Telehealth

Representative Vern Buchanan (R-FL) has introduced two pieces of bipartisan legislation to improve access to telehealth and lung cancer screenings. The telehealth bill, known as the Permanent Telehealth from Home Act, would remove the originating site and geographic limitations for telehealth services, meaning it can be accessed anywhere. Although limitless access is currently part of […]

US Representative Gregory Steube’s (R-FL) Women’s Protection in Telehealth Act would prevent health care providers offering telehealth services for abortions from receiving Medicare funds. The act would prohibit access to medicare funds to health care providers who prescribe chemical abortion pills without physically examining a patient prior to such prescription. A single telehealth abortion-related service […]