A group of 30 senators from both sides of the aisle on Monday urged leadership to make permanent the expansion of telehealth services that has been undertaken during the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n
The letter to Senate Majority Leader\u00a0Mitch McConnell<\/a>\u00a0(R-Ky.) and Senate Minority Leader\u00a0Charles Schumer<\/a>\u00a0(D-N.Y.) calls for provisions from the CONNECT for Health Act included in previous COVID-19 legislation be extended after the public health emergency is over.<\/p>\n \u201cAmericans have benefited significantly from this expansion of telehealth and have come to rely on its availability,\u201d said the lawmakers led by Sens.\u00a0Brian Schatz<\/a>\u00a0(D-Hawaii) and\u00a0Roger Wicker<\/a>\u00a0(R-Miss.). \u201cCongress should expand access to telehealth services on a permanent basis so that telehealth remains an option for all Medicare beneficiaries both now and after the pandemic.”<\/p>\n Telehealth has grown in popularity during the coronavirus pandemic as a safer alternative to in-person visits.<\/p>\n The services help doctors work with patients diagnosed with COVID-19 without putting themselves at risk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A group of 30 senators from...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26008"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26008\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26009,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26008\/revisions\/26009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}