Fair Health has officially announced the launch of its Monthly Telehealth Regional Tracker Trending Reports that bring forth a free set of infographics, showing national and regional six-month trends in telehealth.
According to certain reports, Telehealth Tracker Trending Reports happen to be based on the Monthly Telehealth Regional Tracker, which, since May 2020, has used FAIR Health data to track how telehealth is evolving from month to month.
More on the same would reveal how the first trending reports show national and regional trends in telehealth utilization as measured by telehealth’s percentage of medical claim lines. Furthermore, they cover top five telehealth diagnostic categories across each month from January to June 2024. In essence, this data represents the commercially insured population, excluding Medicare Fee-for-Service, Medicare Advantage and Medicaid.
Talk about key findings from the first of Telehealth Tracker Trending Reports, they begin by revealing that telehealth utilization increased from January to June 2024 nationally, and it did so in all regions except the Northeast, where it actually decreased. From a national standpoint, telehealth utilization rose from 4.78 percent in January to 4.89 percent in June.
“The results of the first edition of the Monthly Telehealth Regional Tracker Trending Reports shed light on telehealth utilization and diagnostic categories in the six months from January to June 2024. We hope that the trending reports will be useful to all healthcare stakeholders, including policy makers, payors, providers, patients and researchers,” said Robin Gelburd, President of Fair Health.
Next up, the reports informed us on how, from January to June 2024, mental health conditions ranked as the number one telehealth diagnostic category nationally and in all regions. They also increased as a percentage of claim lines nationally and in all regions over that time. Here, a concrete lowdown would reveal that mental health conditions, throughout the nation, rose from 66.29 percent of telehealth claim lines in January to 68.05 percent in June.
Moving into the dynamics observed across Midwest, they told us that substance use disorders ranked fourth among telehealth diagnostic categories from January to March, third in April and second in May before falling to fourth position again in June.
On the other hand, overweight and obesity rose in the rankings across the Northeast from January to June. You see, it started at fifth position in January and ended at second position in June.
Turning our attention towards South, it was markedly the only region to have hypertension in its top five telehealth diagnostic categories during all six months. As for the West, it had joint/soft tissue diseases and issues ranked at the second position across the top five telehealth diagnostic categories at all times during the given six-month period.
Founded in 2009, Fair Health’ s rise to prominence stems from being a national, independent nonprofit organization focused on bringing transparency to healthcare costs and health insurance information through data products, consumer resources and health systems research support. Making company’s case even stronger is the fact that it currently boasts nation’s largest collection of commercial healthcare claims data, including over 48 billion claim records with a growth rate of over 3 billion claim records a year. In case that wasn’t enough, Fair Health’s excellence can be understood once you take into account how it works with data representing experience of all individuals enrolled in traditional Medicare Parts A, B and D, something which accounts for a separate collection of over 48 billion claim records. On top of that, the company’s systems for processing and storing protected health information have also earned HITRUST CSF certification and achieved AICPA SOC 2 Type 2 compliance.
