National telehealth utilization declined by 6.8% from September to October 2021 after two months of growth, according to FAIR Health’s Monthly Telehealth Regional Tracker. In August and September 2021, telehealth usage rose by 2% each month, based on data including populations that are privately insured, including Medicare Advantage, and excluding Medicare fee-for-service and Medicaid. Despite […]

National telehealth utilization declined by 6.8% from September to October 2021 after two months of growth, according to FAIR Health’s Monthly Telehealth Regional Tracker. In August and September 2021, telehealth usage rose by 2% each month, based on data including populations that are privately insured, including Medicare Advantage, and excluding Medicare fee-for-service and Medicaid. Despite […]

Telehealth stakeholders are gearing up for an extended push to cement telehealth’s role in American health care in the year ahead. Last year brought dramatic expansions of telehealth’s breadth and depth, and with pending bipartisan legislation including the Telehealth Extension Act — and a defined end to the COVID-19 public health emergency still uncertain — […]

Telehealth stakeholders are gearing up for an extended push to cement telehealth’s role in American health care in the year ahead. Last year brought dramatic expansions of telehealth’s breadth and depth, and with pending bipartisan legislation including the Telehealth Extension Act — and a defined end to the COVID-19 public health emergency still uncertain — […]

Telehealth stakeholders are “1,000% in agreement” that removing geographical and originating site restrictions top off their legislative goals for 2022, according to Kyle Zebley, American Telemedicine Association’s public policy vice president who moderated the lobby group’s policy meeting Thursday (Dec. 16). These restrictions have been waived under the COVID-19 pandemic through Jan. 16, and making […]

Allowing doctors and other providers to easily practice telemedicine across state lines would combat the nationwide health-care staffing shortage ignited by the Covid-19 pandemic. “Workforce is an issue,” Deanna Larson, CEO at telemedicine provider Avel eCare, said at a Thursday hearing of a Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation panel. Larson serves on the board of […]

The Justice Department is targeting over $1.4 billion in alleged health-care fraud in a nationwide enforcement spree involving 138 defendants and 42 doctors and nurses. The Friday announcement includes $1.1 billion in alleged schemes involving telemedicine companies arranging for fraudulent orders for expensive durable medical equipment and genetic testing, according to Assistant Attorney General Kenneth […]

The American Medical Association is pushing for Congress to continue telehealth flexibilities past the COVID-19 public health emergency and postpone physician payment cuts set to go into effect in January by adding provisions to Democrats’ emerging reconciliation package. The House Ways & Means and Energy & Commerce committees both released their proposed contributions to the […]

Federal watchdogs are investigating whether the expansion of telehealth services during the pandemic opened the door to fraud and abuse, a move that policy experts say could help determine the future of the practice. U.S. health-care providers embraced telemedicine over the past year as a way of providing continuing care to patients who would otherwise […]

WASHINGTON, August 26 WASHINGTON, August 26, 2021—The Federal Communications Commission today approved an initial set of 62 applications for funding commitments totaling $41.98 million for Round 2 of its COVID-19 Telehealth Program. Health care providers in each state, territory, and the District of Columbia, including those previously unfunded in Round 1, will use this funding […]