Dermatology house calls are growing post

Key takeaways:

Medicare data show a sharp increase in home-based dermatology visits during and after the pandemic.

Home visits could ease transportation burdens and caregiver strain.

Billing data show a marked increase in home-based medical care for dermatology-related procedures over the last decade, rising by more than 600% between 2019 and 2023.

That increase in home visits, while large, still comprises a “minuscule portion” of the approximately 17 million dermatologic procedural services delivered nationally but represents a growing trend that might be attributable, at least in part, to the pandemic, Timothy Klufas , BA, a clinical research fellow in the department of dermatology at the University of Connecticut, and colleagues wrote in the Journal of the American Academy