Growth of Telehealth Industry Puts Medicare Telehealth Reimbursements on Government Radar

The telehealth industry continues to grow rapidly, and regulators are beginning to take notice.

With the global telehealth market projected to more than quadruple in value over the next five years,¹ even slow-moving government payors have responded to the pressure to expand reimbursement options for telemedicine services. But reimbursement woes continue to top the list of concerns voiced by providers,² and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Inspector General (OIG) is keeping a watchful eye on reimbursement-related growing pains. On April 30, 2018, OIG released a report³ that identifies the impact of some of these growing pains on Medicare claims payments.⁴