Study shows how Medicare patients are using interstate telehealth visits

Urology Times July 7, 2022
Jeffrey Bendix

A new study shows that most out-of-state telehealth is used for continuity of care, not acquiring new patients.¹ The findings contradicts opponents of extending the pandemic-related loosening of interstate telehealth restrictions who argued that the policy would result in out-of-state doctors poaching patients from their current physicians.

The study compares interstate telehealth use among Medicare beneficiaries after March 2020, when all 50 states and the District of Columbia instituted temporary measures allowing clinicians to treat patients in other states via telehealth, with telehealth’s interstate use during the years 2017-19.

Using data from a national, random 20% sample of Medicare fee-for-service beneficiaries, the authors analyzed how rates of out-of-state telehealth changed from 2017 through 2020, the content of out-of-state telehealth visits,...

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