KFF October 2, 2024
Alex Cottrill, Juliette Cubanski, Tricia Neuman

Use of telehealth, which allows patients to see health care providers without being in the same location, has grown rapidly in recent years, among both privately-insured patients and Medicare beneficiaries. Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, telehealth utilization in traditional Medicare was very low, but it rose dramatically in 2020 following temporary measures put in place at the start of the COVID-19 public health emergency that greatly expanded the scope of Medicare coverage of telehealth. Since early 2021 telehealth use has declined steadily, but it remains higher than pre-pandemic levels, with considerable variation by income level, race and ethnicity, and urban versus rural location, among other factors.

Congress has extended a number of pandemic-era flexibilities around Medicare coverage of telehealth beyond...

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