Telehealth Boomed During the Pandemic - and so Did Telehealth Fraud
Prior to the pandemic, telehealth was basically nonexistent, with one study clocking the percentage of “virtual” doctors’ visits before Covid-19 at zero percent. At the time, America’s largest insurer, Medicare, only covered telemedicine in limited circumstances that usually still involved a visit to a healthcare facility. Medicare’s coverage limitations demonstrated the Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) concerns that expanding telehealth would lead to a proliferation of fraud schemes,...