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Healthcare Finance News April 5, 2022
The number of Medicaid beneficiaries using the technology is on the upswing, with five states showing big increases during the pandemic.
The U.S. Government Accountability Office is asking the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to gauge the effect that an increase in telehealth utilization is having on the care quality experienced by Medicaid beneficiaries.
The GAO cited statistics showing usage continues to rise.
GAO culled data from five states – Arizona, California, Maine, Mississippi and Missouri – and found exponential increases in both the number and percentage of services delivered through telehealth, as well as the number of Medicaid beneficiaries receiving remote care.
For example, from March 2020 through February 2021, 32.5 million services were delivered via telehealth, vs....
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