by Dr. Maheu | May 16, 2022
The past two years have seen an exponential increase in telehealth policies regarding telehealth visits and coverage. A recent report published by the Kaiser Family Foundation highlighted the importance of telehealth providers in the behavioral health sector. From...
by Dr. Maheu | May 8, 2022
Preference for Over-the-Phone Therapy Visits A recently published RAND Corporation report confirms telehealth can improve healthcare access and high utilization of over-the-phone-therapy visits, also known as audio-only telehealth visits. Suggestions regarding...
by Dr. Maheu | Apr 24, 2022
According to a recent telehealth survey conducted by the American Medical Association (AMA), telehealth services are delivered in various ways, such as live, interactive video visits, telehealth phone calls, and remote patient monitoring technologies. The most rising...
by Dr. Maheu | Apr 18, 2022
The addiction rehabilitation industry has grown substantially in response to the opioid crisis, responsible for over 100,000 deaths in 2021. Among US veterans diagnosed with opioid use disorder (OUD), estimates were 69,132 in 2017. Since the COVID pandemic, telehealth...
by Dr. Maheu | Oct 13, 2021
COVID-19 has resulted in a wave of telehealth policy reforms at the federal and state levels across the country. One regulatory reform, in particular, has gotten a lot of attention and support from industry stakeholders and lawmakers alike: expanding audio-only...
by Dr. Maheu | Aug 6, 2021
When the CARES Act came into practice in March of last year, it brought changes to telehealth law, including the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) approach to telehealth reimbursement. This represented an updating of an approach that had largely been in...
