BMC Primary Care: Telemedicine in Primary Care of Older Adults This study found that telemedicine was beneficial for people with limited mobility, reducing their exposure to potentially high-risk environments. Health care professionals reported that most older adults did not consider a phone consultation as a medical act. Older adults were open to a hybrid approach, [...]
Bipartisan Policy Center (BPC): Positioning Telehealth Policy to Ensure High-Quality, Cost-Effective Care The Bipartisan Policy Center released an update to its federal telehealth policy recommendations. BPC assessed peer-reviewed research and government reports to offer targeted suggestions to guide policymakers as they consider the future of telehealth. Notable policy recommendations include: Congress should require CMS [...]
JAMIA Open: Telemedicine Appointments Are More Likely to be Completed Than In-Person Healthcare Appointments This study found that telemedicine appointments are more likely to be completed than in-person care appointments, regardless of demographics, comorbidity, payment type, or distance. The percentage of completed telemedicine appointments were associated with 64 percent higher odds of completion than [...]
Journal of Clinical Child & Adolescent Psychology: A Comparison of Telehealth and In-Person Therapy for Youth Anxiety Disorders This study examined outcomes for youth with anxiety disorders treated via telehealth during the COVID-19 pandemic and youth treated via in-person therapy prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. The study found that cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) both [...]
Harvard Review of Psychiatry: Finding Our Lanes: A Roadmap for Collaboration Between Academic Medical Centers and Behavioral Telehealth Companies Outpatient mental health care in the United States is delivered by an uncoordinated patchwork of public and private entities that struggle to effectively differentiate the care they provide. The authors review the current landscape of [...]
Alliance Wins in the Proposed Medicare Fee Schedule July 11, 2024 While CMS does not currently have statutory authority to waive geographic and originating site restrictions for telehealth, it has proposed a number of important steps to preserve access to telehealth in the CY2025 Physician Fee Schedule. Extension of provider location reporting flexibility: Proposed continuation [...]
Journal of General Internal Medicine: Unveiling the Adoption and Barriers of Telemedicine in US Hospitals Telemedicine has emerged as a vital healthcare delivery model, especially pronounced during the COVID-19 pandemic. This study aimed to investigate the trend in telemedicine adoption across hospitals from 2017 to 2022. The study found that telemedicine encounters saw a [...]
JAMA Network Open: Telehealth Availability for Mental Health Care During and After the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency This cohort study of 1001 mental health treatment facilities (MHTFs) found a small decline in MHTFs offering telehealth subsequent to the end of the PHE and found larger declines in availability of audio-only telehealth services and care [...]
JAMA Network Open: Predeductible Coverage and Receipt of Telemental Health Visits This study found that when patients were required to pay out of pocket for telehealth visits, they had substantially fewer telemental health visits, and a larger fraction stopped seeing their mental health specialists. These findings imply that the expiration of the predeductible telehealth [...]