HealthLeaders Media July 18, 2024
Eric Wicklund

A licensure compact for social workers would enable health systems and hospitals to expand telehealth outreach and include social workers in more programs.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

– A key barrier to telehealth expansion is the requirement that care providers apply for and receive a license to practice in each state in which they see patients.

– Telehealth advocates have long supported efforts like licensure compacts, which allow providers to practice in member states with just one license.

– A federal effort to create a licensure compact for social workers would enable providers to expand behavioral health and SDOH programs that depend on social workers to access key resources outside the health system.

A new licensing compact could help health systems and...

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