BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Harvard Law School//NONSGML Events//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN X-WR-CALNAME:Harvard Law School - Events X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://hls.harvard.edu/calendar/ X-WR-CALDESC:Harvard Law School - Events BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20230217T1927Z-1676662038.7314-EO-507659-1@10.73.1.32 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20240329T041707Z CREATED:20230217T170731Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230217T170731Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230313T113000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230313T123000 SUMMARY: Achieving Telehealth’s Potential: The State Policy Landscape for I nterstate Telehealth Practices DESCRIPTION: Telehealth has been an invaluable tool for preserving health c are access during the pandemic. Early in the pandemic\, policymakers on the federal and state level moved with remarkable speed and implemented a seri es of temporary changes to promote telehealth\, including expanding reimbur sement and modifying licensure requirements. In response\, telemedicine use skyrocketed\, and both providers and […] X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
Telehealth has been an invaluable tool for preserving health care access during the pandemic. Early in the pandemic\, policymakers on the federal and state level moved with remarkable speed an d implemented a series of temporary changes to promote telehealth\, includi ng expanding reimbursement and modifying licensure requirements. In respons e\, telemedicine use skyrocketed\, and both providers and patients have exp ressed a strong preference to maintain telemedicine as a staple of healthca re delivery. However\, most of these temporary regulatory changes will be rolled back after the public health emergency expires. This has prompted an ongoing debate at both the state and federal level on which of these chang es should be permanent.
Physician licensure is a particular focus of debate. Prior to the pandemic\, most states required a physician to be lice nsed in the state in which the patient is located\, and reinstating this st andard—which was among those relaxed during the COVID-19 crisis—will be a m ajor deterrent to interstate telehealth use. Patients will have to drive ac ross state lines to have virtual consults with specialized experts\, and pr oviders will be dissuaded from developing truly national telehealth practic es.
This event\, the final of three in a series\, explores some of th e state leadership\, challenges\, and opportunities to build interstate tel ehealth practices.
CATEGORIES:Speaker/Panel LOCATION:Zoom GEO:40.712728;-74.006015 ORGANIZER;CN="Laura Chong":MAILTO:lchong@law.harvard.edu URL;VALUE=URI:https://hls.harvard.edu/events/achieving-telehealths-potentia l-the-state-policy-landscape-for-interstate-telehealth-practices/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 DTSTART:20230312T070000 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR