Are state Medicaid policies helping or hurting telehealth? 7 stats

Becker's Healthcare July 11, 2018
Julie Spitzer

Laws governing reimbursement often stand in the way of telehealth adoption — either hospitals don’t want to offer it over confusion about getting paid or patients don’t want to use it over confusion as to who pays.

However, most state Medicaid programs — 49 states and the District of Columbia — reimburse live video telehealth, according to data from the Public Health Institute Center for Connected Health Policy.

Here are six other statistics gathered by the center:

1. Most states (49) and the District of Columbia have laws that define telehealth, telemedicine or both.

2. Medicaid programs in 20 states reimburse for remote patient monitoring while one...

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