Katea Ravega Featured in "Top Health Experts Talk Telehealth Regulation, Health Inequality"
Katea Ravega participated in Fierce Healthcare's webinar entitled "COVID Changed Everything – A Look at the Evolving Healthcare Consumerism Landscape Amid a Pandemic" on Tuesday, April 20. A post-event article summarized key insights from Katea and other healthcare professionals regarding the state of telehealth and what to expect for the future.
Below is an excerpt:
"People focus on the laws and for years in the telehealth space in particular overutilization, waste cost, fraud, fear about quality … have been used to deny or restrict access to care through digital health," Katea Ravega, attorney at Quarles & Brady LLP, said. "Now coming out of the pandemic we are going to have a lot of data. Over the past year since you have had all the waivers in place, there is going to be new information to be used to develop better laws and policies in this space."