Bipartisan Push Resumes For Telehealth As Excepted Benefit

A bipartisan group of lawmakers introduced legislation that would permanently expand access to stand-alone employer-sponsored telehealth benefits, a move applauded by telehealth lobbyists scrambling to extend the provision beyond the May 12 end of the COVID-19 public health emergency (PHE). With the deadline rapidly approaching, telehealth stakeholders are making a final push for extensions of policies -- like telehealth services as an excepted benefit -- that were left out of Congress’ recent two-year extension of most pandemic telehealth waivers. During...