Foley & Lardner LLP’s recently announced 2024 50-State Telehealth Survey has garnered extensive media coverage for its detailed report on the nation’s telehealth landscape.
The report is featured in the Fierce Healthcare article, “Survey: Here’s how the legal landscape for telehealth insurance coverage has changed since 2019,” for its assessment of key figures on each state’s telehealth commercial insurance coverage and payment/reimbursement laws.
POLITICO highlighted the report’s main takeaways, including that more than a third of states passed legislation to permanently enshrine audio-only telemedicine coverage for health plans since 2019, 33 states now have laws on telehealth payment parity or payment rates, and that waiving telehealth restrictions during the public health emergency “did not result in widespread quality of care failures nor increase fraud [and] abuse.”
mHealth Intelligence and Business Insurance noted that mental and behavioral health care has generally benefited from expansions in telehealth and emphasized the timeliness of the report, which comes as federal telehealth policy takes a significant step forward with the United States House Ways and Means Committee advancing a bill that would extend several pandemic-era telehealth flexibilities.
Telehealth.org said the report is a “foundational resource” and a “key tool for understanding the current telehealth insurance landscape,” and Modern Healthcare cited the report’s findings in a story on telehealth’s importance for patients and providers in rural and underserved areas.
To access the full report, click here.