After a pandemic boom, most patients and doctors now prefer in-person care, new research shows.
The pandemic opened the floodgates to telehealth. Now, many patients and doctors are curbing their enthusiasm for virtual care.
The findings coincide with data showing a dropoff in telehealth usage. Data released this week by FAIR Health, a nonprofit focused on healthcare transparency, shows nationwide telehealth utilization dropped 6.8% in February, following three consecutive months of growth. The data represent patients with private insurance, excluding original Medicare and Medicaid.
Consumer protections are also at stake, some experts say, for some people using large employers’ telehealth benefits. During the pandemic, employers could offer standalone telehealth benefits to employees ineligible for the employer’s health plan–such as part-time or seasonal workers. Now, employer groups and some lawmakers want to make the change permanent and treat the standalone telehealth benefits as exempt from most federal regulation that typically applies to employer health plans.
Investors’ pandemic love for digital health startups has shown signs of cooling. Startups in this niche raised $15.3 billion in 2022, down 48% from 2021, according to Rock Health, a venture investor and advisory firm. With $3.4 billion raised in the first quarter, 2023 is on track for the lowest level of annual funding since 2019, according to Rock Health.
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