Top 20 physician specialties with highest telemedicine insight scores

The sharp rise in telehealth utilization throughout the COVID-19 pandemic has shown that the technology can help patients reduce gaps in care and enable providers to improve their operational performance.

For companies offering telehealth and remote patient monitoring solutions, a provider’s level of engagement with telehealth technology can be a key component to segmenting the market. For healthcare software and IT companies more broadly, a provider’s telehealth usage – or lack thereof – could indicate a general appetite to adopt new technologies.

The future of telehealth is bright and holds great opportunities for patients, providers and care delivery organizations alike to expand adoption and improve experiences.

What components are used to determine a provider’s level of telehealth activity?

Clients who want to understand telehealth utilization can use ClaimsMx to see both diagnosis claims made during telehealth visits and the related procedure codes. Such data is used to size, segment and prioritize accounts.

To provide clients with an additional level of healthcare commercial intelligence, we’ve developed proprietary Telemedicine Insight Scores in PhysicianView.

Using a 5-star scale, a provider’s telemedicine capabilities are determined using the number of billed telehealth claims and the percentage of the total claims conducted via telehealth.

The Telemedicine Insight Score helps our clients gain a more granular understanding of a provider’s telehealth utilization so they can more accurately segment the market and target key provider prospects.

Below, we reviewed over 65,000 provider profiles with the highest Telemedicine Insight Scores (3, 4 or 5-stars) to identify the top primary specialties with the most providers utilizing telehealth.