Government Agencies Work Telehealth Policies Into Future Rulings

Plans for future telehealth rulings are scattered across multiple government agencies in the Biden administration’s 2022 unified agenda released late Tuesday (June 21), as government agencies scramble to regulate the rapidly expanding telehealth industry that developed during the COVID-19 pandemic. Most telehealth flexibilities currently are tied the COVID-19 public health emergency, and the Biden administration is pushing for telehealth to be incorporated in permanent agency policies. The Veterans Administration, Drug Enforcement Administration and FDA are planning to propose rules that...