of Medicare clinicians report offering telehealth
340,510 of 1,627,468 clinicians. Between the highest and lowest state the gap is 30.3 points.
Highest telehealth share, by state
Lowest
Specialty matters less than geography, which is the opposite of what you might expect: a psychiatrist and a cardiologist in the same state are more alike on this measure than two psychiatrists in different states.
| Specialty | Clinicians | Telehealth |
|---|---|---|
| Endocrinology | 7,165 | 66.9% |
| Medical Oncology | 4,343 | 64.3% |
| Rheumatology | 5,537 | 60.2% |
| Hematology/Oncology | 10,064 | 57.8% |
| Neurology | 18,583 | 52.2% |
| Psychiatry | 28,556 | 49% |
| Urology | 10,341 | 48.8% |
| Nephrology | 10,088 | 47% |
| Clinical Psychologist | 28,671 | 45.2% |
| Infectious Disease | 7,120 | 45.1% |
| Pulmonary Disease | 11,703 | 43.9% |
| Gastroenterology | 15,840 | 42.2% |
How this was built
The telehealth flag comes from the CMS Doctors and Clinicians file. It records what a clinician reported to Medicare, which is not the same as what they offer today — it is self-reported, updated irregularly, and says nothing about availability or capacity.
Only clinicians enrolled in Medicare appear at all, so this is not the whole workforce.
State is taken from the first practice location on file. A clinician practising across several states is counted once, in one of them.
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