Resources & Reports

FAIR Health recently released an issue brief looking at “The Evolution of Telehealth during the COVID-19 Pandemic” utilizing data from their Monthly Telehealth Regional Tracker. FAIR Health receives voluntarily provided claims data, housing the country’s largest collection of private payer healthcare claims, while also receiving Medicare data, which allows them the ability to produce valuable reports for various government and healthcare entities. For the issue brief, FAIR Health focused on private payer claims.

A recent article in Health Affairs, titled Interstate Telehealth Use by Medicare Beneficiaries, examined the data behind interstate telehealth use before and after COVID-19 licensure waivers. The authors analyzed trends in data from 2017-2020, finding that most out-of-state telehealth use was with established patients, and more patients were from rural areas. The article states that based on the research results, policymakers should consider how reinstating limitations on cross-state telehealth use may disproportionately impact access for certain patient populations.