Less Than 1.0% Of Medicare Part B Beneficiaries Used Telehealth Services Each Year

In 2014, 0.2% of Medicare Part B fee-for-service beneficiaries used telehealth services. About 66% of this use was for evaluation and management services, and 19% was for psychiatric services. Telehealth services are defined as remote clinical care by two-way videoconferencing.

These findings were reported in "TELEHEALTH: Use in Medicare and Medicaid" by the Government Accountability Office (GAO). The GAO presented the findings in a statement given as testimony before the Subcommittee on Agriculture, Energy, and Trade and Subcommittee on Health and Technology, Committee on Small Business, House of Representatives.

The data reported in the testimony was . . .