Federal Telehealth Support Program Faces Collapse Without Budget Increase

Updated Story Regional and national telehealth resources centers face a risk of shutting down if they do not receive a $10 million increase proposed in HHS’ fiscal 2024 budget request, and a bipartisan group of senators is spearheading a letter pressing congressional appropriators to back the request. Without the increase in funds, the centers will imminently lose staff and scale back their telehealth resources on which the federal government, state Medicaid programs and federally qualified health centers...