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Is the Interstate Medical Licensure Compact Good or Bad for Telehealth?

“(T)he compact protects the power of the state boards to shield physicians in their states from competition. It preserves the multiple fees physicians must pay to each state board,” Shirley Svorny, a California State University-Northridge professor of economics and adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute, wrote in a recent op-ed piece for the Wall Street Journal. “Most troubling, the compact has distracted attention from, and muted calls for, reforms that would realize telemedicine’s potential.”

 

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