HealthExec January 23, 2024
When policymakers eased rules and restrictions governing telemedicine in 2020, many patients and their doctors saw the change as one shiny silver lining in the very dark cloud that was the COVID-19 pandemic.
Unfortunately for them, the accommodation period was but a blip in time. As put by one physician lamenting the return to business as usual:
“Giving medical advice to an out-of-state patient over the phone can put me at risk of losing my license, and, in states such as California and New Jersey, of criminal charges as well.”
The physician is Shannon MacDonald, MD, a radiation oncologist at Mass General Brigham and an associate professor at Harvard Medical School.
MacDonald has taken to the pages of The Wall...
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