Audio-Only Telehealth Use Among Traditional Medicare Beneficiaries

Jiani Yu; Yasin Civelek; Lawrence P Casalino; Hye-Young Jung; Manyao Zhang; Reekarl Pierre; Dhruv Khullar

doi:10.1001/jamahealthforum.2024.0442

Audio-Only Telehealth Use Among Traditional Medicare Beneficiaries

JAMA Health Forum. 2024 May 3;5(5):e240442. doi: 10.1001/jamahealthforum.2024.0442.

Authors

Jiani Yu¹, Yasin Civelek¹, Lawrence P Casalino¹, Hye-Young Jung¹, Manyao Zhang¹, Reekarl Pierre¹, Dhruv Khullar^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ Division of Health Policy and Economics, Department of Population Health Sciences, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, New York.
² Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, New York.

No abstract available

Plain language summary

This cross-sectional study analyzes how use of audio-only telehealth services by Medicare beneficiaries changed from 2020 to 2022 and assesses which patients would be most affected by policy reforms.

MeSH terms

Aged
Aged, 80 and over
Female
Humans
Male
Medicare*
Telemedicine*
United States