Patients and doctors want states to continue pandemic-era licensing exemptions so medical providers can continue seeing patients remotely; “We have been left behind to get worse,” one patient said via StephArmour1 RWhelanWSJ
States are curbing access to telehealth services that were expanded during the pandemic, prompting some doctors and businesses to lobby for a permanent expansion of remote care that they say some patients need.
Some hospitals, doctors and telehealth providers say making pandemic allowances for telehealth services permanent would expand access to care and treatment. Her insurer told her in June that it would no longer cover out-of-state telehealth visits, meaning she would have to drive about two hours to visit each of her doctors instead. She said that the trip is too difficult for her to make regularly and that because of the rarity of her conditions, there aren’t appropriate specialists in her state. She has been forgoing appointments that were conducted virtually last year.
Kara Ditto, a psychiatrist in Virginia, sees more than 200 patients in Georgia via a telepsychiatry startup called MindStrong using a temporary license granted after demand for mental-health services exploded during the pandemic. Mental-health patients are at particular risk if their care regimens are disrupted, said Nicole Christian-Brathwaite, a psychiatrist in Massachusetts. “You really shouldn’t change clinicians midstream,” she said.
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