Calif. Guidelines Advance Telehealth For Medicaid Patients

By Harsh Parikh and Jill Gordon (September 17, 2019, 3:07 PM EDT) -- Digital health's overdue promise of increasing patient access to care may finally be gaining steam with government payors. The Department of Health Care Services, the agency that administers Medi-Cal benefits for over 13.5 million California residents, finalized guidelines that significantly expand telehealth reimbursement in the Golden State. Touted by the nonprofit Center for Connected Health Policy as "a remarkable step forward," the new policy encourages Medi-Cal providers to use telehealth as a modality to serve the state's Medicaid beneficiaries....

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