Healthcare IT Today March 22, 2022
For some time now, special pandemic rules have been in effect which allowed providers to offer various forms of government-funded telehealth. However, if no action was taken to head this off, these rules were due to expire with the official end of the COVID-19 public health emergency.
The American Telehealth Association has been pushing Congress to avoid having these options end immediately after the PHE ends, a result the ATA describes as having them fall off the “telehealth cliff.”
Apparently, the ATA’s lobbying efforts paid off. With the passage of the omnibus spending bill funding the federal government through October 1 of this year, Congress has extended the life of rules allowing for such flexibility for at least five months...
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