Advocates Working To Ease CBO Scoring Of Telehealth Legislation

As a flurry of telehealth-related bills work their way through Congress, a not-for-profit telehealth research group is working to provide the Congressional Budget Office with data to prove telemedicine can save the federal government money. There are at least four pieces of telemedicine legislation currently pending on Capitol Hill, and telehealth advocates are concerned previous CBO scores that overestimated the cost of telemedicine could hold back such legislation. Many Medicaid programs include telehealth coverage and 34 of 50 states require...