Patients in older age groups and those who are Black are more likely to use audio-only telehealth as compared with video-based care, according to a new study.
As telehealth flexibilities that were...
Telehealth policies vary from state to state but in the past few months there have been some common regulation changes across the country. Specifically, states modified their Medicaid reimbursement...
U.S. Representatives Diana DeGette (D-CO) and Fred Upton (R-MI) have introduced their finalized Cures 2.0 bill in the House which aims to expand access to telehealth for Medicare and Medicaid...
Colorado’s Medicaid program is funding a three-year telehealth project aimed at offering virtual visits with neurologists to patients with Huntington’s disease, Parkinson’s disease...
A federal review has found that no state Medicaid programs are analyzing how telehealth affects the quality of behavioral health services even though many are offering virtual care coverage during the...
Federal authorities are awarding $15 million in rescue plan funding to 20 states to help expand mobile health intervention services for Medicaid patients in crisis.
The planning grants, administered...
Texas is expanding Medicaid coverage for telehealth and remote patient monitoring services and expanding broadband connectivity to rural parts of the state to, among other things, help providers expand...
Texas is set to approve legislation that would give the state’s Medicaid program and other public health plans more leeway to cover telehealth and allow audio-only telehealth services in some...
Two more telehealth bills have resurfaced on Capitol Hill, joining a growing package of legislation aimed at improving connected health coverage and access after the coronavirus pandemic.
US Reps....
Florida lawmakers are considering legislation that allow Medicaid coverage for asynchronous (store-and-forward) telehealth and remote patient monitoring services.
S.852, filed last month by State...
California’s Department of Health Care Services is planning an aggressive post-COVID-19 telehealth policy for the state’s Medicaid program.
In a 14-page report issued this week, the DHCS...
California lawmakers will debate a bill next month that aims to make expanded telehealth coverage permanent for the state’s Medicare program.
AB 32, introduced earlier this month by State...
A CMS program that provides long-term care for seniors in need of support services used telehealth to keep those connections going during the coronavirus pandemic.
The success was charted in a recent...
With most state governments enacting emergency measures to improve Medicaid coverage for telehealth services during the coronavirus pandemic, a national law firm has drafted a list of actions those...
A new bill before Congress aims to improve telehealth coverage for children through state Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) services.
The Telehealth Improvement for...
Washington DC lawmakers are set to enact a new law that would greatly expand telehealth coverage for postpartum care.
The Postpartum Coverage Expansion Act Amendment of 2020, which was passed...
Ohio’s Medicaid program is petitioning the state to make permanent telehealth coverage that had been expanded to address the coronavirus pandemic.
The state’s Department of Medicaid has...
Michigan lawmakers are moving forward with a series of bills aimed at expanding telehealth in the state, including mandating Medicaid coverage for services delivered to the home and school and more...
Health Net is disbursing millions of dollars to California healthcare providers to expand telehealth programs for Medicaid recipients during the Coronavirus pandemic.
The 138 grants, totaling $13.4...
Tennessee’s Medicaid program will be using an mHealth sensor to measure medication adherence among members undergoing Hepatitis C treatment.
TennCare is partnering with Proteus Digital Health on...
