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Mashup Score: 7
Telemedicine use remains substantially higher than it was before the COVID-19 pandemic, although it has fallen from pandemic highs. To inform the ongoing debate about whether to continue payment for telemedicine visits, we estimated the association of greater telemedicine use across health systems with utilization, spending, and quality. In 2020, patients receiving care at health systems in the highest quartile of telemedicine use had 2.5 telemedicine visits per person (26.8 percent of visits) compared with 0.7 telemedicine visits per person (9.5 percent of visits) in the lowest quartile of telemedicine use. In 2021–22, relative to those in the lowest quartile, patients of health systems in the highest quartile had an increase of 0.21 total outpatient visits (telemedicine and in-person) per patient per year (2.2 percent relative increase), a decrease of 14.4 annual non-COVID-19 emergency department visits per 1,000 patients per year (2.7 percent relative decrease), a $248 increase in p
Source: www.healthaffairs.orgCategories: General Medicine News, PayerTweet
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Mashup Score: 3On the Need for Diversity in Medical Illustrations - 2 day(s) ago
On The Dose podcast, medical student and illustrator Chidiebere Ibe discusses inclusive medical imagery, which is critical for health care equity.
Source: www.commonwealthfund.orgCategories: General Medicine News, PayerTweet
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Mashup Score: 7Advancing Racial Equity in U.S. Health Care - 3 day(s) ago
This report evaluates disparities in health and health care across racial and ethnic groups, both within states and between U.S. states.
Source: www.commonwealthfund.orgCategories: General Medicine News, PayerTweet
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Mashup Score: 2
One year later, what have been the effects of unwinding Medicaid’s continuous enrollment policy that started during the COVID-19 pandemic?
Source: www.commonwealthfund.orgCategories: General Medicine News, PayerTweet
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Mashup Score: 7Advancing Racial Equity in U.S. Health Care - 4 day(s) ago
This report evaluates disparities in health and health care across racial and ethnic groups, both within states and between U.S. states.
Source: www.commonwealthfund.orgCategories: General Medicine News, PayerTweet
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Mashup Score: 7
Telemedicine use remains substantially higher than it was before the COVID-19 pandemic, although it has fallen from pandemic highs. To inform the ongoing debate about whether to continue payment for telemedicine visits, we estimated the association of greater telemedicine use across health systems with utilization, spending, and quality. In 2020, patients receiving care at health systems in the highest quartile of telemedicine use had 2.5 telemedicine visits per person (26.8 percent of visits) compared with 0.7 telemedicine visits per person (9.5 percent of visits) in the lowest quartile of telemedicine use. In 2021–22, relative to those in the lowest quartile, patients of health systems in the highest quartile had an increase of 0.21 total outpatient visits (telemedicine and in-person) per patient per year (2.2 percent relative increase), a decrease of 14.4 annual non-COVID-19 emergency department visits per 1,000 patients per year (2.7 percent relative decrease), a $248 increase in p
Source: www.healthaffairs.orgCategories: General Medicine News, PayerTweet
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Mashup Score: 2
One year later, what have been the effects of unwinding Medicaid’s continuous enrollment policy that started during the COVID-19 pandemic?
Source: www.commonwealthfund.orgCategories: General Medicine News, PayerTweet
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Mashup Score: 7Advancing Racial Equity in U.S. Health Care - 5 day(s) ago
This report evaluates disparities in health and health care across racial and ethnic groups, both within states and between U.S. states.
Source: www.commonwealthfund.orgCategories: General Medicine News, PayerTweet
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Mashup Score: 2
One year later, what have been the effects of unwinding Medicaid’s continuous enrollment policy that started during the COVID-19 pandemic?
Source: www.commonwealthfund.orgCategories: General Medicine News, PayerTweet
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Mashup Score: 2On the Need to Reclaim Gynecology’s Troubled Legacy - 6 day(s) ago
On The Dose podcast, artist and health care activist Michelle Browder talks about changing Montgomery, Alabama’s painful legacy as the birthplace of gynecology.
Source: www.commonwealthfund.orgCategories: General Medicine News, PayerTweet
To help inform long-term policy, a new study seeks to increase understanding of how the growth in #telemedicine during the pandemic affected health care spending and the quality of care patients received. https://t.co/MWtmQP9NSu