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More telehealth, broadband, and Medicaid expansion discussions in the next legislative session
Published December 10, 2020
 Rep. Gale Adcock
People like medical appointments by video, a practice expanded in the coronavirus pandemic when government and private insurers agreed to pay medical providers the same as if they were seeing patients in their offices.
The popularity of telemedicine will likely continue after the fear of spreading the coronavirus infection in medical offices passes, said legislators and lobbyists at a Wednesday afternoon online forum hosted by The Insider. The NC Healthcare Association sponsored it.
“Patients have come to expect to be able to come get certain services through telehealth,” said Rep. Gale Adcock, a Cary Democrat and member of the House Health Committee. But telehealth further exposes inequities in broadband availability, she said. ....

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