The behavioral health industry must now double down on efforts to ensure post-COVID era telehealth regulations don’t inadvertently make telehealth a second-class care modality, according to a panel at the Behavioral Health & Well-Being Congress, reports Behavioral Health Business.
“We are in a chicken and an egg situation where if we’re concerned about telehealth and we put a bunch of restrictions on telehealth … we will create the [situation] that we were worried about because then we create telehealth that is substandard care and then it can’t be equal to in-person care,” Chris Adamec, vice president at the advocacy group Alliance for Connected Care and the health care-focused lobbying firm Sirona Strategies, said.
The critical aspects of the conversation about go-forward telehealth regulation include concerns about the quality of care offered, its accessibility and its safety. Read more.
