Studies

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 [...]

Foley & Lardner LLP: 2024 50-State Telehealth Survey Foley & Lardner LLP released the third edition of its 50-State Survey of Telehealth Insurance Laws, which provides a detailed report on each state’s telehealth commercial insurance coverage and payment/reimbursement laws and compares these laws before and after the Public Health Emergency (PHE). Notable changes from [...]

HealthAffairs: Remote Physiologic Monitoring Use Among Medicaid Population Increased, 2019–21 Remote physiologic monitoring use increased more than 1,300 percent from 2019 to 2021, and use varied by state. Remote physiologic monitoring facilitates the use of technologies, including wearable devices and mobile applications, to transmit health data such as heart rate, blood pressure, and blood oxygen levels [...]

Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA): Behavioral Health Among Older Adults SAMHSA released an infographic report highlighting substance use and mental health indicators among older adults aged 60 or older in the United States. Notably, the report includes telehealth in SAMHSA’s definitions of substance use treatment and mental health treatment. [...]

Harvard Medical School: What Are the Most Popular Video-Based Medical Visits? Researchers analyzed more than 277 million visits within the Veterans Affairs Health Care System from January 2019 to August 2023. Scientists found that video-based visits remain close to the peak pandemic level of about 12 percent, which is a 2,300 percent increase from [...]