Using Population-Based Outcome Measures to Assess the Impact of Telehealth Expansion on Medicare Beneficiaries' Access to Care and Quality of Care
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Description
Explores the feasibility of using
population-based measures to estimate the association between telehealth use, quality of care, and access to care when both telehealth and in-person visits are available to fee-for-service (FFS) Medicare beneficiaries. Compares data from the second half of 2019 to the second half of 2021 by the level of telehealth utilization in Hospital Service Areas (HSAs). Includes rural references throughout.
Author(s)
Morteza Saharkhiz, Tanvi Rao, Sara Parker Lue, et al.
Date
06/2023
Type
Document
Organizations
American Institutes for Research, Medicare Payment Advisory Commission
Tagged as
Access · Healthcare quality · Medicare · Policy · Reimbursement and payment models · Statistics and data · Telehealth