Daily Bruin: Op-ed: Ashe Center should offer telehealth appointments to meet health care demands
Op-ed: Ashe Center should offer telehealth appointments to meet health care demands
As members of the Student Health Advisory Committee, we are writing in response to your op-ed on telehealth services at the Arthur Ashe Student Health and Wellness Center. As students, we understand ...
Daily Bruin: Letter to the Editor: Ashe Center offers substantial medical resources to students
Letter to the Editor: Ashe Center offers substantial medical resources to students
An invaluable lifeline During the COVID-19 public health emergency and beyond, telehealth has proved its worth as a lifeline for patients and physicians alike. A 2022 federal study reported that more than 28 million Medicare beneficiaries used telehealth during this period, particularly for primary care and behavioral health.
Lifesaving telehealth regulatory flexibilities are set to expire Sept. 30. Congress must act now to pass bipartisan legislation to expand telehealth.
Overall, telehealth use has nearly tripled since before COVID-19 hit. Find out which physician specialties are using telehealth the most—and least.
For patients in rural South Dakota, telehealth saves two-plus hours of travel on average. Companion Senate measure already has 63 co-sponsors.
Bipartisan legislation that would extend existing telehealth flexibilities for two years beyond their current end-of-2024 expiration date saw its first substantive step toward becoming law when the House Ways and Means Committee in May unanimously passed the Preserving Telehealth, Hospital and Ambulance Access Act (H.R. 8261).
What's the news: For the next two years, Medicare patients and physicians will be able to use telehealth services knowing that they will be covered without interruption. The recently passed government funding package—the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2026—renewed the telehealth coverage that so many older adults have relied on since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, an extension that ...
Executive summary Based on data from the American Medical Association’s Physician Practice Benchmark Surveys, this Policy Research Perspective (PRP) shows that the use of telehealth in physician practices increased dramatically during the COVID-19 pandemic and, despite a drop off since then, remains much more widely used than before. It also compares patient-facing 2024 telehealth use among ...
WASHINGTON — In light of the impending expiration of the Medicare telehealth waiver on January 30, the American Medical Association (AMA) released a pivotal issue brief (PDF) today urging Congress to enact permanent authorization of Medicare telehealth services and end the repeated cycle of temporary extensions that have undermined reliable access to virtual care. “Since the COVID-19 ...
The COVID-19 pandemic may have pushed the health care community to expand use of telehealth and other digital health technologies, but AMA research points to a positive and permanent outcome—to better care and increased value.
Throughout 2024, healthcare will experience a significant shift as remote patient monitoring (RPM) integrates into a comprehensive platform alongside telehealth. The merging of RPM with telehealth is ...