Telehealth

To help expand access to care during the COVID-19 pandemic, several insurance companies have loosened restrictions on telehealth claims for both COVID-19 and non-COVID-19 related care.

Humana recently expanded access to more than 150 telehealth and other virtual services such as virtual check-ins, e-visits and telephone evaluations in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Even before the CDC recommended that healthcare entities consider alternatives to face-to-face appointments and made it easier to bill for telehealth visits, our hospital planned to explore the technology in 2020.

Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts announced on April 13 that it has processed 180,000 telehealth claims since expanding coverage for virtual care during the COVID-19 pandemic.

As an emergency medicine physician, Hazar Khidir, MD, was used to only seeing patients once. However, with the uncertainties of COVID-19, Dr. Khidir has begun calling her former patients to check how they are doing, she wrote in an op-ed…

The Michigan Health Endowment Fund is gifting $2.95 million to various healthcare providers in the state to boost telehealth services, according to NBC 25 News.

As medical students take their classes online, Nashville, Tenn.-based Vanderbilt University School of Medicine is offering a pandemic course, according to Knox News.

The FCC will open its application portal today to hospitals interested in applying to its $200 million COVID-19 telehealth program. 

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker said the state has launched  a remote patient-monitoring program and mental health support line with OSF HealthCare and Southern Illinois University School of Medicine.

Healthcare organizations around the world are facing enormous pressures during the COVID-19 pandemic.