Becker's Healthcare October 15, 2021
Hannah Mitchell

Congress has set aside legislation to make telehealth permanent to focus on President Joe Biden’s higher priorities, Bloomberg Law reported Oct. 15.

Five things to know:

  1. While negotiating the infrastructure bill to expand Medicaid and Medicare, lawmakers haven’t found the opportunity to bring telehealth to the table, according to the report.
  2. For most states, when the public health emergency ends, so will telehealth flexibilities.
  3. Lawmakers lack the motivation to make temporary telehealth waivers permanent because the public health emergency...

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Topics: Congress / White House, Digital Health, Govt Agencies, Health IT, Insurance, Patient / Consumer, Provider, Regulations, Technology, Telehealth
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