Telehealth Guidance and Resources

Find the guidance and information you need to provide technology-enabled patient care.

Telemedicine Education

The following programs from ACP cover a range of topics:

• Getting Started:  Telemedicine: A Practical Guide for Incorporation into Your Practice: For those just getting started, this course covers the benefits of using Telemedicine as well as practical steps on how to incorporate it into your practice. Interactive modules, 2 CME credits and MOC points.
• Video Visits: Beyond Simple Cases: This recorded webinar teaches clinical skills and practical advice on adapting physical exams to remote visits.
• Bringing the Team to the Video Visit: Recorded webinar discussing best practices and practical solutions.
• Leveraging Telehealth for Chronic Disease Management: Recorded webinar covers using remote patient monitoring, video visits and other telehealth modalities.
• Teaching Telemedicine in Undergraduate and Graduate Medical Education: This recorded webinar discusses the rationale for telemedicine-specific training, and practical tools and strategies for teaching.
• Continuous Glucose Monitoring - Going Beyond A1C to Improve Type 2 Diabetes Management: Interactive module offering CME covering why and how to integrate CGM into practice.
• CGM for Improving Type 2 Diabetes Management in Primary Care: Webinar recording offering CME discussing patient selection and management, practical tips, and Q&A.
• Remote Patient Monitoring Technologies: This series of eight brief videos offers informational interviews with a sample of technology vendors to explain features, costs and benefits.
• Reducing Cognitive Burden in Primary Care with Artificial Intelligence (AI): This webinar demonstrates how a good AI-supported system can use patient data and history to present the clinician with the most relevant information to save review time. One AI solution from Navina provides an example of how use of AI can impact diagnosis, care, and value-based outcomes. (57 min)

Billing, Coding & Regulations

• Video Visits: Patient care strategies and current information on coverage and billing.
• Telephone Visits: Coverage and billing information for when video is not an option.
• Remote Patient Monitoring: New technology makes monitoring easier for both patients and physicians, and new billing options reimburse practices for their time and expenses. 

Advocacy

ACP has been successfully advocating for reimbursement and flexibility in the use of telehealth since the beginning of the pandemic. We are now addressing the need to continue many of these policies, including:

• Pay Parity for Audio-Only and Telehealth Services
• Geographical Site Restriction Waivers
• Telehealth Cost-Sharing Waivers
• Interstate Licensure Flexibility for Telehealth and Promotion of State-Level Action

Read ACP’s statement to Congress, or search for other telehealth-related advocacy