Trends and Disparities in Pandemic Telehealth Use among People with Disabilities
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Description
Examines the use of telehealth services by Medicare beneficiaries with disabilities by analyzing data from the Medicare Telehealth Trends Dashboard; the 2021 Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey (MCBS) and MCBS Winter 2021 Supplement; and the Census Bureau's Household Pulse Survey data from July 21, 2021, to August 8, 2022. Presents data on patterns of telehealth utilization by Medicare beneficiaries with disabilities by type of Medicare eligibility and number and type of disabilities, modes of telehealth used by the number and type of disabilities, and the availability of different modes of telehealth and access to video-enabled services. Exhibit 8 compares telehealth utilization trends among Medicare fee-for-service beneficiaries between 2019 and 2021 by Medicare eligibility and rural and urban status.
Author(s)
Madjid Karimi, Lok Wong Samson, Sara J. Couture, et al.
Date
05/2024
Type
Document
Organization
HHS Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation
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Access · Elderly population · Medicare · People with disabilities · Rural-urban differences · Statistics and data · Telehealth
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- HHS Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, view details