Private payer telehealth reimbursement in the United States.

摘要: Abstract Background: Significant information is available about government-reimbursed telehealth services such as Medicare and Medicaid across the United States. Although currently 20 states mandate reimbursement for some private insurers have voluntarily covered those in other states, relatively little known provider experiences with from insurance payers. Materials Methods: To investigate this, American Telemedicine Association's (ATA's) Telemental Health Special Interest Group (SIG), Policy Group, Business Finance SIG, help of ATA staff, conducted a national payer online survey 2012 using Survey Monkey™ (Palo Alto, CA) (www.surveymonkey.com/). Results: responses were received respondents 46 50 states. The found that are being reimbursed by payers but progress has been slow compared w...