Telehealth visit volume dropped from 76.6 million visits in the second quarter of 2020 to 41.5 million visits in the fourth quarter of 2022, representing a 45.8 percent decline, according to a new...
Wholesale retailer Costco and healthcare marketplace platform Sesame have partnered to offer Costco members several outpatient healthcare services, including virtual visits, at a...
The percentage of asynchronous telehealth claim lines for mental health conditions increased nationwide, with a particularly sharp rise in the Midwest, where it doubled between May and June, according...
The demand for behavioral healthcare has skyrocketed, but a new study shows that nearly one-third of behavioral healthcare patients do not get their preferred choice between telehealth and in-person...
Telemental healthcare utilization, which skyrocketed during the COVID-19 pandemic, remains "persistent and elevated," according to new research.
The research letter published in JAMA Health Forum...
Though the COVID-19 public health emergency (PHE) has been officially declared over, people worldwide are still dealing with the life-changing repercussions of the pandemic. This includes grappling with an ongoing mental health...
Today marks the end of the COVID-19 public health emergency (PHE), bringing changes to telehealth flexibilities enacted amid the pandemic.
On May 11, the Department for Health and Human Services (HHS)...
After receiving thousands of comments asking for an extension of pandemic-era virtual prescribing flexibilities, the Drug Enforcement Administration has acquiesced.
The flexibilities allow healthcare...
Telehealth-delivered behavioral health services spiked 45-fold since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to new data from market research firm Trilliant Health.
To assess behavioral health...
Point32Health, the parent organization of Harvard Pilgrim Health Care and Tufts Health Plan, is partnering with Valera Health to expand access to telebehavioral health services in...
CVS Health is doubling down on investments in the virtual care arena, participating in two fundraising rounds to spur telemental healthcare and connected care efforts.
The retail healthcare giant led...
Telehealth visits spiked at community health centers during the COVID-19 pandemic, representing 21 percent of total visits in 2021 compared with less than 1 percent of visits in 2019, a recent report...
Empire BlueCross BlueShield has added four virtual behavioral health companies to its provider network.
Empire BlueCross BlueShield, a healthcare payer, covers more than 4 million members and 38,000...
CVS Health and Walmart will no longer fill prescriptions for controlled substances provided by telemental health companies Cerebral and Done. Health.
CVS Health confirmed the decision in an emailed...
The Wisconsin state government is making a $5 million investment in telehealth services.
Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers, together with the Wisconsin Department of Health Services, announced the investment,...
Aspiring to enhance the future of telemedicine, a study uses information from community mental health centers (CMHCs) to discover the various benefits and limitations that accompanied virtual care...
More than half of providers (55 percent) said that managing unrealistic patient expectations for their virtual visit is a top frustration of providing telehealth services, according to a new...
Sixty percent of Medicaid providers in California said that telehealth provided financial stability for their organization, a new report shows.
The report was released by Health Net, a payer...
A majority of healthcare consumers across all age groups are as or more comfortable with app-based virtual therapy than in-person services, according to a new report.
For the report, Evernorth,...
Telehealth utilization increased nationally by 11.4 percent between November and December 2021 and rose from 4.4 to 4.9 percent of all medical claim lines, according to FAIR Health’s Monthly...
