Rollbacksin telehealth regulations could prove controversial and affectpatient safety — from relaxing restrictions on opioid prescriptionsvia video to easing licensing requirements. (Photo:Shutterstock)
On March 17, Medicare chief Seema Verma stepped to the podium ata White House coronavirus briefing and unveiled a "historic action" to promote virtualmedical care, or telehealth.
Verma temporarily lifted a variety of federal restrictions onthe use of the service, which had been limited to rural areas. Shepraised telehealth, saying it could handle routine care for anolder patient with diabetes without risking a visit to a medicaloffice. She said a Medicare recipient with mild flu-like symptomscould receive advice from a doctor at home "instead of leaving thehouse and sitting in a waiting room full of other vulnerablepeople."
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