Telehealth Boosters, Lawmakers Aim to Lock In Policy Changes

The new year is poised to be consequential for online health care as several pandemic-era telemedicine measures are set to phase out, leaving many in the industry anxious over which will be kept, telehealth policy watchers said.

Congress’s legislative agenda for 2024 will include industry-backed bills aiming to permanently extend flexibilities that patients and providers came to rely on during the Covid-19 public health emergency.

Flexibilities on the line include provisions that address the scope of Medicare reimbursement to telemedicine providers, telehealth access for underinsured Americans, and online controlled substance prescribing, along with several other policies that were instrumental in ...