AMA telehealth quick guide
- Overview
- Practice implementation
- Policy, coding and payment
- Other helpful resources
For more information on AMA's COVID-19 coverage, visit the AMA’s COVID-19 resource center for physicians. These telehealth resources from the AMA, state and medical societies and other health organizations will help with integrating telehealth during COVID-19.
- For CPT coding information, visit the AMA Data File requests (CPT data file, etc.).
- Read how the AMA stands ready to work (PDF) with state legislators and regulators to advance telehealth policy reforms that promote patient access to quality care.
- Find CMS Telehealth Policy Changes after the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency.
- Connected Health Initiative put together a full list of COVID-19 PHE policy actions (PDF) that supported expedited adoption of telehealth
- The American Telemedicine Association has created a series of webinars discussing the impact COVID-19 has had on telemedicine.
- The National Governors Association is tracking state activities related to COVID-19.
- To help physicians and patients get started with telehealth services, HHS launched the telehealth website with resources and best practices for accessing care virtually.
- For physicians, there are tips for getting started, preparing patients for telehealth visits, billing and payment and legal considerations. AMA resources, including the telehealth quick guide, are featured.
- American Psychiatric Association provides a general resource page and toolkit on telepsychiatry and the end of the PHE.
- The American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry has a telepsychiatry toolkit.
- American Academy of Pediatrics has resources on telemedicine.
- American College of Physicians has resources and guidance for telemedicine.
- Read about the COVID-19 Healthcare Coalition Telehealth Impact Study.
