Wicker Highlights University of Mississippi-C Spire Telehealth Partnership as National Model
Senate Communications Subcommittee Chairman Roger Wicker, R-Miss., urged the FCC Thursday to view the University of Mississippi Medical Center's Center for Telehealth and its partnership with C Spire as national models “for telehealth expansion across” the U.S. as the agency…
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examines ways to provide rural telehealth access beyond the confines of the USF Rural Health Care Program. The FCC issued an order last month raising the RHCP cap to $571 million to account for 20 years of inflation and address a funding shortfall and rising demand. The Pai-proposed order got unanimous support from the commissioners (see 1806060057, 1806140017, 1806190063 and 1806250042). The UMMC-C Spire partnership “allows rural patients to take preventative steps and avoid hospital stays, reducing costs and greatly improving patient outcomes,” Wicker said in a letter to FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr. “Supporting this type of partnership will open access to critical telehealth services for the estimated 23.4 million rural Americans who lack broadband today.”