Becker's Healthcare December 2, 2021
States would be rejecting a significant opportunity to improve healthcare delivery if they discontinue the telehealth policy relaxations enacted during the pandemic, Naomi Lopez, director of healthcare policy at the Goldwater Institute, wrote in a Dec. 2 op-ed for The Hill.
When the pandemic began, most states, along with CMS, relaxed telehealth regulations. Now some states are discontinuing those relaxations, and federal reforms are set to end once the public health emergency is over.
Some lawmakers fear that giving Americans more telehealth options would cause them to use such services more than needed and therefore increase healthcare spending. However, a recent study from Americans for Prosperity and the Progressive Policy Institute...
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