While most hospitals wait for insurers to cover telemedicine costs, UPMC in Pittsburgh is already successfully employing telemedicine tools that can save healthcare dollars, reports the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
"Reimbursement has so much to do with this," said Joseph Tracy, vice president for telehealth services for the Lehigh Valley Health Network in Bethlehem, which has perhaps the second most expansive telemedicine system in the state after UPMC.
"It won't expand faster unless we figure out the reimbursement."
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