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351. Rural Individuals' Telehealth Practices: An Overview
Date: Nov 2018

Compares rural and urban use of online health monitoring, online health research, and online health maintenance, which includes communication with healthcare providers. Provides breakdowns by level of education, age, race/ethnicity, income, and other factors. Briefly addresses access to technology, including internet availability.

...Telehealth Practices: An Overview --- Compares rural and urban use of online health monitoring, online health...

352. Health Panel Comment Letter – Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System and Rural Emergency Hospitals
Date: Sep 2022

Comments offered in response to a July 26, 2022, Federal Register proposed rule revising the Medicare Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS) and Medicare Ambulatory Surgical Center (ACS) payment system for calendar year 2023 and establishing Rural Emergency Hospital (REH) payment policy, quality measures, and enrollment policy. Discusses telehealth services for mental healthcare; REH quality measures, telehealth, and Conditions of Participation; and the use of Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) data on hospital and skilled nursing facilities changes in ownership.

...telehealth services for mental healthcare; REH quality measures, telehealth, and Conditions of Participation; and the use of Centers...

353. Impact of Telemedicine on Retention in Medications for Opioid Use Disorder (MOUD) Treatment with Buprenorphine in the Times of COVID-19 Pandemic: A Retrospective Chart Review
Date: Apr 2022

Study examining treatment retention for medication for opioid use disorder (MOUD) patients via telehealth during the COVID-19 pandemic, based on electronic health records of patients at a rural Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) in Pennsylvania. Discusses the impacts of telemedicine on retention rates, COVID-19-related challenges to treatment delivery systems, and policy measures to support telehealth and MOUD interventions.

...telehealth during the COVID-19 pandemic, based on electronic health records of patients at a rural...

354. September 2022 MedPAC Meeting Transcript
Date: Sep 2022

Transcript from the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission's (MedPAC) September 2022 meeting. Covers Medicare payments to safety-net clinicians, the development of a prototype post-acute care prospective payment system, nursing facility staffing requirements and data, the expansion of telehealth during the COVID-19 public health emergency (PHE) and payment for telehealth services after the PHE, inpatient psychiatric facility care, and Part D data on drug rebates and discounts. Includes rural references and considerations throughout.

...telehealth during the COVID-19 public health emergency (PHE) and payment for telehealth services after...

355. Telehealth Trends and Hypertension Management Among Rural and Medicaid Patients After COVID-19
Date: Jun 2024

This study examines trends in primary care utilization and hypertension management among adults who visited Dartmouth Health System in 2017-2018 and 2022. Compares changes in synchronous and asynchronous primary care utilization and effective control of elevated blood pressure by rurality and Medicaid enrollment before and during the COVID-19 pandemic through 2022.

...Telehealth Trends and Hypertension Management Among Rural and Medicaid Patients After COVID-19 --- This study...

356. MedPAC Comment on CMS's Proposed Rule on the Physician Fee Schedule and Other Revisions to Part B for CY 2022
Date: Sep 2021

Comment on a July 23, 2021, Federal Register proposed rule revising the physician fee schedule to improve payment systems for physicians and other Medicare Part B revisions. Includes a discussion of the expansion of telehealth service coverage after the COVID-19 public health emergency, as well as reimbursement rates to Rural Health Clinics and Federally Qualified Health Centers for telehealth mental health services.

...telehealth service coverage after the COVID-19 public health emergency, as well as reimbursement rates...

357. Emergency Triage, Treat, and Transport (ET3) Model
Reviewed: Sep 2023

Provides information on a CMS model that permits ambulance care teams to use alternate models of emergency healthcare, such as telehealth treatment and transport to alternative destinations, to improve quality and lower costs of care. Rural Medicare-enrolled suppliers or hospital-based ambulance providers without current medical dispatch and/or telehealth are eligible to participate.

...telehealth treatment and transport to alternative destinations, to improve quality and lower costs of care...

358. Trends in Outpatient Telemedicine Utilization Among Rural Medicare Beneficiaries, 2010 to 2019
Date: Oct 2021

Examines the growth of telehealth utilization among rural Medicare beneficiaries between 2010-2019. Compares telehealth use across beneficiaries with a severe mental illness diagnosis, other mental health diagnoses, and with no mental health diagnoses. Describes trends for mental health versus non-mental health visits and across clinician specialties. Presents data on rural Medicare beneficiary characteristics with and without a telemedicine visit in 2019, including age, race and ethnicity, sex, U.S. Census division, and more.

...telehealth utilization among rural Medicare beneficiaries between 2010-2019. Compares telehealth use across beneficiaries with...

359. The Influence of Telehealth for Better Health Across Communities
Date: Jul 2020

Describes the use of Extension for Community Healthcare Outcomes (ECHO), a videoconferencing peer learning application used by healthcare providers in predominantly rural areas of Missouri for the treatment of COVID-19–positive patients with chronic diseases such as diabetes, COPD, and hypertension. Discusses implications for public health and ways to optimize health system performance.

...Telehealth for Better Health Across Communities --- Describes the use of Extension for Community Healthcare Outcomes...

360. Comparing Two Telehealth Approaches for Treating Complex Psychiatric Disorders in Primary Care -- The SPIRIT Study
Date: 2022

Details a study on the use of telepsychiatry and telepsychology to treat complex psychiatric disorders in rural primary care settings. Discusses a trials done in 24 primary care clinics without behavioral health services. Compares models of care and draws conclusions from survey data.

...Telehealth Approaches for Treating Complex Psychiatric Disorders in Primary Care -- The SPIRIT Study --- Details a study...