Healthcare Informatics: The use of telemedicine to treat patients at a Veterans Affairs hospital in Vermont helped the Department of Veterans Affairs save, on average, $18,500 a year in travel pay between 2005 and 2013, according to research published in the journal Telemedicine and e-Health.
The Veterans Affairs (VA) healthcare system provides beneficiary travel reimbursement (travel pay) to qualifying patients for traveling to appointments. Travel pay is a large expense for the VA and is projected to cost nearly $1 billion in 2015, according to the study.
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