Vermont Department of Health: Suicide Data-Linkage Project The Vermont Department of Health released a report, funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), which documented the statistics and put forward recommendations for trying to reduce the upward trend of suicide in Vermont. About 76 percent had health insurance and had seen a [...]
California Health Care Foundation: Telehealth Use and Experiences Among California Adults California’s Medi-Cal program is leveraging telehealth to meet patient needs. Many of the telehealth coverage and reimbursement flexibilities enacted during the pandemic were made permanent in 2022, including payment parity for services provided in person or by telehealth. This issue brief uses data from [...]
FAIR Health: Nationwide Telehealth Use Held Steady in June According to Fair Health's Monthly Telehealth Regional Tracker, telehealth sessions comprised 5.4 percent of claim lines in June, the same amount as the prior month. Mental health conditions continued to top the list of Fair Health’s five most common telehealth diagnoses for June. The median allowed amount [...]
Health Affairs: A Study Of Patients’ Experiences Selecting Telehealth Versus In-Person Care Approximately one-third of behavioral health patients seeking therapy or medication visits said their clinicians did not offer both telehealth and in-person care. The study conducted by RAND Corporation found that 45 percent of behavioral health patients did not believe their clinicians considered their preferences for [...]
BMC Medicine: Telehealth in Antenatal Care This narrative review examines the impact of telehealth on obstetric care. The review found that adoption of telehealth technologies may improve the antenatal care experience for women and reduce health care expenditure without adversely impacting health outcomes for the mother or baby. Health economic studies also suggest telehealth has [...]
JAMA Health Forum: Telehealth and In-Person Mental Health Service Utilization and Spending, 2019 to 2022 Trends in mental health service utilization and spending before expiration of the public health emergency (PHE) in May 2023 are largely undocumented. Researchers assessed monthly telehealth vs in-person utilization and spending rates for mental health services among commercially insured US adults between [...]
Software Advice: 95 Percent of Patients Say Telehealth is Easiest Way to Access Health Services Software Advice, an information services company, conducted a survey in which 95 percent of participating patients reported telehealth to be the easiest option when seeking a diagnosis. Additionally, 67 percent of the respondents rated the process as "extremely easy." Software [...]
JAMA Network Open: Telemedicine Visits in US Skilled Nursing Facilities Skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) in the United States rapidly adopted telehealth during the COVID-19 pandemic, which was linked to improved access to psychiatry visits. Researchers found that, compared with 2018-2019, SNFs with high telehealth use in 2020-2021 provided about 20.2 percent more psychiatry visits per resident [...]
PR Newswire: Remote Patient Monitoring Adoption Increased over 300 Percent in Two Years Vivalink, a digital health care solutions provider, announced results of a survey on the state of RPM adoption and the rapid rise of acute RPM and hospital-at-home programs. The survey found that eighty one percent of clinicians are currently using RPM on [...]
National Governors Association (NGA): Implementing Best Practices Across The Continuum Of Care To Prevent Overdose The NGA released a Roadmap for Governors, which contains recommendations that represent evidence-based and promising actions states and territories can consider as they work to strengthen the Continuum of Care for people at risk for overdose, including those with substance use disorder [...]