Here are four states that are working to establish permanent telehealth access and coverage post pandemic:
1. A Colorado Senate committee on June 3 passed a bipartisan bill that aims to uphold patients’ ability to receive care via telehealth that was implemented during the COVID-19 public health emergency.
2. The Rhode Island Senate Health and Human Services Committee on May 27 advanced a bill that would permanently require payers to cover telemedicine services at the same rate as in-person services.
3. Illinois’ House passed a bill in late May that would have extended Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s executive order in March that requires insurers to reimburse telehealth services at the same rate as in-person. However, the legislation did not come up for a Senate vote before lawmakers adjourned, according to Bloomberg. The Partnership for Connected Illinois project is now studying telehealth’s benefits to lobby lawmakers, according to the report.
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