by Marlene | Sep 13, 2021 | Legislation, Telehealth, Telehealth coverage, Telehealth Legislation, Telehealth Reimbursement
While in-person care was restricted for safety reasons, the public health emergency (PHE), governments issued numerous waivers to extend telehealth coverage to make healthcare available. Several states have discontinued telehealth coverage or launched new laws to keep...
by Marlene | Jul 4, 2021 | Disparites, Legislation, Licensure, Medicare, Post-Pandemic, PSYPACT, Telehealth Legislation, Telehealth Reimbursement, Telepsychology, Uncategorized
Controversies are raging about the continuation of telehealth services and particularly telehealth reimbursement. Areas of contention about the future of telehealth as the nation starts to emerge from COVID include Medicare telehealth, Medicaid telehealth, telehealth...
by Marlene Maheu, Ph. D | Jun 10, 2021 | COVID-19, Legislation, Licensure, Telehealth, Telehealth Legislation, Telehealth Reimbursement, Telemedicine
While 2020 virtual health care policies during the public health emergency are starting to wane, more than 600 bills supporting new telehealth laws are currently pending at both the federal and state levels. Congressional measures largely support the expansion of...
by Kathy Judy | Mar 22, 2021 | HHS, Legal, Legislation, PSYPACT
Prior to the pandemic, only 2.4% of employer health plans used telehealth in 2018. A few months into the pandemic, telehealth accounted for approximately 7 in 10 medical visits and Amazon is announcing that they will soon offer telehealth services to employers. The...
by Romaisa Asim | Feb 9, 2021 | COVID-19, Legislation
, The Equal Access to Care Act was reintroduced this week after having been submitted last year, and dying in committee. It would expand access to telehealth licensure to treat patients in any state for up to six months beyond the COVID-19 pandemic. The bill’s...
by Marlene | Dec 22, 2020 | Legislation, Medicare
On Monday evening of 12/21/2020, the US Congress passed a $2.3 trillion appropriation bill that delivers $900 billion in new COVID-19 relief and $1.4 trillion to fund the federal government through September 30, 2021. The Omnibus Appropriations and Coronavirus Relief...
