Expiration of State Licensure Waivers and Out-of-State Telemedicine Relationships

Eric Bressman; Rachel M Werner; Daniel Cullen; Benjamin Ukert; Benjamin A Barsky; Jennifer L Kowalski; Ateev Mehrotra

doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2023.43697

Expiration of State Licensure Waivers and Out-of-State Telemedicine Relationships

JAMA Netw Open. 2023 Nov 1;6(11):e2343697. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2023.43697.

Authors

Eric Bressman^{1

2

3}, Rachel M Werner^{1

2

3}, Daniel Cullen⁴, Benjamin Ukert^{4

5}, Benjamin A Barsky⁶, Jennifer L Kowalski⁴, Ateev Mehrotra^{7

8}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia.
² Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.
³ Corporal Michael J. Crescenz Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
⁴ Elevance Health, Indianapolis, Indiana.
⁵ Texas A&M University, College Station.
⁶ Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
⁷ Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.
⁸ Division of General Medicine and Primary Care, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts.

No abstract available

Plain language summary

This cross-sectional study compares the use of telemedicine in states where COVID-19 pandemic–related licensure waivers expired vs states where waivers continued.

MeSH terms

Licensure, Medical*
Telemedicine* / legislation & jurisprudence