The figures below (Figure B.1, Figure B.2 and Figure B.3) provide responses from countries to questions in the OECD Survey on Telemedicine and COVID‑19 that are mentioned in the main text of this report but omitted from the main text for readability.
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Annex B. Supplementary results from the OECD Survey on Telemedicine and COVID‑19, 2021‑22
Figure B.1. Changes to regulations and financing to promote use of telemedicine
Note: * Only applicable for General Practitioners and other Medical Officers practicing in general practice. Agreement with statements is shown for both before March 2020 (i.e. before the start of the pandemic) and after March 2020 (i.e. after the start of the pandemic). Finland did not respond to the first two questions. Austria and Slovenia did not respond to the third question.
Source: OECD Survey on Telemedicine and COVID‑19 (2022).
Figure B.2. Classification of telemedicine services for payment
Note: * there is no systematic approach to assessment and classification of telemedicine services for reimbursement and the stated answers approximate present practices in reimbursement of medical actions covering some kind of telemedicine services.
Source: OECD Survey on Telemedicine and COVID‑19 (2022).
Figure B.3. How prices for telemedicine services are set
Source: OECD Survey on Telemedicine and COVID‑19 (2022).