Healthcare regulators in Iowa have released new guidelines that allow physician assistants, speech-language pathologists and audiologists to use telehealth.
The state’s Board of Physician...
Support is growing for a bill before both chambers of Congress that would make permanent some very specific emergency measures that were designed to boost telehealth access and coverage in rural areas...
The federal government is seeking comments on issues related to spectrum for the Internet of Things, including broadband connectivity needed for remote patient monitoring and telehealth programs and...
A new study finds that while telehealth has surged during the pandemic, providers haven’t solved many of the issues that kept adoption low prior to COVID-19.
J.D. Power’s 2021 US...
California Governor Gavin Newsom has extended an Executive Order enabling physicians to conduct routine and non-emergency telehealth services without risk of being penalized for the inadvertent release...
Several organizations are making an extra effort to lobby for expanded telehealth coverage for rural healthcare providers beyond the pandemic.
While telehealth advocates have been lobbying the Centers...
A federal review has found that no state Medicaid programs are analyzing how telehealth affects the quality of behavioral health services even though many are offering virtual care coverage during the...
Telehealth advocates are petitioning lawmakers to boost the budget for the nation’s network of telehealth resource centers (TRCs), noting they’ve seen an 800 percent increase in business...
Telehealth advocates are asking the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to amend the proposed 2022 Physician Fee Schedule to permanently extend emergency measures on telehealth access and...
The federal government is strengthening efforts to ensure than mHealth apps and connected devices protect personal health information.
The Federal Trade Commission this week issued a policy statement...
A proposed bill to expand telehealth services in Alaska to deal with the ongoing pandemic has died, and its supporters are blaming partisan politics.
SB 3006, recently introduced by Governor Mike...
Federal officials are ditching a plan to speed up Medicare coverage for innovative mHealth technology, saying the Trump-era plan would have put patients at risk.
The Centers for Medicare &...
South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem has signed an executive order that aims to ban telemedicine abortions throughout the state.
The executive order targets the South Dakota Department of Health and its...
A Florida man has pleaded guilty to a kickback conspiracy that exploited temporary COVID-19 Medicare telehealth policies meant to increase access to care for Medicare beneficiaries.
Co-owner of Panda...
With remote patient monitoring projects surging in popularity as a result of the pandemic, telehealth advocates are lobbying the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to improve proposed...
The American Academy of Pediatrics has issued a policy statement on telehealth that calls for, among other things, payment parity and more efforts to address the social determinants of health....
House Democrats have introduced a resolution aimed at pressuring the federal government to loosen the reins on telehealth for abortion services.
US Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-NY), Chairwoman of the House...
A pair of Congressmen are once again floating a bill that would mandate payment parity for telehealth services and require payers to cover the same telehealth services that Medicare covers.
The...
The federal government is investing more than $19 million in key telehealth initiatives, including the National Consortium of Telehealth Resource Centers (TRCs) and Telehealth Centers of Excellence...
Planned Parenthood is suing the state of Montana over recently-passed legislation that would ban the use of telehealth in abortions.
The national organization’s Montana chapter has filed a...
