The Monthly Telehealth Regional Tracker uses Fair Health data to track how telehealth is evolving from month to month. In October, the tracker found the following utilization trends:
- National telehealth utilization declined 3.7 percent, from 5.4 percent of medical claim lines in September to 5.2 percent in October.
- The decline in telehealth utilization was larger than the national average in the South (6.8 percent), Midwest (4.9 percent) and West (4.1 percent).
- Telehealth utilization in the Northeast increased by 1.7 percent.
- COVID-19 was the top five telehealth diagnoses nationally in October 2022.
- Social worker was the number one telehealth specialty nationally.
