Medicare Grows Telemedicine Use Over 6,000% During Pandemic

The Department of Health and Human Services found telemedicine-assisted Medicare visits increased 63-fold from 2019 to 2020 as a result of the flexibility introduced by the COVID-19 public health emergency, according to the new HHS … study released on Friday.

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services will use the report’s findings to inform future telemedicine policies for Medicare, CMS administrator Chiquita Brooks-LaSour said in a statement. news release…

Providers were eager to see how lawmakers and policymakers would regulate telehealth once PHE ended. Medicare payment consultants have proposed a temporary increase in flexibility to allow time to study the impact of telehealth.