{"id":19811,"date":"2022-05-26T08:10:04","date_gmt":"2022-05-26T12:10:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=19811"},"modified":"2022-05-26T08:10:06","modified_gmt":"2022-05-26T12:10:06","slug":"key-senate-panel-wants-to-axe-in-person-requirement-for-virtual-mental-health-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=19811","title":{"rendered":"Key Senate panel wants to axe in-person requirement for virtual mental health services"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(By Rachel Cohrs for ST<em>A<\/em>T) <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 A bipartisan group of senators working on mental health policy have proposed axing a requirement that would have restricted seniors\u2019 access to services via telehealth, they announced Thursday.  Continue reading <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2022\/05\/26\/key-senate-panel-wants-to-ax-in-person-requirement-for-telemental-health-services\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2022\/05\/26\/key-senate-panel-wants-to-ax-in-person-requirement-for-telemental-health-services\/\">here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"21\" class=\"wp-image-4372\" style=\"width: 200px;\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/STAT-Logo.png\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/STAT-Logo.png 453w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/STAT-Logo-300x32.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><strong>Notice:&nbsp;<\/strong>The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Rachel Cohrs for STAT) WASHINGTON \u2014 A bipartisan group of senators working on mental health policy have proposed axing<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,6,48,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legislative-update","category-medicare-general","category-mental-healthbehavioral-health","category-telehealth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19811"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19811\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19812,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19811\/revisions\/19812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}