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Telehealth and Outpatient Utilization: Trends in Evaluation and Management Visits Among Medicare Fee-For-Service Beneficiaries, 2019-2024

medRxiv: Telehealth and Outpatient Utilization: Trends in Evaluation and Management Visits Among Medicare Fee-For-Service Beneficiaries, 2019-2024 Prior to the pandemic, telehealth accounted for just 0.1% of monthly E&M visits but surged to 41.0% in April 2020 before stabilizing between 5.7% and 7.0% in 2023-2024. The average monthly E&M visit rate per 1,000 FFS beneficiaries [...]

Alliance for Connected Care2025-03-11T11:27:32-04:00March 6th, 2025|

Association Between Telehealth Use and Downstream 30-Day Medicare Spending

medRxiv: Association Between Telehealth Use and Downstream 30-Day Medicare Spending The objective of this study was to investigate whether healthcare visits initiated by telehealth had higher or lower 30-day spending compared to in-person-initiated visits. The study compared the overall spending, rates of return visits, laboratory tests, and imaging procedures within 30 days for Medicare [...]

Alliance for Connected Care2025-03-11T11:29:46-04:00February 11th, 2025|

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC): Declines in Telemedicine Use Among Adults

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC): Declines in Telemedicine Use Among Adults This report examines changes in telemedicine use among U.S. adults between 2021 and 2022 by selected sociodemographic and geographic characteristics. Overall, the percentage of adults who used telemedicine in the past 12 months decreased from 37.0% in 2021 to 30.1% in [...]

pbrown2025-03-05T15:46:06-04:00June 20th, 2024|

FAIR Health: Nationally and in Every Region, Mental Health Conditions Remained the Top Telehealth Diagnostic Category

FAIR Health: Nationally and in Every Region, Mental Health Conditions Remained the Top Telehealth Diagnostic Category According to FAIR Health’s Monthly Telehealth Regional Tracker, medical claim lines associated with telehealth fell from 4.79 percent in February to 4.73 percent in March, a decrease of 1.3 percent. Nationally and in every region, mental health conditions [...]

pbrown2025-03-05T15:52:32-04:00June 17th, 2024|

Nature: Effectiveness of Telehealth Versus In-Person Care During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Nature: Effectiveness of Telehealth Versus In-Person Care During the COVID-19 Pandemic A review of clinical evidence shows that telehealth is comparable to in-person care across various outcomes and clinical areas. Researchers from the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health observed that the differences between telehealth and in-person [...]

pbrown2025-03-05T15:54:39-04:00June 15th, 2024|

American Epilepsy Society: Seizing the Digital Divide: How Telemedicine Connects the Dots in Epilepsy Care Equity

American Epilepsy Society: Seizing the Digital Divide: How Telemedicine Connects the Dots in Epilepsy Care Equity Access to epilepsy specialist care is not uniform in the USA, with prominent gaps in rural areas. Understanding the reasons for nonattendance at epilepsy appointments may help identify access hurdles faced by patients. This study found that telemedicine is [...]

pbrown2025-03-05T16:00:10-04:00June 14th, 2024|

Chiropractic & Manual Therapies: Telehealth and In-Person Diagnosis of Musculoskeletal Conditions

Chiropractic & Manual Therapies: Telehealth and In-Person Diagnosis of Musculoskeletal Conditions This study assessed the concurrent validity and inter-rater agreement of the diagnosis of musculoskeletal (MSK) conditions using synchronous telehealth compared to standard in-person clinical diagnosis. In cases when access to in-person care is constrained, the study implies that telehealth might be a feasible [...]

pbrown2025-03-05T15:59:36-04:00June 13th, 2024|

Journal of General Internal Medicine: Impact of a Remote Primary Care Telehealth Staffing Model on Primary Care Access in the Veterans Health Administration

Journal of General Internal Medicine: Impact of a Remote Primary Care Telehealth Staffing Model on Primary Care Access in the Veterans Health Administration The Veterans Health Administration (VHA) implemented the Clinical Resource Hub (CRH) program to fill staffing gaps in primary care (PC) clinics via telemedicine and maintain veterans’ health care access. This study [...]

pbrown2025-03-05T16:03:30-04:00June 12th, 2024|

Annals of Internal Medicine: Use of Telehealth Among Medical Visits in the United States: Results From the 2021 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey

Annals of Internal Medicine: Use of Telehealth Among Medical Visits in the United States: Results From the 2021 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey Researchers from the Agency for Healthcare and Quality (AHRQ) found that while only 9.6 percent of health care visits occurred via telehealth, 43.2 percent of those visits were consultations with psychiatrists. In [...]

pbrown2025-03-05T15:22:37-04:00June 4th, 2024|

JAMA Oncology: Assessing the Environmental and Downstream Human Health Impacts of Decentralizing Cancer Care

JAMA Oncology: Assessing the Environmental and Downstream Human Health Impacts of Decentralizing Cancer Care This study assessed potential reductions in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and downstream health harms associated with telemedicine and fully decentralized cancer care. In this cohort study including 123 890 patients seen over 1.6 million visit days, compared with an in-person–preferred care [...]

pbrown2025-03-05T15:32:32-04:00June 3rd, 2024|

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