Two States Work on Removing Telemedicine Stumbling Blocks

Colorado’s Division of Workers’ Compensation is taking steps to encourage the use of telemedicine in treating injured workers, even as another state, Texas, moves toward removing a stumbling block. The Texas DWC last month released an informal draft rule that would expand the circumstances in which an injured worker could be treated via telemedicine. Texas currently allows telemedicine, in which a doctor treats a patient remotely using computer and video systems. But telemedicine within the state’s workers’ compensation system is limited by Medicare-based reimbursemen...