HealthLeaders Media January 10, 2022
Physician-driven factors such as closed physician offices have played a major role in foregone medical care for Medicare beneficiaries during the pandemic, study finds.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
– More than 11% of Medicare beneficiaries reported forgone medical care because of COVID-19.
– Dental care was the most common care that was delayed or forgone (4.3% of survey respondents), followed by prevention (4.0%) and checkups (3.9%).
– Most Medicare beneficiaries forwent medical care due to physician-driven factors, with the percentage of beneficiaries who forwent medical care because of physician-driven factors dropping from 66.2% in the week of July 7, 2020, to 44.7% in the weeks of April 4 to April 25, 2021.
Forgone medical care for Medicare beneficiaries during the coronavirus pandemic...