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Study finds Medicare and insurers reluctant to pay for telehealth
E-Health Trend Watch, July 14, 2006
Remote monitoring equipment is too expensive, too hard to use, and doesn't integrate well with current infrastructure, according to a recent study by Spyglass Consulting Group. Among organizations using remote patient monitoring, 71% used government grants to subsidize deployments, and most of those interviewed for the study said their organizations wouldn't recoup money spent to install remote patient monitoring.
Patients like remote monitoring, but they are also unwilling to pay the estimated $150 per month for it. The most obvious barrier to telehealth is Medicare and the reluctance of health insurance companies to pay for it.
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