Licensure has often been cited as a barrier to the use of telehealth. With the possibility of COVID waivers expiring, the exemptions given to licensing requirements are beginning to disappear. This webinar will focus in on what the post-PHE landscape will look like and what are some of the methods that are being utilized to address the licensure issue.
Telehealth legislation continues to be introduced at the federal level, including the recently released Telemental Health Access to Care Act and the Connecting Rural Telehealth to the Future Act. On May 26th a bipartisan group of several U.S. Senators put out a discussion draft of the Telemental Health Access to Care Act as part of the Senate Finance Committee’s work regarding improving mental health access through telehealth. The bill would require Medicare coverage of mental health visits via telehealth by providers, including Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs) and Rural Health Clinics (RHCs) in certain instances.
This webinar is a part of CCHP’s Medicaid and State Telehealth Policy webinar series and will focus on the use of telehealth to deliver services in a school-based program. Learn how Medicaid and Education departments work together to ensure children receive the services they need.
As the federally designated National Telehealth Policy Resource Center, CCHP develops educational telehealth policy resources and provides technical assistance to those who have questions regarding state and federal telehealth policies. Recently, the most popular questions CCHP receives revolve around:
In response to these hot topics, we decided to dedicate this week’s write up to addressing these areas of focus in the hopes of adding some clarity to these sometimes-confusing areas of telehealth policy.
CCHP has created a quick reference diagram outlining telehealth policy as it falls within different levels of government for both sate and federal policy.
