DENVER — Despite higher payments during 2020 at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, the use of teleretinal imaging decreased during the initial lockdown before returning to pre-pandemic levels by the end of 2020, according to a study.
At the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology meeting, Sophie C. Lee told Healio/OSN that the study explored how telehealth use shifted in retinal imaging over the course of 2020.
“We were looking at utilization and insurance coverage specifically,” she said.
Lee and colleagues used data from the OptumLabs Data Warehouse and