Greatest Changes Were a 5.7 Percent Increase in West, and 3.3 Percent Decrease in Northeast, according to FAIR Health’s Monthly Telehealth Regional Tracker
Telehealth Utilization in Nation as a Whole Relatively Stable
NEW YORK, Oct. 3, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Telehealth utilization, as measured by telehealth’s share of all medical claim lines, varied by US region from June to July 2022, according to FAIR Health’s Monthly Telehealth Regional Tracker.1 Telehealth utilization rose in three of the four US census regions—Midwest, South and West—with the greatest increase (5.7 percent) in the West, where telehealth utilization rose from 7.0 to 7.4 percent of medical claim lines; the South increased 4.9 percent and the Midwest 2.5 percent. In the Northeast, telehealth utilization fell 3.3 percent, from 6.0 percent of medical claim lines to 5.8 percent. Overall, national telehealth utilization increased 1.9 percent from June to July, after declining 3.7 percent from May to June, rising from 5.2 percent of medical claim lines in June to 5.3 percent in July. The data represent the privately insured population, including Medicare Advantage and excluding Medicare Fee-for-Service and Medicaid.
Specialties
In July 2022, social worker remained the top-ranking telehealth specialty in all regions and nationally, as it had since February 2022. But in the South, social worker fell by 8.7 percent of…
