Health Affairs: Telehealth Delivery By Physician And Practice Characteristics
Researchers from Cornell examined 2022 Medicare fee-for-service claims to understand how physician characteristics impacted telehealth use. Researchers found that female physicians, primary care physicians, psychiatrists, and physicians in nonrural practices delivered relatively higher proportions of visits via telehealth. Overall, 23 percent of psychiatrists delivered all or nearly all of their visits via telehealth compared with fewer than 1 percent of physicians in other specialties. Evidence suggests that behavioral health care delivered via telehealth is not inferior to in-person care; efforts to expand telehealth coverage for these services may therefore improve access and outcomes. See the Cornell Medicine press release here.