A handful of Medicaid programs in Kansas are partnering with an addiction treatment company to give members access to care through telehealth.
Aetna Better Health of Kansas, Sunflower Health...
Avera Health is selling its telehealth business line, sending one of the nation’s largest and most innovative connected health programs into the private sector.
The South Dakota-based health...
North Carolina will now allow dentists to offer telehealth services.
Governor Roy Cooper recently signed into law SB 146, which sets standards for the practice of teledentistry in the state. Among...
A digital health collaborative launched in May has set its sights on developing best practices to address the social determinants of health.
The Digital Health Measurement Collaborative Community...
With the pandemic limiting access to in-person healthcare, audio-only telehealth has surfaced as a popular platform for care delivery. But it’s not good for all (or even many) services, and...
Hawai’i is launching a new program to bring digital literacy and telehealth services to libraries in underserved parts of the state.
The state’s Department of Health is partnering with the...
A new bill before Congress aims to expand the use of telehealth, remote patient monitoring, digital therapeutics and other connected health programs through demonstration projects for Medicare...
A pilot program in South Carolina is tackling the digital literacy divide with a program that teaches seniors how to use telehealth technology.
Supported by the South Carolina Department on Aging and...
Illinois Governor JB Pritzker has signed one of the country’s most progressive telehealth bills, with provisions that establish payment parity for telemental health services and give patients the...
Merck is partnering with a digital health company to launch a remote patient monitoring program aimed at people living with Alzheimer’s Disease.
The pharma giant and California-based Evidation...
A national non-profit that uses telehealth to provide mentoring and eConsult services to community health clinics has received a grant to help extend its platform.
The MAVEN Project, which currently...
Telehealth advocates have launched another effort to prompt Congress to establish a post-pandemic connected health policy.
The eHealth Initiative is leading a new letter-writing effort to permanently...
While the pandemic saw an across-the-board surge in telehealth adoption, federally qualified health centers often experienced the biggest benefits. Long restrained by restrictive Medicare rules, FQHCs...
Two Congressmen have re-introduced a bill that would prompt payers to cover any telehealth service that’s also offered in-person.
The bill, unveiled last week by US Reps. Dean Phillips (D-MN)...
A pair of Congressmen have re-introduced proposed legislation aimed at codifying telehealth coverage for federally qualified health centers and rural health clinics.
US Reps Glenn Thompson (R-PA) and...
Remote patient monitoring may be catching on with health systems across the country, but its path to Medicare reimbursement is still a work in progress.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid...
A North Carolina hospice is getting a $36,000 grant to support its two-year-old telehealth service.
The Hospice of Davidson County, based in Lexington, is getting funding from the Foundation for a...
Different populations adopt telehealth at different rates and for different reasons, so a strategy that seeks to address social determinants of health with a one-size-fits-all approach won’t...
Federal officials aren’t willing to endorse Medicare coverage for telehealth services in diabetes prevention programs.
As part of the proposed 2022 Physician Fee Schedule released this week, the...
The University of Alabama at Birmingham is expanding its telehealth platform to help diagnose and treat patients with vision problems.
UAB Eye Care, a clinical division of UAB’s School of...
