ACP Letter to the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Regarding the Hearing Entitled, “Telehealth: Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic”

Letter to the HELP Committee with recommendations regarding telehealth policy during and after the COVID-19 public health emergency.

Robin Chichester

SARS-CoV-2; COVID-19; Coronavirus; virus; coronavirus disease 2019; United States Senate; U.S. Senate; Senate; Lamar Alexander; Patty Murray; U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions; HELP Committee; public health; prevention; infectious diseases; surveillance; flu; pandemic; outbreaks; epidemics; emergency preparedness; 116th Congress; national emergency; public health emergency; PHE; physicians; internal medicine specialists; crisis; outbreak; virus; national disaster; virtual consultations; telephone consultations; cost-sharing; public health emergency; telehealth; health workforce; underserved rural and urban communities; testing; Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services; CMS; physician workforce; Department of Health and Human Services; HHS; Federal Matching Assistance Percentage; FMAP; telemedicine; health information technology; health IT; HIT; telehealth payment; audio-only; telehealth services; geographical site restrictions; telemedicine; pay parity; remote patient monitoring; RPM; primary care practices; internal medicine; waivers; telehealth waiver; Office of Civil Rights; OCR; HIPAA; privacy; non-public facing synchronous video platforms; Telehealth Cost-Sharing Waivers; Interstate Licensure Flexibility; Flexibilities in Direct Supervision by Physicians at Teaching Hospitals

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