For most of 2021, health care providers dealt with the implications of COVID-19 on their professional practices. While providers struggled to care for patients amid COVID-19 contagion concerns, federal and state regulatory efforts that began in 2020, and have continued throughout 2021, have significantly helped ease the path to greater provision of services via telehealth, reports The National Law Review.
Now, more than a year and a half into the pandemic, federal and state governments have continued to support flexibilities put into place during the height of the pandemic that have promoted increased use of telehealth, both as lessons learned and to help lawmakers and regulators decide which temporary changes should, perhaps, be made more permanent. Read more.
