MedCity News September 11, 2024
More than 330 provider organizations signed letters this week urging the White House and Congress to extend a pandemic-era telehealth prescribing flexibility. Failure to extend this policy would cause millions of Americans to lose access to treatment, they argued.
More than 330 healthcare organizations signed letters this week urging the White House and Congress to extend a telehealth prescribing flexibility that was introduced during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Failure to extend this policy would cause millions of Americans to lose access to “critically important healthcare treatment,” the organizations wrote.
In 2020, Congress waived a rule that required an in-person visit to establish a relationship between a patient and their provider before any prescriptions can be given via telehealth. The Drug...