However, due to the pandemic 28 states made apists and clinical mental health counselors as able to use specific mention of teledentistry allowances when it came audio-only.21 This represented a dramatic increase in the use to audio-only telehealth expansion in state-level executive of telehealth for behavioral health services. [...] Telehealth connects patients and healthcare providers in For instance, during the pandemic, a limited number of states separate locations, but state regulations often mandate that allowed NLC and PTC practitioners to provide services via patients and their providers be within the same state lines telehealth across state lines.53 Map 3 shows the states that to initiate care.48 Telehealth has the ca. [...] Overall, the sharp increase in telehealth usage at the beginning of the pandemic was driven more by behavioral and mental telehealth than by physical telehealth.56 The soaring popularity of behavioral telehealth is a product of not only the circumstances of the pandemic, but also the growing comfort and satisfaction that patients 56. [...] THE FUTURE OF TELEHEALTH IN THE UNITED STATES This paper’s survey of the major telehealth modalities— audio-only, live video, store-and-forward and cross state licensing—shows that states drastically expanded access to 57. [...] The regulatory telehealth expansion during the pandemic, represents the environment for telehealth in the United States has changed biggest telehealth change in a state thus far.60 New York and significantly, and is moving in the direction of a more free West Virginia have also recently enacted bills permanently and innovative health care delivery system.
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