Telehealth-delivered behavioral health services spiked 45-fold since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to new data from market research firm Trilliant Health.
To assess behavioral health...
Update: President Joe Biden signed the bill into law on Dec. 29, 2022.
Update: The bill passed both chambers of Congress and was sent to President Joe Biden as of Dec. 23, 2022.
The...
The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS) has launched Test to Treat programs that leverage telehealth at 13 locations across the state.
The launch is part of the federal COVID-19...
Telemental health company Done Health is facing federal scrutiny over its prescribing practices for controlled substances, according to The Wall Street Journal.
The report states that the US Drug...
CVS Health and Walmart will no longer fill prescriptions for controlled substances provided by telemental health companies Cerebral and Done. Health.
CVS Health confirmed the decision in an emailed...
Alabama, Kentucky, New Hampshire, and Pennsylvania are considering or have passed bills governing telehealth services.
In Alabama, the state Senate passed a bill that creates laws regulating...
Seventy-two organizations, including the American Telemedicine Association and American Psychiatric Association, have sent a letter to government agencies urging them to solidify continued access to...
In 2020, medication abortions accounted for 54 percent of all abortions performed in the US, a growing trend supported by the increase in telehealth use, according to a new report.
Released by the...
The fate of Roe v Wade — the landmark 1973 case that led to the legalization of abortion in America — appears to be in jeopardy, and as a result, abortion providers are preparing for a world where abortion access is severely...
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...
New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy has signed into law a bill that allows healthcare providers to prescribe medical marijuana via telehealth.
Murphy’s signature on SD 619/A 1635 follows his...
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...
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,...
The Biden Administration is supporting the use of telehealth to facilitate medication abortions during the coronavirus pandemic.
Acting US Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Janet Woodcock...
The COVID-19 threat pushed more people onto telehealth platforms for cardiovascular care, according to new research out of Cedars-Sinai. But it also led to fewer tests and medications.
Those takeaways...
Congress will be taking a serious look at expanding telehealth coverage for mental health and substance abuse services this year.
Last week Senators Tina Smith (D-MN) and Lisa Murkowsky (R-AK)...
South Dakota lawmakers have rejected a bill that would have allowed healthcare providers in the state to use telehealth to prescribe medical marijuana.
The state’s House of Representatives shot...
A Florida state legislator is using the “addition by subtraction” approach in an effort to improve the state’s telehealth regulations.
HB 247, introduced this week by State Rep. Tom...
Telehealth advocates are once again putting pressure on the US Drug Enforcement Agency to finalize a special registration process so that care providers can use telemedicine to prescribe certain...
New Jersey state officials have expanded telehealth guidelines to enable providers to remotely prescribe medical marijuana during the coronavirus pandemic.
An Administrative Order issued this week by...
