Lexology September 26, 2022
Introduction
Since 2020, the COVID-19 public health emergency (PHE) has driven a surge in telehealth utilization due to necessity, consumer and provider willingness to use telehealth, and regulatory waivers facilitating greater access to and reimbursement for these services. According to a recent report from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of the Inspector General (OIG), “more than 28 million Medicare beneficiaries—about two in five—utilized telehealth services” during the first year of the pandemic, which was 88 times higher than the prior year.1 Although utilization rates have decreased in the past year, popularity of the service among patients has remained high despite a corresponding increase in in-person patient visits.
Our previous alert, “Life After Omicron,” highlighted telehealth as...
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