Bridge Counseling Associates a nonprofit agency and certified community behavioral health clinic is based in Las Vegas – in Clark County, Nevada. Since there was a need to provide services in rural communities where professional behavioral health services are virtually unavailable, Bridge provided services through telehealth.
Fitch reveals, telehealth effectively providing revenue stop-gap for U.S. hospitals
The use of telehealth in U.S. healthcare has been accelerated due to the COVID-19 pandemic, according to Fitch Ratings. Telehealth technology is providing revenue continuity whose ripple effects are felt in the supply chain as well, since doctors continue to prescribe medications.
Trump aims at a broader role for telehealth services in Medicare
The Trump administration has plans to give telehealth a broader role under Medicare through an executive order and it serves as an indication to the Congress to make doctor visits via personal technology a permanent feature of the program.
Consortium utilizes FCC COVID-19 funds to ensure telehealth access to underserved
The MA FQHC Telehealth Consortium was created for Federally Qualified Health Centers to collectively master telehealth so that their patients can access quality care despite the pandemic.
Prior to this, FQHCs usually struggled to make telehealth functional due to the expense, lack of reimbursement and access related issues.
Senate Committee on HELP weighs the future of telehealth
Since the outbreak of COVID-19 pandemic, federal policymakers enacted 31 changes to facilitate greater access to telehealth. The members of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions questioned, how many of these changes should be made permanent and ensure that the most vulnerable won’t be left behind.