Floridians' access to telehealth could suffer as state order expires

Florida healthcare providers are going back in time. The growing emergence of telehealth, or telemedicine, as a way to deliver health care has been a silver lining during the COVID-19 pandemic. But after Gov. Ron DeSantis let an executive order declaring a public-health emergency expire Saturday, many regulatory flexibilities that health-care providers received during the pandemic, including flexibilities related to telehealth, also expired.