News Report | August 11, 2019
40 States & D.C. Have Expanded Telemedicine Coverage Or Reimbursement Since 2017
Forty states and the District of Columbia (D.C.) have passed laws that expanded telemedicine coverage or reimbursement since 2017. Those states that have not expanded coverage include Alabama, Colorado, Idaho, Michigan, Montana, New Mexico, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, and West Virginia.
These findings were presented in “2019 State of the States Report: Coverage and Reimbursement,” by the American Telemedicine Association (ATA). Researchers for the ATA reviewed consumer settings, different technologies, provider organization types, and unique policies regarding reimbursement and coverage of telehealth services in the 50 states and D.C. The goal was to determine trends in telehealth coverage . . .