Interstate Telehealth Licensure Improved Access to Care During Pandemic 

During the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic, states moved to temporarily allow health care providers licensed in other states to practice in their own jurisdictions with the goal of addressing staffing shortages and increasing access to telehealth. Many in the managed care industry have hoped that these short-term reforms would become permanent, with the goal of cutting costs and preserving telehealth access, but health policy experts are just beginning to make sense of the impact interstate licensure had during the early pandemic. 

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Peter Johnson

Peter Johnson

Peter has worked as a journalist since 2011 and has covered health care since 2020. At AIS Health, Peter covers trends in finance, business and policy that affect the health insurance and pharma sectors. For Health Plan Weekly, he covers all aspects of the U.S. health insurance sector, including employer-sponsored insurance, Medicaid managed care, Medicare Advantage and the Affordable Care Act individual marketplaces. In Radar on Drug Benefits, Peter covers the operations of (and conflicts between) pharmacy benefit managers and pharmaceutical manufacturers, with a particular focus on pricing dynamics and market access. Before joining AIS Health, Peter covered transportation, public safety and local government for various outlets in Seattle, his hometown and current place of residence. He graduated with a B.A. from Colby College.

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