title: Covering and Reimbursing Telehealth Services.
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.
authors.forename: Kate
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Blackman
mesh_terms: D063026:Dual Medicare Medicaid Eligibility; D006264:Health Benefit Plans, Employee / Q000191:economics; D006801:Humans; D019458:Insurance Coverage / Q000191:economics*; D007348:Insurance, Health / Q000191:economics*; D008484:Medicaid / Q000191:economics; D006278:Medicare / Q000191:economics; D058991:Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act; D012051:Reimbursement Mechanisms / Q000191:economics*; D013219:State Government; D017216:Telemedicine / Q000191:economics* / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D014481:United States; D035862:Vulnerable Populations