Behavioral is the only segment of the health care sector where telehealth is a substitute for in-person care and it drove the majority of telehealth visits during 2021, reports Behavioral Health Business.
Those are two of the key takeaways from a new report on the place of telehealth with health care from Trilliant Health, a Brentwood, Tennessee-based predictive analytics company focused on health care.
Using economic parlance, the report claims that “telehealth is only a ‘substitute good’ for behavioral health.” A substitute good is economist parlance for something that is effectively the same in performance, the occasion of use and distribution. Read more.
