The Explosive Growth of Telehealth Throughout the COVID-19 Pandemic and Beyond

Telehealth use in the United States has increased by over 6,000% since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. Medicare telehealth visits alone have increased by 63-fold, from 840,000 in 2019, to 52.7 million in 2020 alone, as discussed by a Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) report issued in December 2021 (https://bit.ly/3N2t6dJ).