Medical providers are pushing Congress to help them make permanent telehealth provisions they came to rely on during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Bills backed by dozens of lawmakers aim to permanently enshrine pandemic-era flexibilities around digital health-care services, Bloomberg reports. Some of the flexibilities offered by the bills include removing in-person examination requirements for online health-care services, allowing employers to offer standalone telehealth benefits to their employees, and removing the requirement that patients pay a deductible for health care administered via telehealth. Read more.
