Physicians Practice June 18, 2021
Cindy Dyer

Good news on telehealth coding, but lifting of EFRD restrictions will present financial challenges.

Though it might seem counterintuitive in a year that saw the U.S. healthcare system buckle under the strain of a pandemic-driven surge in demand, overall healthcare costs were down in 2020. New data from the Peterson Center on Healthcare and Kaiser Family Foundation show healthcare costs declined roughly 2.7% last year as of December 2020, making it “the first time in recorded history,” that annual U.S. healthcare spending fell, the study authors write,.

It’s easy to understand why. Think about the appointments you or your loved ones canceled last spring and summer or the ones canceled by your providers. Then there was the care deferred—annual physicals,...

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