GAO urges CMS to study telehealth care quality
Becker's Healthcare April 4, 2022
The Government Accountability Office on March 31 recommended CMS assess the effect increased telehealth use is having on the quality of care received by Medicaid beneficiaries.
To determine how much telehealth use expanded during the pandemic, the GAO studied CMS data from Arizona, California, Maine, Mississippi and Missouri. The agency found that 32.5 million telehealth services were delivered to about 4.9 million beneficiaries...