AHIP Outlines Priorities For Post-PHE Telehealth Policy Changes

Lawmakers at the state and federal levels can continue the benefits of telehealth access by making permanent pandemic-era flexibilities, embracing audio-only visits, allowing telehealth across state lines, not requiring payment parity between virtual and in-person care, and using digital health to improve equity and mental health access past the end of the COVID-19 public health emergency, the health insurance lobby says in a new white paper. But the AHIP white paper warns that to cement such reforms, policy makers need...