What are telehealth Resource Centers?
What are telehealth Resource Centers?
Telehealth Resource Centers (TRCs) provide assistance, education and information to organizations and individuals who are actively providing or interested in providing health care at a distance.
What is the name of the government funded policy telehealth Resource Center?
For more information about telehealth, visit HHS’s Telehealth website, HRSA’s Office for the Advancement of Telehealth and the Telehealth Resource Centers website. For more information about HRSA’s rural programs, visit https://www.hrsa.gov/rural-health/index.html.
What resources and organizations are available and support telehealth telemedicine?
Telehealth Programs
- Evidence-Based Tele-Behavioral Health Network Program (EB THNP)
- Licensure Portability Grant Program (LPGP)
- Telehealth Broadband Pilot (TBP) Program.
- Telehealth Centers of Excellence (COE)
- Telehealth Focused Rural Health Research Center Cooperative Agreement (TF RHRC) Program.
Are telehealth Resource Centers federally funded?
Funded by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), administered through grant # GA5RH37470, TRCs across the nation provide timely and accurate information on telehealth.
Which states are serviced by the Southeastern telehealth Resource Center?
Alabama.
Can telehealth be a phone call?
Expanded telemedicine coverage has temporarily allowed phone calls to be billed at the same rate as some E/M CPT codes, which are based on complexity of care.
Does telehealth have to be video?
Telehealth services may be provided, for example, through audio, text messaging, or video communication technology, including videoconferencing software. 1 Those restrictions do not limit the scope of the HIPAA Notification of Enforcement Discretion regarding COVID-19 and remote telehealth communications.
Can telehealth be audio-only?
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has proposed permanent Medicare coverage of audio-only mental health telehealth services. Currently, Medicare covers audio-only telehealth under temporary waivers that will expire when the Public Health Emergency (PHE) ends.
Can telehealth be done by phone?
With telehealth, you can access the care you need from home, using any phone, tablet or computer. To prevent the spread of COVID-19, we encourage all patients and community members to use this service. If you have a smartphone, tablet or computer, you can do a video visit. Learn more about video visits.