{"id":7298,"date":"2023-03-03T10:00:58","date_gmt":"2023-03-03T10:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/?p=7298"},"modified":"2023-03-02T16:34:30","modified_gmt":"2023-03-02T16:34:30","slug":"quickstats-percentage-of-adults-aged-18-64-years-who-used-telemedicine-in-the-past-12-months-by-sex-and-health-insurance-coverage-national-health-interview-survey-united-states-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/2023\/03\/03\/7298\/","title":{"rendered":"QuickStats: Percentage of Adults Aged 18\u201364 Years Who Used Telemedicine in the Past 12 Months, by Sex and Health Insurance Coverage \u2014 National Health Interview Survey, United States 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"order-4\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/36\/2023\/03\/mm7209a5-F.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-7299\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/36\/2023\/03\/mm7209a5-F-300x180.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"180\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"text-right\">Overall, in 2021, 35.3% of adults aged 18\u201364 years had a telemedicine visit with a health care professional in the past 12 months.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-right\">The percentage was higher among women than men overall (41.7% versus 28.8%).<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-right\">Women were also more likely than were men to have had a telemedicine visit among those with private health insurance (44.4% versus 30.5%), Medicaid or other public coverage (42.4% versus 34.3%), and those who were uninsured (19.5% versus 9.8%).<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-right\">Adults with private health insurance (37.5%) or Medicaid or other public coverage (39.3%) were more likely to use telemedicine compared with uninsured adults (14.0%), and this pattern was seen for women and men.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"order-4 w-100\">\n<p><b>Source:<\/b>\u00a0National Center for Health Statistics, National Health Interview Survey, 2021.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/nhis.htm\">https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/nhis.htm<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Overall, in 2021, 35.3% of adults aged 18\u201364 years had a telemedicine visit with a health care professional in the past 12 months. The percentage was higher among women than men overall (41.7% versus 28.8%). Women were also more likely than were men to have had a telemedicine visit among those with private health insurance<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":277,"featured_media":7299,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59509,63673,53746],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7298"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/277"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7298"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7302,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7298\/revisions\/7302"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}