MobiHealth News April 1, 2020
The proposal would fully fund telehealth services and devices for eligible healthcare providers, although some aren’t pleased with its exclusion of for-profit hospitals.
On Monday, Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai pulled back the curtain on a $200 million program that would combat the COVID-19 crisis by bankrolling telecommunications equipment and services for qualifying healthcare providers.
The plan is fueled by funds appropriated in the $2 trillion CARES Act signed by Congress and President Donald Trump late last week. If approved after review by the agency’s five commissioners, Pai wrote, the plan could bring additional telehealth services to more patients and provider organizations.
Our nation’s health care providers are under incredible, and still increasing, strain as they fight the pandemic,”...
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