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Professor Terry in The Atlantic: Telehealth Offers Revenue Source During COVID-19
05/13/2020
A May 12 story in The Atlantic reports that thousands of Americans have shifted to teletherapy since the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services—the main government insurer—said it would begin to pay for telehealth visits on a much broader and consistent basis “for the duration of the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency.”
IU McKinney Professor Nicolas Terry offered his view on one reason why telehealth might be here at least for the duration of the crisis. “If you’re in a situation where all of your regular treatment models have been shut down, you’ve got to find a revenue source,” Professor Terry said. “So suddenly getting some money from telehealth doesn’t seem so bad.”
Professor Terry is the Hall Render Professor of Law at IU McKinney School of Law, where he serves as the Executive Director of the Hall Center for Law and Health and teaches various healthcare and health policy courses.
His recent scholarship has dealt with health privacy, mobile health, the Internet of Things, Big Data, AI, and the opioid overdose epidemic. One of the permanent bloggers at Harvard Law School’s Bill of Health, Professor Terry regularly hosts the “The Week in Health Law” podcast at TWIHL.com, and he is @nicolasterry on twitter.
