Graph of outpatient health care visits The number of outpatient visits, which plummeted in the early days of the pandemic, have fully rebounded to pre-COVID-19 levels, according to a new study. However, considerable variation by patient age, geographic area, clinical specialty and insurance coverage remains.

Researchers at Harvard University, the Commonwealth Fund and Phreesia, a health care technology company, analyzed data on changes in visit volume for the more than 50,000 providers that are Phreesia clients for its report, "The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Outpatient Care."

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