Joseph Kvedar January 16, 2024
As we look back on the lockdown phase of the COVID-19 pandemic, we learned that telehealth is a legitimate, safe, high-quality mode of care delivery for a number of clinical applications. Before 2020, most telehealth interactions fit into the category known as virtual urgent care, representing 0.19% of all health insurance claims. But since 2021, the Fair Health tracker shows that telehealth has accounted for about 5% of all health insurance claims, with about 70% of those claims for behavioral health.
All this to say, new opportunities for virtual care continue to emerge, accounting for the stable rise in overall telehealth claims and resulting in many more clinicians providing needed healthcare services to patients outside of their geographic area....
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