Lexology June 25, 2020
As technology has advanced over the years, there has been a corresponding push for virtual visits with health care providers. In fact, many state boards of medicine and other regulatory agencies have sought to amend regulations and guidances to make telehealth a reality for patients across the U.S. However, despite the technical allowance for telehealth, many regulatory, privacy, and financial barriers have stood in the way of allowing telehealth to be the norm — that is, until the COVID-19 pandemic.
Once shelter-in-place orders went into effect across the country, there was great appeal to patients in being able to still get medical treatment and advice without leaving the safety of their homes. Thus, federal and state regulators acted quickly to...
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