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NEW YORK, Jan. 19, 2021 /PRNewswire/ In 2020, FAIR Health added several COVID-19 resources to its free, award-winning cost transparency website fairhealthconsumer.org, rendering the consumer tool even more useful in these challenging times. The resources include typical costs for COVID-19 testing codes, an article on dealing with COVID-19 costs, and total treatment costs for three different COVID-19 scenarios. Other highlights of 2020 can be found in the FAIR Health Consumer year-end statistics for 2020, which, like last year s statistics for 2019, shed light into what types of people are using the site and why.
fairhealthconsumer.org Usage Statistics 2020
Telehealth Claim Lines Increase 3,060 Percent Nationally When Comparing October 2019 to October 2020
Telehealth Claim Lines Rise by 10.6 Percent Nationally from September to October 2020
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NEW YORK, Jan. 6, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Telehealth claim lines
1 increased 3,060 percent nationally from October 2019 to October 2020, rising from 0.18 percent of medical claim lines in October 2019 to 5.61 percent in October 2020, according to new data from FAIR Health s Monthly Telehealth Regional Tracker. From month to month, coinciding with a surge in COVID-19 cases in October, the telehealth share of medical claim lines rose 10.6 percent nationally, from 5.07 percent in September 2020 to 5.61 percent in October 2020. The data represent the privately insured population, excluding Medicare and Med