Telehealth & Remote Patient Monitoring Use in Medicare & Selected Federal Programs

On April 15, 2017, the federal Government Accountability Office (GAO) released this health care report regarding telehealth and remote patient monitoring use in Medicare and selected federal programs. The report was issued to meet a provision of the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015. For the report, the GAO reviewed factors that health care associations identify as affecting the use of telehealth and remote patient monitoring in Medicare; and emerging payment and delivery models that could affect the potential use of telehealth and remote patient monitoring in Medicare . . .