Early adoption of telehealth/remote patient monitoring and hospital revenue changes during COVID-19.

ABSTRACT: IntroductionThe COVID-19 pandemic dramatically affected the financial performance of hospitals across the U.S. The prompt availability of telehealth options likely impacted both a hospital's healthcare options and opportunities for revenue in the short-term. The aim of this study was to explore the association between early adoption of telehealth and changes in revenue during the early phase of the pandemic, and to compare whether the results differed between rural and urban hospitals.MethodsWe performed first-difference regressions on a cross-sectional dataset of 1,742 U.S. hospitals. Our dependent variables were percent changes in four categories of revenue between 2019 and 2020: inpatient, outpatient, gross, and net. The adoption of telehealth and remote patient monitoring as of 2019 se

SUBMITTER: Rhoades CA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12569118 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature