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Recap — $200 million COVID-19 Telehealth Program
2 min readApr 8, 2020
- $200 million emergency COVID-19 Telehealth Program to implement the CARES Act and ensure access to connected care services and devices in response to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and surge in demand for connected care services.
- We also establish a longer-term Connected Care Pilot Program (Pilot Program) within the Universal Service Fund (USF or Fund) that will make available up to $100 million over three years to examine how the Fund can help support the trend towards connected care services, particularly for low income Americans and veterans. The Pilot Program will help defray eligible health care providers’ costs of providing connected care services, with a particular emphasis on supporting these services for eligible low-income Americans and veterans.
- Wireline Competition Bureau (Bureau) to review the COVID-19 Telehealth Program applications, select participants, and make funding awards on a rolling basis until the funding is exhausted or until the current pandemic has ended, consistent with the criteria outlined in this Report and Order.
- “connected care services” as a subset of telehealth that uses broadband Internet access service-enabled technologies to deliver remote medical, diagnostic, patient-centered, and treatment-related services directly to patients outside of traditional brick and mortar medical facilities — including specifically to patients at their mobile location or residence.
- The COVID-19 Telehealth Program will only fund…
