Senate Finance Telehealth Draft Requires CMS Continue To Embrace Interstate Compacts

By Cara Smith / June 3, 2022 at 4:10 PM

The Senate Finance Committee deals with the hot-button issue of telehealth across state lines by sidestepping setting up a federal licensing scheme and instead requiring that CMS ensure Medicare and Medicaid coverage of virtual behavioral health services involving providers and patients in different states that have voluntarily joined interstate licensure compacts.



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