在美国提供门诊远程医疗服务:在 2019 冠状病毒病之前和期间。
Providing Outpatient Telehealth Services in the United States: Before and During Coronavirus Disease 2019.
机构信息
Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care, Department of Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA.
University of Pennsylvania Health System, Philadelphia, PA.
出版信息
Chest. 2021 Apr;159(4):1548-1558. doi: 10.1016/j.chest.2020.11.020. Epub 2020 Nov 25.
Before coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), telehealth evaluation and management (E/M) services were not widely used in the United States and often were restricted to rural areas or locations with poor access to care. Most Medicare beneficiaries could not receive telehealth services in their homes. In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Medicare, Medicaid, and commercial insurers relaxed restrictions on both coverage and reimbursement of telehealth services. These changes, together with the need for social distancing, transformed the delivery of outpatient E/M services through an increase in telehealth use. In some cases, the transition from in-person outpatient care to telehealth occurred overnight. Billing and claim submission for telehealth services is complicated; has changed over the course of the pandemic; and varies with each insurance carrier, making telehealth adoption burdensome. Despite these challenges, telehealth is beneficial for health-care providers and patients. Without additional legislation at the federal and state levels, it is likely that telehealth use will continue to decline after the COVID-19 public health emergency.
在 2019 年冠状病毒病(COVID-19)之前,远程医疗评估和管理(E/M)服务在美国并未得到广泛应用,通常仅限于农村地区或医疗服务获取困难的地区。大多数 Medicare 受益人无法在家中接受远程医疗服务。为应对 COVID-19 大流行,医疗保险、医疗补助和商业保险公司放宽了对远程医疗服务的覆盖范围和报销的限制。这些变化以及保持社交距离的需要,通过增加远程医疗的使用,改变了门诊 E/M 服务的提供方式。在某些情况下,从门诊当面护理到远程医疗的转变是一夜之间发生的。远程医疗服务的计费和理赔提交很复杂;在大流行期间不断变化;并且因每个保险公司而异,使得远程医疗的采用变得繁琐。尽管存在这些挑战,但远程医疗对医疗保健提供者和患者都有益。如果没有联邦和州一级的额外立法,在 COVID-19 公共卫生紧急情况结束后,远程医疗的使用可能会继续下降。
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