Becker's Healthcare October 8, 2018
More employer health plans are offering telemedicine coverage, and employees are increasingly enrolling in plans that cover the service, according to new data from the Kaiser Family Foundation.
In a corresponding brief to its 2018 Employer Health Benefit Survey, KFF analyzed medical claims from 2010 to 2016 that the foundation obtained from the Truven Health Analytics MarketScan Commercial Claims and Encounters Database, which contains claims information from large employers through 2016.
Here are six highlights from KFF’s brief:
1. Across all employers, 67 percent say telemedicine is offered under their health plan with the largest enrollment.
2. Of large employers offering health benefits, the share of firms that report their largest plan covers telemedicine has steadily...
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