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AN ACT CONCERNING TELEHEALTH. To: (1) Extend the sunset date for certain provisions of public act 20-2 of the July special session to May 30, 2022; (2) provide that a health insurer may pay a reduced reimbursement to a health care provider who provides a covered benefit to an insured through telehealth, provided the amount of such reduced reimbursement shall be equal to at least fifty per cent of the reimbursement that the health insurer would have paid to the health care provider if the health care provider had provided the covered benefit to the insured in person; and (3) prohibit a health care provider from seeking reimbursement for an in-person covered benefit if the provider previously sought reimbursement for the same covered benefit provided to the same insured through telehealth.