Other key findings include:

While visits overall have returned to levels before the pandemic, they vary by several factors, including age group. For example, visits for younger children remain substantially below the pre-pandemic baseline.
The rebound in outpatient visits also has varied according to what type of insurance people have. Visits by Medicare patients, for instance, now exceed the number during the week before the pandemic began.
The extent of rebound in outpatient visits also varies according to provider organization size. For example, among adult primary-care providers, practices of one to five clinicians remain below baseline, while organizations of six or more are significantly above baseline.
Initially, as in-person visits dropped, telemedicine visits rose rapidly. Since the peak in mid-April, however, telemedicine use has slowly but steadily declined.
The percentage of all visits via telemedicine is slowly declining from its April peak. But it continues to be well above the pre-pandemic baseline of very few telemedicine visits.
The most recent data show striking variation among medical specialties in the percentage of visits that are conducted via telemedicine. Telemedicine use in many surgical speclalities is low, but in other specialties, especially behavioral health, its use remains robust.
Large provider organizations are using more telemedicine. For example, among adult primary-care providers, organizations of six or more clinicians use more telemedicine than practices of one to five.

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