Telemedicine 101

Reimbursement Links

• 2001 Report to Congress on Telemedicine: Payment Issues
  The payment portion of the 2001 report from the Office for the Advancement of Telehealth.
• AMD Primer: Reimbursement
  Author/editor: n/a
  Date: April 2003
  Chapter 9 of a primer published by AMD Telemedicine provides a good overview of telemedicine reimbursement.
• Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
  The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is the federal agency that administers Medicare, Medicaid, and the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP).
• Growing pains
  Author/editor: Ellen Carr, RN
  Date: October 26, 2001
  From NurseWeek, faced with reimbursement and licensure restrictions, telemedicine struggles to reach a wider audience.
• Reimbursing physicians for telehealth practice: Issues and policy options.
  Author/editor: Pong, R.W. and J. C. Hogenbirk
  Date: 2000
  From Health Law Review 9(1): 3-12. The article is posted online with permission from the Health Law Review. Adobe PDF
• Rural Health Services
  From HRSA's Medicaid Primer, a review of the opportunities to use Medicaid as a source of financing for rural health programs.
• States Where Medicaid Reimbursement of Services Utilizing Telemedicine is Available
  Maintained by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the document includes state contact information.
• Synopsis of Reimbursement
  From the Telemedicine Resource Center at the University of Michigan, a synopsis of reimbursement regulations for telemedicine.
• Telemedicine for the Medicare Population: Pediatric, Obstetric, and Clinician-Indirect Home Interventions: Full Report
  Author/editor: not listed
  Date: February, 2001
  Prepared by the Oregon Health Sciences University Evidence-based Practice Center, this report is a supplement to an earlier evidence report, Telemedicine for the Medicare Population, which was intended to help policymakers weigh the evidence relevant to coverage of telemedicine services under Medicare. The original report focused on telemedicine programs and clinical settings that had been used with or were likely to be applied to Medicare beneficiaries.
• Telemedicine: Follow the Money
  Author/editor: Dena Puskin
  Date: September 30, 2001
  This article traces the development of current Medicare telemedicine payment policies, beginning with the BBA of 1997 and including current Medicare payment legislation. Issues related to telemedicine payment by both Medicare and other third party payers are presented; implications for the future and the role of the nursing community are discussed. From the Online Journal of Issues in Nursing.

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