Practices With High Telehealth Use Have Lower Rates Of Certain Low-Value Care Services

Primary care provider organizations that had high use of telehealth provided fewer -based low-value services for Medicare fee-for-service beneficiaries. Compared to practices with low telehealth use, the practices with high telehealth use had lower rates of some low-value cervical cancer screenings (at 2.9 fewer screenings per 1,000 beneficiaries) and lower rates of low-value thyroid testing (at 40 fewer tests per 1,000 beneficiaries). There was no association between practice-level telehealth use and rates of other low-value care services not delivered in the office.

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