What does December 31, 2024, mean to you? New Year’s Eve? Post-2024 election? Too far away to know?
Our answer: December 31, 2024, is when we will go over a “telehealth cliff” if Congress fails to act before that date, directly impacting care and access for Medicare beneficiaries. What is this telehealth cliff?
Multiple states – including Alaska, Wisconsin and New Jersey – have been busy finalizing legislation and rulemaking to adopt interstate compacts and amend and clarify telehealth-related standards of care.
What else have these states been up to over the last month?
The Biden administration recently announced that 28 healthcare payors and providers intend to implement and adhere to voluntary commitments for the safe, secure and trustworthy development and deployment of artificial intelligence (AI) in healthcare. The signatory companies aligned around the FAVES principle—namely, that AI should lead to healthcare outcomes that are fair, appropriate, valid, effective and safe.
Numerous states—including Alaska, Florida, Texas, Utah and Washington—have been busy finalizing and proposing rulemaking and legislation impacting telehealth-related care. Washington’s Department of Health, for example, published a proposed rule focused on implementing the multistate nurse licensure compact.
What else have these states been up to over the last month?
Numerous states—including Florida, Texas and Michigan—have been busy finalizing telehealth-related rulemaking and legislation. Michigan’s proposed bills, for example, push for coverage parity across insurers and payment parity.
What else have these states been up to over the last month?
On October 30, 2023, the Biden administration released a long-awaited Executive Order (EO) on the “Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence.” The EO acknowledges the transformative potential of AI while highlighting many known risks of AI tools and systems. It directs a broad range of actions around new standards for AI that will impact many sectors, and it articulates eight guiding principles and priorities to govern the development and use of AI.
California Governor Gavin Newsom recently signed Assembly Bill 352 and Assembly Bill 254 into law, effective January 1, 2024. Through these new laws, California seeks to mitigate the risk of out-of-state prosecution of individuals seeking abortions or gender-affirming care. These bills include significant changes to California privacy and health information interoperability laws that will impact healthcare providers, health plans, employers, electronic health record developers and certain digital health companies handling medical information related to gender-affirming care, abortion, and abortion-related services, sexual health, fertility or contraception.
As more telehealth providers offer weight-loss programs, they should be aware of the potential impact of state laws and regulations. In this blog post, we examine how Florida’s consumer protection laws affect these programs.
Numerous states—including Alaska, Wisconsin, Ohio and Oregon—have been busy finalizing rulemaking and legislation advancing hybrid healthcare models, modernizing licensure infrastructures and incentivizing telehealth. What have these states been up to over the last month?
Numerous states—including Louisiana, Ohio, California, Tennessee and New Jersey—have been finalizing rulemaking and legislation that create or amend professional practice standards to incorporate telehealth. Several of these states have also proposed regulations or laws related to the provision of care to youths.
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