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On telemedicine and healthcare spending

Year: 2025

Type: article

Abstract: The use of telemedicine has increased substantially worldwide prompting questions about its effect on health outcomes, utilisation rates, and healthcare costs. Using de-identified data from the Alaska Tribal Health System (ATHS) and Medicaid, we evaluate how spending patterns changed for a group of telemedicine users relative to a matched sample of non-users. We find that individuals tend to incur lower healthcare spending relative to the control group after first exposure to telemedicine. Our pre- ferred estimates show a 1.14% decrease for the Medicaid sample and a 0.7% decrease in the ATHS sample.

Source: International Journal of Circumpolar Health

DOI: 10.1080/22423982.2025.2489195

Authors: Mouhcine Guettabi, Rabecca I. Arnold, Elizabeth D. Ferucci

Institution: University of North Carolina Wilmington

Language: English

Topic: Telemedicine and Telehealth Implementation

Subfield: Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

Field: Medicine

Domain: Health Sciences

SDG: Good health and well-being

Open Access status: gold

Estimated APC paid: $640