mHealth Intelligence April 17, 2017
The GAO report finds that telehealth and remote patient monitoring services aren’t being used much by Medicare, Medicaid, VA or DOD beneficiaries, mainly due to reimbursement and coverage issues.
Healthcare providers aren’t embracing telehealth and remote patient monitoring because they aren’t being reimbursed for those services, according to a new report from the U.S. Government Accountability Office.
The GAO report, issued last week as part of the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015, found that Medicare, Medicaid, the Veterans Administration and the U.S. Department of Defense used telehealth to treat 12 percent or less of their beneficiaries in 2014 through 2016, with less than 1 percent of Medicare beneficiaries using any telehealth services.
Providers surveyed for the report...
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