Friday, November 11, 2022, came and went with no big announcement from Health & Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra, which means that federal policies affecting telemedicine will remain unchanged for at least 60 more days, or through January 11, 2023. Telemedicine is also affected by state regulations, but the relaxation of federal rules on hospitals […]
As the impact of the coronavirus pandemic became apparent in March 2020, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services waived existing restrictions on telemedicine services. That expansion of coverage created an opportunity to study changes in usage patterns before and after services suddenly became available to a large population. Authors of one such study published […]
The threat posed by COVID-19 has upended daily life all over the globe. The switch from pre-COVID normal to COVID abnormal was jarring, but as time goes on, some of those changes will persist as the new normal. Telemedicine, for example, was a long time coming, became outpatient medicine’s new ballgame practically overnight, and now […]