Some Stakeholders Eye State Registries, Compacts -- Not Feds -- To Expand Interstate Telehealth

A leading telehealth lobby and representatives of practitioner interstate licensing boards think the future of cross-state licensing in the United States will involve an increase in state telehealth registries, such as the one that exists in Florida, and universal license recognition that currently exists in Arizona and Pennsylvania. They also expect even more states to adopt some of the eight interstate licensing compacts currently available, such as the Interstate Medical Licensure Compact and others for health care professionals like advanced...