Skilled Nursing News April 19, 2024
Hospital systems that had high telemedicine usage during the Covid-19 pandemic also had higher skilled nursing facility spending, compared to health systems with lower telemedicine usage in that time period.
That’s according to research findings published April 17 in Health Affairs. Specifically, compared with health systems defined as having low telemedicine use, high-telemedicine health systems had an inflation-adjusted $75 differential increase in skilled nursing facility spending per person, which equated to a relative increase of 9.5%.
The researchers also found that inpatient hospital admissions were higher among the high-telemedicine health systems, and this is the simplest explanation for why SNF spending also was higher at these systems, researcher Ateev Mehrotra, M.D., told Skilled Nursing News. Mehrotra is a professor of...
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