mHealth Intelligence January 29, 2024
Last year, most states only tweaked their telehealth policies and laws, showing progress toward a more flexible telehealth landscape has slowed, per a new report.
State action on telehealth policy and regulation stalled in 2023, apart from a few states that made significant changes, according to a new report.
Released by the Cicero Institute, the third annual 50-state telehealth innovation report card examines telehealth policy changes in the past year. The report grades every state’s telehealth laws in four areas: modality-neutral telehealth laws, the ability to start telehealth by any mode, barriers to out-of-state telehealth, and independent practice for advanced practitioners.
Telehealth policy updates that passed last year mostly tweaked the edges of existing policies, the report authors stated.
“Many...