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541. MedPAC Comment on CMS's Proposed Rule on the Physician Fee Schedule and Other Revisions to Part B for CY 2022 - Resources
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...

542. Report to Congress on Medicaid and CHIP, March 2018 - Resources
Date: Mar 2018

Reports on three aspects of Medicaid: managed care, telehealth, and Disproportionate Share Hospital (DSH) payments. Chapter 2 discusses how the use of telehealth services can help patients access healthcare services in rural and frontier areas. Chapter 3 includes the third annual report on DSH payments, which provide support to safety-net hospitals to help offset uncompensated care costs for Medicaid and uninsured patients. Table 3-2 identifies DSH spending for urban and rural hospitals and for Critical Access Hospitals.

...telehealth, and Disproportionate Share Hospital (DSH) payments. Chapter 2 discusses how the use of telehealth...

543. Emerging Strategies to Ensure Access to Health Care Services: Virtual Care Strategies - Resources
Date: Nov 2017

Discusses opportunities to use telehealth to improve healthcare access and delivery to vulnerable rural and urban communities. Includes recommendations from the American Hospital Association Task Force on Ensuring Access in Vulnerable Communities and details the benefits of telehealth services and potential policy solutions such as reimbursement, interaction of state and federal laws, broadband access, and federal research.

...telehealth to improve healthcare access and delivery to vulnerable rural and urban communities. Includes recommendations...

544. The Massachusetts Department of Public Health TeleSANE Center - Models & Innovations
Reviewed: Jun 12, 2024

The MDPH TeleSANE Center uses secure telehealth software to connect sexual assault nurse examiners to clinicians and patients in hospitals across Massachusetts.

...telehealth software to connect sexual assault nurse examiners to clinicians and patients in hospitals across...

545. Medicare Beneficiaries' Use of Audio-Only Health Care Services - Resources
Date: Dec 2022

Describes the use of audio-only telehealth services among Medicare beneficiaries before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. Presents data on the use of telehealth by age, number of chronic conditions, service type and modality, race and ethnicity, urbanicity, and outpatient facility provider type.

...telehealth services among Medicare beneficiaries before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. Presents data on the use of telehealth...

546. Trends in Outpatient Telemedicine Utilization Among Rural Medicare Beneficiaries, 2010 to 2019 - Resources
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...

547. Access and Coverage for Mental Health Care: Findings from the 2022 KFF Women's Health Survey - Resources
Date: Dec 2022

Presents data from the national 2022 KFF Women's Health Survey of 5,145 women and 1,225 men ages 18-64 where respondents were asked about their experiences in obtaining mental health services, including the use of telehealth, over the past two years. Data is focused on the mental health service needs of women by age, race/ethnicity, income, insurance, and on rural and urban telehealth usage.

...telehealth, over the past two years. Data is focused on the mental health service needs...

548. Sociodemographic Inequities in Telemedicine Use Among US Patients Initiating Treatment in Community Cancer Centers During the Ongoing COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-2022 - Resources
Date: Sep 2023

Evaluates demographic factors associated with use of telehealth within 90 days after starting cancer treatment during the COVID-19 pandemic, utilizing March 2020-March 2023 data of 36,993 cancer patients. Includes data on telehealth inequities by race and ethnicity, insurance, socioeconomic status, rurality, and more.

...telehealth within 90 days after starting cancer treatment during the COVID-19 pandemic, utilizing March...

549. Comparing Two Telehealth Approaches for Treating Complex Psychiatric Disorders in Primary Care -- The SPIRIT Study - Resources
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...

550. The Influence of Telehealth for Better Health Across Communities - Resources
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...