A health policy researcher with the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice calls for some state actions and changes to the healthcare system in response to COVID-19 to be "boundless and permanent." In this article, he focuses on deregulatory trends in healthcare policy: reciprocity of occupational licenses, relaxing requirements for inactive licensees to return to practice, expanding scope of practice, lifting telemedicine regulations, and temporarily suspending continuing education requirements.
April 08, 2020
