Analysis reveals telehealth use reduces health care costs in rural Medicare beneficiaries during the pandemic, suggesting impactful savings.
While telehealth users realized higher total costs of care in 2019-2020, rural telehealth users realized greater declines in total costs than rural non-telehealth users and urban beneficiaries.
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