Lexology March 21, 2022
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (OIG) has released an agency “data brief” lauding the benefits of telehealth for Medicare beneficiaries. The OIG looked at Medicare fee-for-service claims data and Medicare Advantage encounter data for two years (from the beginning of March 2019 to the end of February 2021) to determine the total number of services used via telehealth versus in-person. What they found was that these pandemic year results were dramatic.
More than 40% of Medicare beneficiaries – over 28 million patients – used telehealth to receive health care services during the first year of the pandemic. Medicare beneficiaries used 88 times more telehealth services during the first year of the pandemic than...
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