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If telehealth is too easy to use, will patients overuse it and drive up costs?

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Todd Shryock,Logan Lutton

Is this a valid argument?

Some experts have indicated that making telehealth too easy to use would lead to an explosion in unnecessary costs as people overuse services because of the convenience factor. Is this a valid argument?

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