In October 2022, after three months of relative stability, national telehealth utilization declined 3.7%, from 5.4% of medical claim lines in September, to 5.2% in October, according to FAIR Health’s Monthly Telehealth Regional Tracker.
The decline in telehealth utilization was larger than the national average in the South (6.8%), Midwest (4.9%) and West (4.1 %), while there was an increase in utilization of 1.7% in the Northeast, Healthcare Finance reports.
The data represents the privately insured population, including Medicare Advantage and excluding fee-for-service Medicare and Medicaid.
That same month, COVID-19 continued to fall among the top five telehealth diagnoses, nationally and in most regions, as it had in September. In October, nationally and in the Midwest COVID-19 fell from third to fifth place in the rankings. In the Northeast, it fell from second to third place, and in the South, it fell from fifth place out of the rankings. In the West, COVID-19 had already been out of the top five telehealth diagnoses since September. Read more.
