Website Search Results for: telehealth
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Date: Jul 2017
Discusses the extent to which telehealth is used by Medicare and Medicaid, the factors affecting the use of telehealth in Medicare, and how emerging payment and delivery models could affect future telehealth use. Includes rural-specific information throughout with particular attention paid to the role of rural healthcare facilities as originating sites.
...Telehealth: Use in Medicare and Medicaid --- Discusses the extent to which telehealth is used by Medicare...
Date: Dec 2022
Explores how rural chief financial officers (CFOs) and hospital administrators perceive the financial impacts of telehealth in their facilities. Analyzes 30 interview responses from CFOs and administrators between October 2021 and January 2022 about the perceived benefits and challenges of telehealth programs. Discusses opportunities to improve telehealth infrastructure to make the modality more cost effective for hospitals.
...telehealth programs. Discusses opportunities to improve telehealth infrastructure to make the modality more cost effective...
Date: Jun 2022
Examines the use of telehealth for mental health appointments in rural Louisiana. Analyzes 6 mental health outpatient clinics that completed 7,069 telehealth visits with 1,115 patients from April 2020 to March 2021. Discusses how demographic factors and severity of disease impact telehealth usage.
...Telehealth Service Use among Mental Health Patients: A Case of Rural Louisiana --- Examines the use of telehealth...
Date: Jun 2025
Examines the impact of telehealth on access to medication for opioid use disorder (MOUD) and substance and opioid use disorder (SUD/OUD) treatment. Utilizes data from the Rural Communities Opioid Response Program's (RCORP) consortia, the National Survey of Drug Use and Health (NSDUH), and the U.S. Census Bureau's American Community Survey (ACS) to analyze access to MOUD and rates of telehealth use for rural consortia. Discusses potential barriers and factors impacting telehealth implementation for SUD/OUD care.
...telehealth use for rural consortia. Discusses potential barriers and factors impacting telehealth implementation for SUD/OUD...
Date: Dec 2019
Explores impacts of telehealth on behavioral health patients in rural emergency departments (EDs) at 4 Midwestern Critical Access Hospitals (CAHs). Compares wait time and length of stay (LOS) for 153 patients from 2005-2013 before telehealth implementation and 287 patents from 2015-2017 after telehealth implementation. Provides data on patient demographics, wait time, LOS, behavioral health diagnosis, and total costs of ED visit.
...telehealth implementation and 287 patents from 2015-2017 after telehealth implementation. Provides data on patient...
Date: Oct 2021
Presents a recording of an October 7, 2021, hearing before the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation Subcommittee on Communications, Media, and Broadband. Examines the importance of access to telehealth services, telehealth utilization during the COVID-19 pandemic, the impact of the pandemic on telehealth regulations, and the role of broadband access in the public health response. Features testimony from the American Academy of Family Physicians, Project ECHO, Avel eCare, and the Federal Communications Commission.
...telehealth services, telehealth utilization during the COVID-19 pandemic, the impact of the pandemic on telehealth...
Reviewed: Mar 2025
Contains information on originating sites, distant site practitioners, telehealth services, billing and payment for professional services furnished via telehealth as well as for the originating site facility fee, telehealth home health, remote patient monitoring, and a list of helpful websites.
...Telehealth & Remote Patient Monitoring --- Contains information on originating sites, distant site practitioners, telehealth services, billing...
Date: May 2020
Discusses the use of telehealth during the COVID-19 pandemic and presents safety protocols to transition care from telehealth to in-person treatment. Looks at the ways telehealth is used as a substitute for regular visits, as well as for monitoring the virus.
...Telehealth and Patient Safety During the COVID-19 Response --- Discusses the use of telehealth during...
Date: Aug 2015
Describes how telehealth can improve access for children with special healthcare needs in California, particularly those living in rural areas. Provides an overview of California's telehealth policies, and describes how telehealth is being used in the state to meet the needs of this population.
...Telehealth for Children with Special Health Care Needs --- Describes how telehealth can improve access for children...
Date: Aug 2024
Examines factors contributing to telehealth use among commercially insured and Medicare Advantage patients in Minnesota. Factors evaluated include age, sex, various chronic health conditions, rurality, broadband access, and more.
...Telehealth Use after the Minnesota Telehealth Act: Analysis Using the Minnesota All Payer Claims Database...