The AMA recently published an article by Dr. Jack Resneck citing the explosive growth in telehealth services necessitated by the pandemic and how patients and providers benefitted once insurance carriers agreed to cover / pay for telehealth care. Dr. Resneck concludes: “In order to achieve higher-quality, more affordable care while addressing our nation’s chronic disease epidemics and unacceptable health disparities, we need to accelerate efforts to remove the barriers created by our current payment systems. The rapid expansion of telehealth access in the wake of COVID-19 showed us that the health system can innovate and adopt new systems rapidly when barriers are removed.”
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