Fierce Health Payers March 2, 2021
House health subcommittee chair Rep. Anna Eshoo said Tuesday it’s time to make telehealth flexibilities enacted during the COVID-19 pandemic permanent to help close gaps in care.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) waived many telehealth payment policies during the public health emergency which helped to open up access to virtual care. It drove 10.6 million Medicare beneficiaries to use telehealth visits by the end of July, Eshoo said during a Committee on Energy and Commerce health subcommittee hearing.
“The wide adoption of telehealth has been a bright spot during a very dark time in our country,” she said. “For the first time, we’ve had substantiative data on the quality and the use of telehealth at scale.”
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