Transitioning the IR Clinic to Telehealth: A Single-Center Experience during the COVID-19 Pandemic

摘要

Telehealth has not previously been widely implemented as a result of regulatory and reimbursement concerns: however. in the current national emergency of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has relaxed many of its rules. allowing increased adoption of telehcalth services. improving the safety and access of outpatient health care. A complete understanding of the regulatory requirements, technologic options, and billing processes of telehealth is required to initiate a successful clinic. A model is presented here based on a single institution's experience with implementing telehealth in the outpatient interventional radiology clinic.