Receipt of Out-of-State Telemedicine Visits Among Medicare Beneficiaries During the COVID-19 Pandemic

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Study examining out-of-state telemedicine utilization during the COVID-19 pandemic by Medicare beneficiaries from January to June 2021 based on Medicare fee-for-service claims. Presents patient characteristics, variation in out-of-state telemedicine by geography, and benefits of out-of-state telemedicine access for rural beneficiaries.

Ateev Mehrotra, Haiden A. Huskamp, Alok Nimgaonkar, et al.

JAMA Health Forum, 3(9), e223013

09/2022

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Medicare · Policy · Rural-urban differences · Statistics and data · Telehealth