Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC): Percentage of Children and Adolescents Who Used Telemedicine During the Past 12 Months The percentage of children and adolescents aged 0–17 years using telemedicine during the past 12 months declined from 18.3 percent in 2021 to 14.2 percent in 2023. Telemedicine use declined across all three age [...]
Journal of Substance Use and Addiction Treatment: In-Person Opioid Use Disorder Assessment Unnecessary for Treatment-Seeking Patients At the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, federal agencies permitted telehealth initiation of buprenorphine treatment for opioid use disorder (OUD) without in-person assessment. This prospective observational longitudinal cohort study found that participants with OUD had low rates of [...]
The Alliance for Connected Care provided comments to the calendar year (CY) 2025 Medicare Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS) and Ambulatory Surgical Center (ASC) Payment System proposed rule. As reflected in the comments below, the Alliance urges CMS to recognize payment for genetic counselors providing care virtually, expand its proposal on virtual cardiac rehabilitation, and [...]
The Alliance for Connected Care provided comments to the calendar year (CY) 2025 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (PFS) proposed rule. As reflected in the comments below, the Alliance appreciates CMS for ensuring certainty to telehealth access to Medicare beneficiaries to the extent it could. The Alliance is committed to leveraging telehealth and remote patient monitoring [...]
Health Affairs: Telehealth Delivery By Physician And Practice Characteristics Researchers from Cornell examined 2022 Medicare fee-for-service claims to understand how physician characteristics impacted telehealth use. Researchers found that female physicians, primary care physicians, psychiatrists, and physicians in nonrural practices delivered relatively higher proportions of visits via telehealth. Overall, 23 percent of psychiatrists delivered all [...]
Academic Pediatrics: Social Determinants Pediatric Primary Care Telehealth and In-Office Visits During the SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic In this retrospective cohort study of children -17 years across 16 sites within Nationwide Children’s Hospital Primary Care Network from March 22nd-July 31st, 2020, researchers compared visit type (in-person vs. telehealth), demographics, presence of individual social needs, and community [...]
Nature Digital Medicine: Closing the Gap: Addressing Telehealth Disparities Across Specialties in the Sustained Pandemic Era Telehealth has surged as a viable solution to reduce no-shows and improve health care accessibility, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic. However, telehealth disparities and its long-term efficacy across various medical specialties remain understudied. This retrospective analysis examined telehealth use and [...]
JAMA Network: State Medical Boards and Interstate Telemedicine in the Courtroom Despite the convenience and value of telehealth, many states have rolled back COVID-19 pandemic–era flexibilities and reimposed strict licensure requirements for telemedicine. Thus, as it was prepandemic, so it is again that a physician, duly licensed in their home state, is prohibited from [...]
Frontiers: The Effect of Telemedicine Employing Telemonitoring Instruments on Readmissions of Patients with Heart Failure and/or COPD Hospital readmissions pose a challenge for modern healthcare systems. This study aimed to assess the efficacy of telemedicine incorporating telemonitoring of patients' vital signs in decreasing readmissions with a focus on a specific patient population particularly prone [...]