Telehealth use has fluctuated throughout the pandemic, typically picking up amid waves of new COVID-19 variants.
As coronavirus diagnoses fell at the end of this summer, telehealth utilization overall remained fairly stable, rising 1.9% nationally and accounting for 5.4% of medical claims, compared to 5.3% in July.
Fair Health’s tracker uses data covering claims for patients on private insurance, including Medicare Advantage and excluding Medicare fee-for-service and Medicaid.
