From Carolina Journal Radio Program No. 766: Telemedicine can play an important role in the future of North Carolina health care. But that doesn’t mean the state needs a law forcing insurers to pay health care providers the same amount of money for services provided through technology as they would for in-person visits. Katherine Restrepo, the John Locke Foundation’s director of health care policy, explains why North Carolina should not follow the lead of other states that have adopted so-called “telemedicine parity” laws.
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