Managed Care Digest Series^® Spotlight

Medicaid Telehealth Use Continues to Climb as COVID-19 Pandemic Subsides

From August 2021 to January 2022, telehealth utilization jumped yet again among Medicaid recipients, with 39.1 million more such services used during that time.

Similarly, use of remote patient monitoring services by Medicaid and CHIP populations skyrocketed since 2018, increasing more than 300% from March 2020 to December 2021 alone.

Click here to read the 2023 Health Care Digest ^™.

Data source: Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services © 2023

¹ Each data point reflects telehealth utilization beginning in March 2020 and ending in the month and year displayed versus a pre-pandemic comparator (the same period, two years prior). The dates indicate reporting points and, therefore, do not represent a timeline with evenly spaced events..

NOTE: CHIP is Children's Health Insurance Program.

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