{"doi":"10.1089/tmr.2023.0015","title":"Demystifying Clinical Appropriateness in Virtual Care and What Is Ahead for Pay Parity: Proceedings of the 3rd Annual Mass General Brigham Virtual Care Symposium","abstract":"Telehealth helps ensure patients receive optimal and timely healthcare by connecting them to needed services through telecommunication, remote patient monitoring (RPM), store-and-forward technologies, and mobile health (mHealth).Telehealth promotes healthcare access, improves care, and offers patients a level of convenience difficult to obtain with in-person care. 1 A 2018 rapid review by Shigekawa et al. shows telehealth interventions for certain conditions are equally effective as in-person care. 2 As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, the majority of U.S. hospitals now use telehealth to connect with patients and practitioners who are not onsite. 3Despite recent policy changes, many barriers remain that hinder the widespread and successful adoption of telehealth. 4 The Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) has made efforts to streamline telehealth-related information for both providers and patients by providing a resource website, https://telehealth.hhs.gov/.Prior to the pandemic and the public health emergency declared on January 27, 2020, many barriers existed to telehealth including availability of telehealth services and limitations for reimbursement of those services.In 2019, Medicaid in all states began covering real-time video, but none allowed for telephone-only communication to be reimbursed.There were also limits in 2019 concerning the originating site for the telehealth encounter with less than half of the states reimbursing encounters where home was the originating site. 5May 6, 2022","journal":"Telemedicine Reports","year":2023,"id":388172,"datarank":0.0,"base_score":0.0,"endowment":0.0,"self_citation_contribution":0.0,"citation_network_contribution":0.0,"self_endowment_contribution":0.0,"citer_contribution":0.0,"corpus_percentile":null,"corpus_rank":null,"citation_count":1,"citer_count":0,"citers_with_citation_signal":0,"citers_with_endowment":0,"datacite_reuse_total":0,"is_dataset":false,"is_dataset_confidence":0.9532,"is_data_producer":false,"deposit_databanks":null,"is_oa":true,"file_count":0,"downloads":0,"has_version_chain":false,"published_date":"2023-01-01","fair_score":null,"fair_percentile":null,"algorithm_id":"datarank_citation_only_1hop_v6","ranking_scope":"data_only","authors":[{"id":249914,"name":"Lee H. Schwamm","orcid":"0000-0003-0592-9145","position":0,"is_corresponding":true}],"reference_count":5,"raw_metadata":null,"created_at":"2026-07-19T01:18:13.977537Z","pmid":"37139356","pmcid":null,"fwci":null,"citation_percentile":null,"influential_citations":0,"oa_status":null,"license":null,"views":0,"total_file_size_bytes":0,"version_count":0,"fair_f":null,"fair_a":null,"fair_i":null,"fair_r":null,"fair_zscore":null,"fair_rationale":null,"fair_model":null,"fair_agent_version":null,"fair_fulltext_source":null,"fair_has_llm":null,"fair_computed_at":null,"clinical_trials":[],"software_tools":[],"db_accessions":[],"linked_datasets":[],"topics":[]}