Manatt Health has developed a federal and comprehensive 50-state tracker for policy, regulatory and legal changes related to telehealth during the COVID-19 pandemic.
A group of bipartisan Energy and Commerce members sent a letter this week to Secretary Xavier Becerra urging HHS to work with Congress to develop a comprehensive telehealth strategy for Medicare beneficiaries to continue accessing critical virtual care services following the expiration of the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency.
Truveta, a company formed to aggregate patient data for medical research, has attracted three new hospital partners: MedStar Health in Washington D.C.; and the Dallas-area providers Baylor Scott & White and Texas Health Resources.
While doctors and patients in the United States are quickly embracing telehealth, human resource departments are offering these same services to their employees.
Telemedicine is here to stay. But its free-for-all era may be coming to an end. State-issued emergency declarations and insurer policies that were issued at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic and that were meant to encourage the use of telemedicine are being phased out across U.S. states, one by one.
On June 23, 2021, Delaware Governor John Carney signed House Bill 160, the Telehealth Access Preservation and Modernization Act of 2021 (the “Bill” or “HB160”) which continues and enhances Delaware residents’ access to telehealth services and, through the adoption of the Interstate Medical Licensure Compact (the “Compact”), ensures that telehealth services can be provided through qualified medical practitioners in a streamlined and efficient pathway to licensure that, according to the Bill’s supporters, meets the health care delivery system needs of the 21st century.