Medicare White Papers

• CMS Medicare Telehealth Services Fact Sheet (July 2009) - Courtesy of the Department of Health and Human Services
• CMS Manual on Claims Processing for Telehealth Services (April 2009) – Includes the current list of covered CPT and HCPCS codes.
• Medicare Reimbursement for Telemedicine (December 2008) - A report detailing how Medicare reimburses for remote medical services.

Other Telemedicine White Papers

• The Challenge of Regulating Internet Prescribing (September 2009) This paper identifies some of the current issues involved with the issuing of prescriptions over the internet.
• Telehealth and Health Care Provider Shortages (March 2007) - This paper examines the health care provider shortage and makes policy recommendations for ways that telemedicine can help address shortages.
• Medical Licensure Portability (March 2007) - This paper examines challenges facing telemedicine providers resulting from licensure barriers. It makes recommendations for ways to address these challenges while maintaining important consumer safety safeguards.
• Private Payer Reimbursement for Telemedicine Services in the United States (July 2006) - This report captures a current picture of private payer reimbursement for telemedicine services in the United States and serves as a follow-up to a survey conducted by the American Telemedicine Association and AMD Telemedicine in 2003.  (This is a companion piece to AMD's Private Payer Reimbursement Information Directory.)
• Telemedicine, Telehealth, and Health Information Technology (July 2006) - This paper presents a framework for discussing the interdependency of both telemedicine and HIT and includes a discussion about ways to leverage the telemedicine community’s experience in areas of mutual interest with HIT initiatives.
• Network Neutrality: The Current Debate and Its Competing Perspectives (July 2006) - In light of the current publicity and active lobbying by broadband providers, e-commerce companies, Members of Congress, public interest groups and various celebrities around “net neutrality”, the American Telemedicine Association is providing this layman’s guide to the issue.
• ATA’s Federal Policy Recommendations for Home Telehealth and Remote Monitoring (June 2006) - This paper sets forth ATA’s recommendations for changing federal policies in ways that encourage the expanded adoption of home telehealth and remote monitoring technologies.
• Medicaid Handbook - Medical Assistance and Telehealth: An Evolving Partnership (June 2006) - This provides information about the varying levels of state Medicaid support, legislative and regulatory methods by which state Medicaid support may be achieved, and case studies from states that have realized Medicaid reimbursement for remote health services.
• The Telemedicine Response to Homeland Safety and Security : Developing a National Network for Rapid and Effective Response for Emergency Medical Care (May 2006)  - This white paper, developed by ATA on behalf of the Chair of the Federal Communications Commission, proposes a national initiative to link existing telemedical networks into a national medical response grid that can be used in response to national emergencies.