Covering and Reimbursing Telehealth Services

NCSL Legisbrief. 2016 Jan;24(4):1-2.

Abstract

Policymakers who are striving to achieve better health care, improved health outcomes and lower costs are considering new strategies and technologies. Telehealth is a tool that uses technology to provide health services remotely, and state leaders are looking to it now more than ever as a way to address workforce gaps and reach underserved patients. Among the challenges facing state lawmakers who are working to introduce or expand telehealth is how to handle covering patients and reimbursing providers.

MeSH terms

  • Dual MEDICAID MEDICARE Eligibility
  • Health Benefit Plans, Employee / economics
  • Humans
  • Insurance Coverage / economics*
  • Insurance, Health / economics*
  • Medicaid / economics
  • Medicare / economics
  • Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
  • Reimbursement Mechanisms / economics*
  • State Government
  • Telemedicine / economics*
  • Telemedicine / legislation & jurisprudence
  • United States
  • Vulnerable Populations