This brief serves as an overview of the Healthcare Connect Fund (HCF), established in 2013, which directs up to $400 million annually from the Universal Service Fund toward supporting high capacity broadband services, designed to bring the benefits of telehealth to areas of the country in acute need of those services.
CCHP’s SCSNI Report outlines the three-year telehealth demonstration project that connected forty-three safety net clinics with telehealth-delivered specialty care from five University of California Schools of Medicine. The report includes an overview of the need for such a project, the project design, and lessons learned from the outcomes.
This Executive Summary provides a description of the experiences of safety-net providers who applied for support under the Specialty Care Safety Net initiative to launch or expand their telehealth services. Additionally, it provides a series of recommendations for the safety-net providers who may be considering the addition of telehealth as part of their services.
In the months leading up to the Affordable Care Act (ACA)’s implementation, CCHP conducted a literature review on telehealth’s potential to help patients manage chronic diseases at home. The review specifically focuses on the ACA’s Triple Aim goals: better care and better health at lower costs.
This policy brief provides information on the July 8, 2013, proposed rule changes impacting telehealth services in Medicare. The changes are proposed by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
