ACO) model of care.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicare...
The American Psychiatric Association is tapping the brakes a little bit on the use of telehealth for addiction treatment, saying the potential is there but more proof is needed that virtual care...
With so many states allowing telehealth services delivered by out-of-state providers, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has clarified its policy on Medicare recognition of providers...
Lawmakers are making another push to improve telehealth access in rural America.
US Reps. Greg Pence (R-IN) and Angie Craig (D-MN) have introduced the Rural Telehealth Access Task Force Act (HR 5506),...
