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Telemedicine in a Post-Pandemic World: Joe Rotella, Brooke Calton, Carly Zapata

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One positive change that came about was the lifting of restrictions around the use of telemedicine. Clinicians could care for patients across state lines, could prescribe opioids without in person visits, could bill at higher rates for telemedicine than previous to the pandemic. The pandemic was horrific in many ways. Joe: Right.

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Trump Whacks Agency That Makes the Nation’s Health Care Safer

Physicians News Digest

But neither Kennedy nor President Donald Trump have explained why individual agencies such as AHRQ were targeted for cuts or indicated whether any of their work would continue. At the height of the covid pandemic, he said, data produced by AHRQ and other government sources were outclassed by private sources. million, he said.