2022 MCBS Early PUF on Internet Access and Use Among Medicare Beneficiaries

Highlights

• In 2022, 89 percent of Medicare beneficiaries living in the community had access to the internet. White non-Hispanic beneficiaries had the highest percentage with internet access (92 percent) compared with Black non-Hispanic and Hispanic beneficiaries (79 percent and 73 percent, respectively).
• Among Medicare beneficiaries living in the community in 2022, 62 percent ever used the internet to look up health information, 47 percent recently participated in video or voice calls over the internet, and 43 percent used the internet to communicate with a health care provider.
• In 2022, 50 percent of Medicare beneficiaries living in the community used the internet to get information daily, and 8 percent did not use the internet at all.