LEBANON Even as the COVID-19 emergency has ended, Dartmouth Health continues to see as many as 700 outpatients a day via telehealth, which became vital for maintaining access to care during the pandemic, according to the medical director of.
Before the pandemic, Medicare paid for only narrow uses of remote medicine, such as emergency stroke care provided at hospitals. But the pandemic brought a “seismic change in perception” and telehealth “became a household term.”
Congress $1.7 trillion omnibus spending package included a 2-year extension of pandemic-era funding that helped telehealth services grow nationwide during the pandemic. But will that become permanent?