W&M Rural Task Force Calls For Telehealth Flexibility With Guardrails

House Ways & Means rural health task force members on Thursday (Aug. 6) called for extending telehealth flexibilities beyond the pandemic, and some members stressed a need to add guardrails. Meanwhile, some stakeholders warned the task force that telehealth is not the solution to long-standing structural challenges in health care. Rep. Terri Sewell (D-AL), a taskforce co-chair, said at Thursday’s roundtable that COVID-19 caught the country off-guard, and the promise of telehealth hadn’t been realized, but “we are going to...