Lower pay for telehealth, direct billing for NPs and PAs come up for discussion.
|Videos|July 18, 2023
American Telemedicine Association - Time for changes, but not quickly
Author(s)Logan Lutton , Richard Payerchin
An overview of the legislative process to change American telehealth law.
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Physicians and patients sometimes must respond quickly to situations involving health. Congress sometimes works much more slowly. Kyle Zebley, senior vice president for public policy of the American Telemedicine Association and executive director of ATA Action, explains how general congressional gridlock, and questions that lawmakers want answered, have slowed down the process for major telemedicine law reforms.
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