Law and Policy in Telemedicine
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Reimbursement Publications
- AMD Primer: Reimbursement
Author/editor: n/a
Date: April 2003
Chapter 9 of a primer published by AMD Telemedicine provides a good overview of telemedicine reimbursement.
- Home Care And Telemedicine. Did You Say Opportunity?
Author/editor: Karen Rau
Date: September 11, 2000
From HealthCare Vision's professional resources, the effects of the Balanced Budget Act (BBA) of 1997 on home care .
- Reimbursing physicians for telehealth practice: Issues and policy options.
Author/editor: Pong, R.W. and J. C. Hogenbirk
Date: 2000
From Health Law Review 9(1): 3-12. The article is posted online with permission from the Health Law Review. Adobe PDF
- Teleconsultation reimbursement changes
Author/editor: James V. Schuster, Esq.
Date: November, 1996
From the Physician's News Digest. Thus far, the federal Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA) has taken a conservative approach to Medicare reimbursement for telemedicine. Yet, the agency's approach has recently received harsh criticism from members of Congress and the private sector, which may suggest that the time for covering physician telemedicine consultations (teleconsultations) might just be the here and now.
- Telemedicine Reimbursement Report
Author/editor: n/a
Date: October 2003
From HRSA's Office for the Advancement of Telehealth (in conjunction with the Center for Telemedicine Law), a report on the status of reimbursement for telemedicine.
- Telemedicine: Follow the Money
Author/editor: Dena Puskin
Date: September 30, 2001
This article traces the development of current Medicare telemedicine payment
policies, beginning with the BBA of 1997 and including current Medicare
payment legislation. Issues related to telemedicine payment by both Medicare
and other third party payers are presented; implications for the future and the role of the nursing community are discussed. From the Online Journal of Issues in Nursing.
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