Healthcare Innovation October 20, 2021
Center for Connected Health Policy recommends that policymakers continue to make audio-only available as an option, work to decrease digital divide
The Center for Connected Health Policy (CCHP) recently conducted a study examining the use of audio-only as a modality to provide services from Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs) to Medicaid patients. CCHP offered several recommendations to policymakers regarding the use of audio-only by FQHCs to deliver services beyond the pandemic.
The CCHP, a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization working to maximize telehealth’s impact, found that although FQHCs are in a unique position to help fill the need for at-risk patients, they have faced a complex matrix of state and federal policies that govern the use of telehealth at their centers.
Although...