COVID-19 has pushed aside issues like state-by-state licensing and billing rates that had slowed the adoption of telehealth services. Miriam Doerr Martin Frommherz/Shutterstock
The COVID-19 pandemic has forced sudden major changes to the nation’s health care system that are unlikely to be reversed.
“Health care is never going back to the way it was before,” said Gail Wilensky, a health economist who ran the Medicare and Medicaid programs for President George H.W. Bush in the early 1990s.