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 [...]
JAMA Network: Interstate Telemedicine in the Courtroom – Response and Reply Barak Richman, a professor at the Duke Law School, published a viewpoint analysis in August urging for state medical boards to permanently adopt the pandemic flexibilities that supported interstate telemedicine. Charles Kels, senior attorney at the Department of Homeland Security, published a response, [...]
ASPE: Medicaid Behavioral Health Providers Delivering Most Behavioral Health Services via Telehealth ASPE released a study, which examined the extent to which Medicaid providers who deliver behavioral health services shifted their practices to mostly tele-behavioral health services during the COVID-19 pandemic. This study found that the proportion of providers who delivered more than 80% [...]
ASPE: Use of Medicare-Covered Telerehabilitation for PT/OT/SLP Services during the COVID-19 PHE ASPE released a study, which examined the extent therapist practices and nursing homes adopted telehealth services for physical therapy (PT), occupational therapy (OT), and speech-language pathology (SLP); explored the major challenges and facilitators in adopting telerehabilitation services, and whether these services were [...]
ASPE: Trends in In-Person and Telehealth-Involved Controlled Medication Initiations Among Adults with Private Insurance This data brief presents trends in the initiations of selected, frequently prescribed controlled medications among individuals with private health insurance coverage. Results show that the majority of privately insured individuals received their initial controlled medication prescriptions without telehealth involvement, throughout [...]
Drug and Alcohol Dependence: Patient and Provider Experiences with Opioid Use Disorder Care Delivered Via Telehealth Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic and loosening of some opioid use disorder (OUD) treatment regulations in the U.S., there has been a rapid rise in the use of telehealth for buprenorphine induction, maintenance, and counseling (tele-bupe). [...]
Journal of Medical Internet Research: Statistical Analysis of Telehealth Use and Pre- and Postpandemic Insurance Coverage in Selected Health Care Specialties This study analyzed telehealth use across specialties in Arkansas before and after the pandemic (2017-2022) using data from electronic medical records from the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Medical Center. The study [...]
Journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care: Assessing the Disruption of Health Services During the COVID-19 Pandemic A Rutgers Health study suggests telehealth could be a viable long-term option for people living with HIV, potentially saving them time, effort and expense related to in-person medical visits. The study found patients receiving in-person [...]