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11. Bridging the Digital Divide: Advancing Telehealth Equity
Date: Nov 2022

Describes the rise in telehealth use in Massachusetts since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic and disparities in use across populations. Summarizes the access, quality, and experience factors associated with telehealth from the perspective of patients, providers, and community leaders. Identifies barriers and factors that promoted telehealth use. Offers recommendations for health plans to advance telehealth equity by addressing the root causes of the digital divide, promoting digital inclusion, removing structural and financial barriers to telehealth access, and supporting higher quality and more inclusive care delivery.

...Telehealth Equity --- Describes the rise in telehealth use in Massachusetts since the onset of the COVID...

12. National Institutes of Health Pathways to Prevention Workshop: Improving Rural Health Through Telehealth-Guided Provider-to-Provider Communication
Date: Dec 2022

Examines the effectiveness of rural provider-to-provider collaboration through the use of telehealth based on a systematic review of rural provider-to-provider telehealth (RPPT), and the results of a workshop of rural health experts. Discusses uptake of different types of telehealth, benefits of provider-to-provider telehealth for rural patients, barriers and facilitators to implementation and sustainability, and limitations of studies examining rural telehealth.

...telehealth based on a systematic review of rural provider-to-provider telehealth (RPPT), and the results...

13. Use of Telehealth During the COVID-19 Era
Date: Jan 2023

Presents a review of more than 300 studies on the use of telehealth published between March 11, 2020, and May 2, 2022. Explores the characteristics of the patients, providers, and health systems using telehealth during the COVID-19 era. Examines the benefits and harms of telehealth, what is considered a successful telehealth intervention, and strategies used to implement telehealth interventions.

...telehealth, what is considered a successful telehealth intervention, and strategies used to implement telehealth interventions...

14. Outpatient Telehealth Use Soared Early in the COVID-19 Pandemic but Has since Receded
Date: Feb 2022

Brief examining outpatient telehealth visits from March 2019 to August 2021 based on a data set that includes over 126 million patients from 889 hospitals and 19,320 clinics nationwide. Covers changes in telehealth use during the pandemic, telehealth use by age group and gender, rural and urban rates of telehealth use, and telehealth use for management of chronic conditions. Discusses impacts on healthcare access, cost, quality, and outcomes, as well as policy implications.

...telehealth use by age group and gender, rural and urban rates of telehealth use, and telehealth...

15. Monthly Telehealth Regional Tracker
Reviewed: Jun 2023

Summarizes telehealth utilization changes nationally and across four U.S. census regions on a monthly and yearly basis. Provides an overview of the top five telehealth diagnostic categories, mental health telehealth diagnoses, and telehealth specialties; age distribution; and telehealth's percentage of medical claim lines. Updated monthly.

...telehealth diagnostic categories, mental health telehealth diagnoses, and telehealth specialties; age distribution; and telehealth's percentage...

16. The Use of Telehealth for Disability Evaluation in Medicine and Allied Health: Proceedings of a Workshop
Date: 2022

Summarizes presentations and discussions held during a March 2022 workshop regarding the use of telehealth for patient evaluation. Provides an overview of telehealth policy broadly and within the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. Explores the use of telehealth in a range of clinical specialties; telehealth access and digital inclusion and equity; the experiences of U.S. healthcare systems in deploying telehealth; and licensure, privacy, and security issues.

...telehealth for patient evaluation. Provides an overview of telehealth policy broadly and within the context...

17. State Medicaid Telehealth Policies Before and During the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency: 2022 Update
Date: Nov 2022

Examines state Medicaid telehealth coverage, policies, and utilization before and after the COVID-19 public health emergency (PHE). Describes the types of Medicaid services that were allowed to be delivered by telehealth and the types of telehealth modality covered before the PHE, in May 2020, and in January 2022. Outlines the status of state Medicaid telehealth flexibilities based on state executive orders and Medicaid agency guidance. Builds on a July 2021 analysis of state Medicaid telehealth coverage, policies, and utilization before and after the COVID-19 PHE.

...telehealth and the types of telehealth modality covered before the PHE, in May 2020, and in January...

18. Study of Telehealth Expansion and Payment Parity: Preliminary Report to the Minnesota Legislature 2023
Date: May 2023

Provides an overview of telehealth usage in Minnesota, with a focus on the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on telehealth; issues of access, quality, satisfaction, and equity; payment parity; audio-only telehealth; and more. Includes 2021 Minnesota Health Access (MNHA) Survey data about telehealth satisfaction for various populations, including rural, as well as telehealth implications for rural areas.

...telehealth; issues of access, quality, satisfaction, and equity; payment parity; audio-only telehealth; and more...

19. Billing for Telehealth Encounters: An Introductory Guide on Fee-for-Service
Date: Jul 2023

Presents an overview of how to bill fee-for-service Medicare and Medicaid for telehealth encounters. Includes information on originating and distant sites, virtual healthcare, and coding telehealth services. Lists types of practice sites, including Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs) and Rural Health Clinics (RHCs), and implications for billing telehealth services. Provides contact information for Regional Telehealth Research Centers (RTRC).

...telehealth services. Provides contact information for Regional Telehealth Research Centers (RTRC). --- View more Billing for Telehealth...

20. Medicaid & State Telehealth Policy – Medicaid Telehealth Policy & Substance Use Disorder
Date: Jun 2022

Webinar covering state and federal Medicaid telehealth policy for the treatment of substance use disorder (SUD). Offers an overview of telehealth, its expansion during the COVID-19 pandemic, and its application in SUD treatment with examples from Arkansas and Philadelphia. Also covers research on disparities in drug-related mortality and access to treatment during the pandemic. Captions are available by clicking "CC" at the bottom of the video pane.

...Telehealth Policy – Medicaid Telehealth Policy & Substance Use Disorder --- Webinar covering state and federal Medicaid telehealth...