Telemedicine Adoption and Low-Value Care Use and Spending Among Fee-for-Service Medicare Beneficiaries.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Low-value care is a persistent problem with direct and cascading harms. Telemedicine is now commonly used and may reduce low-value testing by introducing barriers to completing tests at a given visit or expand opportunities for low-value testing by contributing to higher visit volumes.

Objective

To quantify the association between telemedicine adoption and low-value testing among fee-for-service Medicare beneficiaries.

Design, setting, and participants

In this cohort study using 100% fee-for-service Medicare claims data, US health systems were divided into quartiles based on 2020 telemedicine adoption. Beneficiary-level linear regression in difference-in-differences (DiD) analyses was used to compare beneficiaries who were continuously enrolled from 2019 th

SUBMITTER: Ganguli I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11851298 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature