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A Fresh Perspective on Where Telehealth Growth Will Settle

During the height of the pandemic, McKinsey & Company issued a startling projection that as much as $250 billion of U.S. health care could become virtualized. A new McKinsey report notes that two-thirds of the office visits and outpatient care that they forecasted would be delivered virtually are now being delivered that way.

AHA backs legislation to protect access to telehealth services in rural areas

The AHA expressed support for the Protecting Rural Telehealth Access Act (S. 1988), legislation that would make permanent several telehealth flexibilities provided under the ongoing COVID-19 public health emergency.

AHA Senate Statement “COVID-19 Health Care Flexibilities: Perspectives, Experiences, and Lessons Learned”

Since the first COVID-19 cases were diagnosed and the pandemic changed the ways in which patients were able to access traditional health care settings, providers were required to navigate significant challenges to ensure their services were still able to reach millions of patients. In response, Congress and the Administration granted various flexibilities intended to improve access and facilitate the delivery of safe, quality care. As health care providers reflect on lessons learned and plan a post-pandemic course for the future, it is evident that several of the flexibilities have enhanced the patient experience and led to better outcomes.

AHA urges Congress, administration to continue certain health care flexibilities

In a statement submitted to the Senate Finance Committee for a hearing today on COVID-19 health care flexibilities, AHA urged Congress and the administration to make permanent certain health care flexibilities granted for the COVID-19 public health emergency that have enhanced the patient experience and led to better outcomes.

Blog: CMS should re-think its post-COVID-19 coverage strategy for tele-psychiatry services

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services should reconsider its decision to discontinue coverage of tele-audio services when the COVID-19 public health emergency ends, writes Blaine Greenwald, M.D., vice chair and director of geriatric psychiatry in the department of psychiatry at Zucker Hillside Hospital, Northwell Health's behavioral health center. Greenwald notes that a significant proportion of older adults without access to tele-video services are instead relying on tele-audio during the COVID-19 pandemic for their psychiatric appointments. As we mark May as Mental Health Awareness Month, read more about why hospital outpatient departments must mobilize to overcome tele-video capability disparities and why reimbursement for some post-PHE audio-only services should be reconsidered to protect the mental health of older Americans.

House committee examines path forward for patients in telehealth

At a House Ways and Means Subcommittee on Health hearing, health care stakeholders urged Congress to continue granting telehealth flexibilities to health care providers in an effort to best care for patients beyond the COVID-19 public health emergency. 

AHA Statement to the House on “Charting the Path Forward on Telehealth”

The increased use of telehealth since the start of the public health emergency (PHE) is producing high-quality outcomes for patients, closing longstanding workforce gaps and those that arose as a result of an overwhelmed, hardworking provider workforce, and protecting access for patients too vulnerable to risk infection. We urge Congress to consider how to ensure these flexibilities could remain in place for patients and health care providers beyond the PHE.

FCC announces 7-day window to apply for COVID-19 telehealth funding

The Federal Communications Commission will accept applications for COVID-19 Telehealth Program Round 2 funding from April 29 at 12 p.m. ET to May 6 at 12 p.m. ET.