FAIR Health: Share of Patients with Mental Health Diagnoses Rose 40 Percent Nationally from 2019 to 2023 FAIR Health released a white paper, which found that nationally, the share of patients with mental health diagnoses rose 39.8 percent, from 13.5 percent of patients who received medical services in 2019 to 18.9 percent in 2023. [...]
The Alliance for Connected Care sent a letter to the American Medical Association’s (AMA) CPT Editorial Panel in response to its May 2024 meeting agenda, which includes Tab 38 – Remote Monitoring. The Alliance appreciates the consideration of stakeholder feedback into the revised proposal to ensure coding for remote physiologic monitoring (RPM) and remote [...]
Applied Clinical Trials: The Future Fit of Wearables for Patient-Centric Clinical Trials Wearable technology integration holds immense value in clinical trials. By incorporating these devices into clinical trial protocols, researchers can gather comprehensive data while minimizing participant burden. The technology allows for extended monitoring of patients’ health parameters, such as vital signs, medication adherence, [...]
Clinical Diabetes: A Qualitative Study of Adapting Telehealth Systems for Specialty Diabetes Care Across Four California Medical Centers Telehealth continues to play an important role in specialty diabetes care, but there are variations in how this care is delivered. This article reports on clinician and clinic staff perspectives on providing specialty telehealth diabetes care [...]
Health Affairs: Telemedicine’s Impact on Use, Spending, And Quality To inform the ongoing debate about whether to continue payment for telemedicine visits, researchers from Harvard University, and RAND Corporation conducted a study on telemedicine use across health systems with utilization, spending, and quality. In 2021–22, relative to those in the lowest quartile, Medicare patients [...]
This update includes: Alliance Submits Statement for Record for House E&C and W&M Hearing Alliance Co-Leads Letter to DEA Alliance Leads Over 200 Organizations Urging Congress to Act on Telehealth and notable research and news developments
FAIR Health: Mental Health Conditions Account for 66 Percent of Telehealth Claim Lines Nationally in January 2024 Telehealth accounted for 4.8 percent of all medical claim lines nationally. Telehealth utilization varied by region, from a high of 6.3 percent of all medical claim lines in the West to a low of 3.6 percent in [...]
Government Accountability Office (GAO): Telehealth Usage by the Coast Guard GAO released a report on telehealth usage by the Coast Guard. The report describes how the Coast Guard uses telehealth to provide medical care to its active-duty personnel, as well as describes telehealth benefits and challenges identified by Coast Guard officials and documents. [...]
The Alliance for Connected Care submitted a statement for the record to the House Energy & Commerce Committee, Health Subcommittee for the legislative hearing, "Legislative Proposals to Support Patient Access to Telehealth Services." The Alliance focused its comments on: The need for urgent action in extending Medicare telehealth provisions through December 31, 2024 to [...]
JAMA Internal Medicine: Telephone-Based Guideline-Directed Medical Therapy Optimization in Navajo Nation In this heart failure trial in Navajo Nation, a telephone-based strategy of remote initiation and titration for outpatients with heart failure with reduced ejection fraction led to improved rates of guideline-directed medical therapy at 30 days compared with usual care. This low-cost strategy [...]