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...
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...
Telehealth use by physicians jumped from 25 percent in 2018 to almost 80 percent in 2020, while almost 85 percent of psychiatrists connected with the patients via video visit or telephone during the...
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...
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...
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...
A new study out of the University of California at San Francisco finds that an overwhelming number of patients who underwent telemedicine abortions at a California clinic during the height of the...
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...
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...
A federal judge has shot down Indiana’s ban on telemedicine abortions.
US District Judge Sarah Evans Barker ruled on Tuesday that state laws banning telehealth and requiring in-person exams by a...
A Montana Congressman wants to improve rural healthcare access by ensuring Medicare coverage for asynchronous (store-and-forward) telehealth programs throughout the country.
The Rural Telehealth...
North Carolina will now allow dentists to offer telehealth services.
Governor Roy Cooper recently signed into law SB 146, which sets standards for the practice of teledentistry in the state. Among...
With the pandemic limiting access to in-person healthcare, audio-only telehealth has surfaced as a popular platform for care delivery. But it’s not good for all (or even many) services, and...
Illinois Governor JB Pritzker has signed one of the country’s most progressive telehealth bills, with provisions that establish payment parity for telemental health services and give patients the...
Telehealth advocates have launched another effort to prompt Congress to establish a post-pandemic connected health policy.
The eHealth Initiative is leading a new letter-writing effort to permanently...
Two Congressmen have re-introduced a bill that would prompt payers to cover any telehealth service that’s also offered in-person.
The bill, unveiled last week by US Reps. Dean Phillips (D-MN)...
Telehealth coverage has significantly increased across the country during the coronavirus pandemic, but the challenge lies in maintaining that coverage after the pandemic is over, according to a...
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...
