Pandemic Surge in Telehealth Did Not Worsen Healthcare Disparity: Johns Hopkins researchers

Managed Healthcare Executive: Pandemic Surge in Telehealth Did Not Worsen Healthcare Disparity: Johns Hopkins researchers

Findings reported in this month’s Health Affairs show high use of telehealth in disadvantaged neighborhoods among beneficiaries after Medicare restrictions on telehealth were waived. Sanuja Bose and other researchers at Johns Hopkins found that after CMS waived telehealth restrictions in March 2020 because of the pandemic, people living in the most disadvantaged neighborhoods had highest odds of using telehealth services relative to those living in the least disadvantaged neighborhoods.