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Oct 24, 2024 | 
rand.org | Ateev Mehrotra |Lori Uscher-Pines
Topics Publisher: JAMA NetworkAvailability: Non-RAND Year: 2024 Pages: 2 Document Number: EP-70705 This publication is part of the RAND external publication series. Many RAND studies are published in peer-reviewed scholarly journals, as chapters in commercial books, or as documents published by other organizations. RAND is a nonprofit institution that helps improve policy and decisionmaking through research and analysis.
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Oct 18, 2024 | 
rand.org | Floyd James |Kristin N. Ray |Jill R. Demirci |Ateev Mehrotra
Topics Publisher: American Journal of Obstetrics & GynecologyAvailability: Non-RAND Year: 2024 Pages: 5 Document Number: EP-70684 This publication is part of the RAND external publication series. Many RAND studies are published in peer-reviewed scholarly journals, as chapters in commercial books, or as documents published by other organizations. RAND is a nonprofit institution that helps improve policy and decisionmaking through research and analysis.
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Jul 31, 2024 | 
jamanetwork.com | Andrew Wilcock |Robert W. Yeh |Lee H. Schwamm |Ateev Mehrotra
Key PointsQuestion
What underlies the sustained reduction in acute myocardial infarction (AMI) hospital encounters that began during the COVID-19 pandemic?
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Jun 14, 2024 | 
rand.org | Ateev Mehrotra |Jill R. Demirci |Kristin N. Ray |Lori Uscher-Pines
BackgroundWe conducted a national, cross-sectional survey among new parents to explore use and acceptability of telelactation. MethodsRecruitment occurred between October 2021 and January 2022 on Ovia's parenting mobile phone application. Poststratification survey weights were used, and logistic and linear regression models estimated associations between demographics and telelactation use. Results: Among 1,617 respondents, 33.8% had at least one telelactation visit.
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May 28, 2024 | 
jamanetwork.com | Kristin N. Ray |Samuel R. Wittman |Ateev Mehrotra
Moving eConsults Into Mainstream Pediatric Care In January 2023, for the first time, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) formally allowed Medicaid plans to make fee-for-service payments for electronic consultations (eConsults).1 eConsults are an asynchronous (or store-and-forward) clinician-to-clinician model of telehealth in which a requesting physician sends patient-specific text, photos, and/or audio files to a consulting physician, who then provides recommendations back...
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Apr 5, 2024 | 
jamanetwork.com | Ateev Mehrotra |Lori Uscher-Pines
Introduction
Debate continues regarding whether in-person visits should be required for patients receiving telemedicine. In 2020, Congress permanently expanded Medicare telemental health coverage but required an in-person visit within 6 months before a first telemental health visit.
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Jan 26, 2024 | 
jamanetwork.com | Ruth A. Hailu |Lori Uscher-Pines |Ateev Mehrotra
Introduction
The COVID-19 pandemic–related shift to telemedicine has been particularly prominent and sustained in mental health care. In 2021, more than one-third of mental health visits were conducted via telemedicine.1 While most mental health specialists have in-person and telemedicine visits, some have transitioned to fully virtual practice, perhaps for greater work-life flexibility (including avoiding commuting) and eliminating expenses of maintaining a physical clinic.
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Sep 5, 2023 | 
rand.org | Lori Uscher-Pines |Haiden Huskamp |Ateev Mehrotra
Summertime may be a time to relax but not this summer. Not if you're among the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) staff having to wade through roughly 38,000 public comments on a set of proposed rules on prescribing controlled substances through telemedicine. The DEA issued the proposed rules in March 2023, in an effort to clarify permanent policy on telemedicine as the public health emergency was coming to a close.
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Sep 1, 2023 | 
healthaffairs.org | Lori Uscher-Pines |Haiden Huskamp |Ateev Mehrotra
Summertime may be a time to relax but not this summer. Not if you’re among the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) staff having to wade through roughly 38,000 public comments on a set of proposed rules on prescribing controlled substances through telemedicine. The DEA issued the proposed rules in March 2023, in an effort to clarify permanent policy on telemedicine as the public health emergency was coming to a close.
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Jul 21, 2023 | 
jamanetwork.com | Carmel Shachar |Barak D. Richman |Ateev Mehrotra
For most physicians, a daily part of clinical practice is returning phone calls to their patients. Such calls are essential to the timely answering of patient questions, following up on test results, and—most of all—preserving ongoing care relationships. Unfortunately, physicians have increasingly been told by lawyers and compliance officers that calling patients located in another state is a legal gray area and introduces a risk of sanctions. States have accelerated this concern.
