Virtual care news, trends and reimbursement updates
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Mental health treatment company Osmind is launching integrated Zoom virtual visits with mental health clinicians.
The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration has allegedly opened an investigation into ADHD telehealth provider Done, The Wall Street Journal reported Sept. 15.
Republican and Democratic lawmakers are looking to expand the availability of telehealth, which includes telehealth for Medicare patients and access to virtual opioid use disorder treatments, Politico reported Sept. 14.
Amazon joined hundreds of provider groups, hospitals and virtual care companies to send a joint letter to the U.S. Senate to pass a two-year extension of telehealth policies that were enacted at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Telehealth company Equum Medical has selected telehealth consulting firm Blue Cirrus Consulting to help build Equum's new virtual nursing telehealth offering.
Telehealth company DrHouse is offering free telehealth visits in New York for a limited time.
Teladoc named Saranya Loehrer, MD, as chief health equity officer.
Tuskegee (Ala.) University has rolled out a new on-campus virtual care station in collaboration with telehealth company OnMed that is available for no cost to students, staff and the community as a whole.
Telehealth use fell by 3.7 percent in June 2022, according to FAIR Health's Monthly Telehealth Regional Tracker.
Telehealth startup Choix will provide abortion pills to people who are not pregnant, so they can stock up, according to Sept. 8 reporting in the Daily Press.