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Telehealth and Outpatient Utilization: Trends in Evaluation and Management Visits Among Medicare Fee-For-Service Beneficiaries, 2019-2024

medRxiv: Telehealth and Outpatient Utilization: Trends in Evaluation and Management Visits Among Medicare Fee-For-Service Beneficiaries, 2019-2024 Prior to the pandemic, telehealth accounted for just 0.1% of monthly E&M visits but surged to 41.0% in April 2020 before stabilizing between 5.7% and 7.0% in 2023-2024. The average monthly E&M visit rate per 1,000 FFS beneficiaries [...]

Alliance for Connected Care2025-03-11T11:27:32-04:00March 6th, 2025|

Association Between Telehealth Use and Downstream 30-Day Medicare Spending

medRxiv: Association Between Telehealth Use and Downstream 30-Day Medicare Spending The objective of this study was to investigate whether healthcare visits initiated by telehealth had higher or lower 30-day spending compared to in-person-initiated visits. The study compared the overall spending, rates of return visits, laboratory tests, and imaging procedures within 30 days for Medicare [...]

Alliance for Connected Care2025-03-11T11:29:46-04:00February 11th, 2025|

Nature Research Intelligence: Several Virtual Care Studies

Nature Research Intelligence: Several Virtual Care Studies The Nature Research Intelligence released several topic summaries on virtual care including: Appointment Non-Attendance in Outpatient Health Care Settings – This summary reviewed the impact of telehealth on appointment adherence and found telehealth showed promise in reducing no-show rates. Tele-Audiology and Hearing Healthcare During the COVID-19 Pandemic [...]

pbrown2025-05-05T16:04:25-04:00January 30th, 2025|

JMIR: Regulation and Compliance in Telemedicine

JMIR: Regulation and Compliance in Telemedicine Researchers discussed critical challenges in telemedicine compliance and regulation. They specifically consider obstacles and progress toward solutions in telemedicine law and regulation regarding privacy and security issues, care across state borders, and prescribing over telemedicine in the United States. The findings suggest that simplified policies are needed to [...]

pbrown2025-05-05T16:07:21-04:00January 27th, 2025|

Journal of Substance Use and Addiction Treatment: Feasibility and Acceptability of the Delivery of a Group Telehealth Intervention for Patients Receiving Buprenorphine for Opioid Use Disorder

Journal of Substance Use and Addiction Treatment: Feasibility and Acceptability of the Delivery of a Group Telehealth Intervention for Patients Receiving Buprenorphine for Opioid Use Disorder Patients receiving buprenorphine treatment for opioid use disorder (OUD), their support persons, and clinic staff were interviewed about their perceptions of a novel group telehealth intervention for support [...]

pbrown2025-05-05T16:09:33-04:00January 23rd, 2025|

Frontiers in Endocrinology: Remote Patient Monitoring Program for Diabetes

Frontiers in Endocrinology: Remote Patient Monitoring Program for Diabetes The prevalence of diabetes continues to rise in the United States along with a shortage of endocrinologists. One proposed solution to this challenge is to deliver more specialty health care services through remote patient monitoring (RPM). In an RPM program for diabetes care at the [...]

pbrown2025-05-05T16:14:32-04:00January 22nd, 2025|

Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE): Trends in Medicaid and CHIP Telehealth

Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE): Trends in Medicaid and CHIP Telehealth ASPE released a report, which examined national trends in telehealth service delivery to enrollees ages 0-18 years from 2019 to 2021, by enrollee characteristics such as age group and race and ethnicity. Services delivered via telehealth to pediatric [...]

pbrown2025-05-05T15:58:46-04:00January 17th, 2025|

Departments of Labor, HHS, Treasury: Report to Congress on the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act

Departments of Labor, HHS, Treasury: Report to Congress on the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act The Departments of Labor, HHS, and Treasury issued the 2024 Report to Congress on the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act enforcement and implementation, which highlighted the ongoing efforts of the Departments to strengthen and enforce [...]

pbrown2025-05-05T15:55:54-04:00January 17th, 2025|

Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE): Barriers to Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder Diagnosis in Adults

Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE): Barriers to Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder Diagnosis in Adults Through an environmental scan and key informant interviews with clinical experts and people with lived experience of being diagnosed with ADHD in adulthood, this report explored the process by which ADHD is diagnosed in adults, barriers and facilitators to diagnosis, [...]

pbrown2025-05-05T15:23:53-04:00January 13th, 2025|

Journal of Telemedicine and Telecare: Psychotherapy for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Delivered via Video Telehealth in the Veterans Health Administration (VHA)

Journal of Telemedicine and Telecare: Psychotherapy for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Delivered via Video Telehealth in the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) Trauma-focused evidence-based psychotherapy (EBP) is the recommended treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). During and after the COVID-19 pandemic, veterans began to initiate general mental health services delivered via video telehealth at high rates. [...]

pbrown2025-05-05T15:32:53-04:00January 9th, 2025|

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