30 Senators Want Telehealth Restrictions Lift Made Permanent
Communications Subcommittee ranking member Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii, and Commerce Committee Chairman Roger Wicker, R-Miss., led a letter Monday with 28 other senators to “make permanent” language included in the Coronavirus Aid Relief and Economic Security Act and other COVID-19 bills…
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from the Creating Opportunities Now for Necessary and Effective Care Technologies for Health Act. HR-4982/S-2741, refiled in October (see 1910300023), aims to expand telehealth services through Medicare. Language from it increased access during the pandemic (see 2003250046). “Americans have benefited significantly from this expansion of telehealth and have come to rely on its availability,” the senators wrote Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., and Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y. “Congress should expand access to telehealth services on a permanent basis so that telehealth remains an option for all Medicare beneficiaries."