Becker's Healthcare October 15, 2021
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:
- 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.
- For most states, when the public health emergency ends, so will telehealth flexibilities.
- Lawmakers lack the motivation to make temporary telehealth waivers permanent because the public health emergency...