Becker's Healthcare March 21, 2022
A March 15 HHS Office of the Inspector General report concluded telehealth was critical for providing services to Medicare beneficiaries during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic.
5 things to know:
1. More than 28 million of the 66 million Medicare beneficiaries, or 43 percent, used a telehealth service between March 2020 and February 2021. During the previous year, only 341,000 beneficiaries used telehealth.
2. Use of telehealth peaked in April 2020 and decreased through the late spring, summer and fall before briefly increasing in December 2020.
3. Despite a significant increase...
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