14 Feb, 2023
Federal Telehealth Flexibilities in Private Health Insurance During the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency: In Brief [February 14, 2023]
Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service
Kehres, Katherine M.
From the document: "The Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) public health emergency (PHE), first declared by the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) on January 31, 2020, was most recently renewed on January 11, 2023, and the Biden Administration has announced plans to end the emergency on May 11, 2023. 1 Prior to the COVID-19 PHE, there were no federal requirements that private health insurance plans offer telehealth coverage, nor were there prohibitions on such coverage. Certain other federal requirements presented difficulties for private health insurance plans that sought to quickly add telehealth coverage as part of their response to the COVID-19 PHE. [The sections of this document] describe the federal flexibilities created in response to such issues and when those flexibilities are to end."
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  • Author
    Kehres, Katherine M.
  • Publisher
    Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service
  • Report Number
    CRS Report for Congress, R47424
  • Date
    14 Feb, 2023
  • Copyright
    Public Domain
  • Retrieved From
    Congressional Research Service: crsreports.congress.gov/
  • Format
    pdf
  • Media Type
    application/pdf
  • Subjects
    COVID-19 (Disease)--Government policy
    Medical telematics
    Health insurance policies
  • Resource Groups
    Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19)
    Reports (CRS)
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