Health Affairs: We Need National Policies For Voice-Based Telepsychiatry As of April 2024, no federal legislation or guidance has been implemented to establish permanence for telepsychiatry, and specifically for voice-based visits. With all telehealth flexibilities expiring at the end of 2024, in this piece, authors advocate for the permanent adoption and coverage of VBT, [...]
AARP: Pandemic-Era Trends in Telehealth Use among Americans with Private Health Insurance AARP released a report, which assessed changes in telehealth use from 2019 to 2021 among people younger than 65 who are enrolled in private, employer-sponsored insurance (ESI) plans, which insure nearly two-thirds of Americans under age 65. It also examined how Americans [...]
Kidney Medicine: Patient Perspectives on Using Telemedicine During In-Center Hemodialysis: A Qualitative Study In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, the United States (US) federal government expanded originating telemedicine sites to include outpatient dialysis units. For the first time, nephrology practitioners across the US could replace face-to-face visits with telemedicine for patients receiving in-center [...]
There are many obstacles to mental health care associated with regulatory restrictions on clinicians delivering services across state lines via audio, video, or other telehealth tools—limitations that adversely affect young people who need a doctor’s support while away from their home state for college, work, and travel. The Ruderman Family Foundation commissioned this white [...]
Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE): Trends and Disparities in Pandemic Telehealth Use among People with Disabilities This Issue Brief explores telehealth use for people and Medicare beneficiaries with disabilities. The study used data from the Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey (MCBS) COVID-19 2021 Winter Supplement and 2022 surveys, ASPE’s Medicare [...]
Telemedicine and e-Health: Telemedicine for the Underserved Racial and Ethnic Minorities During COVID-19 and Beyond This study aimed to demonstrate a culturally and linguistically appropriate telehealth protocol can be implemented to improve the glycemic control of patients as an extension of regular clinical services and provide continuity of care. This telehealth platform was integrated [...]
Journal of Cardiac Failure: Leveraging Remote Patient Monitoring to Effectively Put the Heart Failure Guidelines to Practice Guideline directed medical therapy (GDMT) effectively reduces morbidity and mortality for patients with heart failure (HF). Unfortunately, despite clear recommendations for initiating and titrating GDMT, optimization of GDMT in HF patients nationwide is staggeringly low. Remote patient [...]
JAMA Health Forum: Audio-Only Telehealth Use Among Traditional Medicare Beneficiaries Medicare expanded telehealth coverage during the COVID-19 pandemic, including for audio-only visits. In this cross-sectional study, telehealth visits as a proportion of all E&M visits and audio-only visits as a proportion of all telehealth visits decreased from 2020 to 2022. Nevertheless, audio-only visits represented [...]
Over 380 clinicians and practitioners signed a letter, requesting the DEA to issue a revised proposed rule to regulate the prescribing of controlled substances through telehealth as soon as possible to ensure adequate time for patients to continue existing care. To read a full copy of the stakeholder letter, please click here. [...]
On behalf of the Alliance for Connected Care and the many patients and clinicians we represent, I am writing to share our appreciation for your leadership in advancing important telehealth access – building on the dynamic hearing this spring on care in the home. Most notably, we have supported the Committee’s actions to avert the [...]