Out-of-state telehealth visits common during pandemic

In the first half of 2021, more than 422,500 patients with Medicare had an out-of-state telehealth visit, a recent study published in JAMA Health Forum found.
“The use of telemedicine across state lines has historically been limited, in part because of state-based licensure laws,” Ateev Mehrotra, MD, a professor of health care policy at Harvard Medical School, and colleagues wrote. “Before the COVID-19 pandemic, most physicians could only care for a patient physically located in another state if the physician was also licensed in that state. Early in the pandemic, in an

In the first half of 2021, more than 422,500 patients with Medicare had an out-of-state telehealth visit, a recent study published in JAMA Health Forum found.
“The use of telemedicine across state lines has historically been limited, in part because of state-based licensure laws,” Ateev Mehrotra, MD, a professor of health care policy at Harvard Medical School, and colleagues wrote. “Before the COVID-19 pandemic, most physicians could only care for a patient physically located in another state if the physician was also licensed in that state. Early in the pandemic, in an