A new bill before Congress aims to expand Medicare coverage for audio-only phone calls in telehealth programs.
The Permanency for Audio-Only Telehealth Act, introduced last week by US Reps. Jason...
A three-year demonstration project at critical access hospitals in some of the country’s most rural regions found strong support for the use of telehealth to improve access to care.
The apparent...
Kaiser Permanente is integrating telehealth and connected health strategies in behavioral healthcare through digital therapeutic referrals from providers.
Physicians and therapists can now refer...
Oregon’s state government has forged agreements with nine payers to extend emergency telehealth coverage – including payment parity – through at least June of 2021.
The extension...
Dozens of health systems across the country are embracing a program that uses telehealth and mHealth to provide care at home for patients who would otherwise be hospitalized.
Centers for Medicare...
A robust in-patient telehealth platform can save a health system millions of dollars, reduce workload stresses for care providers and, most importantly, improve care outcomes.
That’s the...
A new bill before Congress aims to permanently allow healthcare providers to use telehealth in medication-assisted treatment (MAT) programs for substance abuse and provide Medicare coverage for...
Telehealth advocates are lobbying Congress to get something done before the end of the year to ensure continued access to and coverage of telehealth services during the coronavirus pandemic.
In a...
The University of Washington health system is launching a subscription-based mHealth app offering on-demand virtual care via text message.
UW Medicine is partnering with Seattle-based digital health...
A new report from the University of Kansas Health System credits payment parity as a prime ingredient in telehealth expansion during the coronavirus pandemic, with many providers saying they need that...
Telehealth advocates have long argued that one of the biggest barriers to expansion are state and federal laws that prohibit practicing medicine across state lines. Now a Virginia-based counselor is...
A New York hospital is developing a telehealth platform that will enable care providers to manage orthopedic patients at home through the Apple Watch.
The Hospital for Special Surgery (HHS), an...
Google has launched an mHealth app for healthcare studies, allowing researchers and providers to collect data from participants using Android phones.
In unveiling the Google Health Studies app this...
The 2021 Physician Fee Schedule isn’t knocking anyone over with optimism for the future of telehealth adoption.
Reactions to last week’s final draft from the Centers for Medicare &...
A city in New York is reducing emergency department traffic and improving time to treatment by deploying a telehealth program through its fire department.
The Schenectady Fire Department launched the...
The federal government is expanding the telehealth platform for diagnostic tests and other devices that may be used to address the coronavirus pandemic.
The US Department of Health and Human Services...
A new project in Massachusetts aims to determine how telehealth can be used to address social and racial barriers to care during the coronavirus pandemic.
The Massachusetts Association of Health Plans...
A new survey finds that fear of COVID-19 contamination is keeping patients away from the doctor, and telehealth could ease those fears by turning in-person visits to virtual visits.
Roughly a third of...
Healthcare providers who use telehealth in their Diabetes Prevention Programs will continue to be reimbursed through Medicare during the coronavirus pandemic, according to guidelines issued this week...
Telehealth and remote patient monitoring will see significant improvements in Medicare coverage in 2021.
The long-awaited 2021 Physician Fee Schedule, unveiled on Tuesday by the Centers for Medicare...
