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Healthcare groups submit letter for telehealth fix in legislative package

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More than 450 groups implored lawmakers to more permanently support telehealth services in a letter to House and Senate leadership.

Telehealth advocates and providers submitted a letter to lawmakers, prompting them to let Medicare permanently foot the bill for telehealth services since the short-term extension of telehealth flexibilities expired at the end of September, when the congressional budget impasse began.

Since the shutdown (caused by the lack of agreement over