Healthcare IT Today June 3, 2021
John Lynn

For a while now I’ve been waiting for the government to do the telehealth studies that are needed to make telehealth reimbursement something that’s going to last long term. I’d heard from my telehealth policy friends in Washington that prior to the pandemic there were many in Washington that were afraid to reimburse telehealth visits because they weren’t sure of the implications of doing so. Would there be overuse? Would there be fraud? etc etc etc.

Thanks to the pandemic, we now should have all the data that’s needed to understand the real impact of doing telehealth. At least that’s what I think should be the case. Although, one thing I hadn’t remembered was that you can make statistics say...

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