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Telehealth claims increased 2,938% in November, compared to the same month in 2019, according to Fair Health s latest monthly tracker, released Tuesday.
The report from Fair Health, a Midtown nonprofit promoting health care cost transparency, covers national and regional telehealth claims dating from January 2020.
National telehealth claims were only 0.2% of all claims in November 2019, but a year later they shot up nearly 3,000% to about 6% of claims.
The Northeast region, which includes Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and Vermont, had the lowest claims rate pre-pandemic and the highest claims rate of all regions in November. In November 2019 telehealth claims were only 0.08% in the region, but they increased over 8,000%, to 7.2%, a ye