State Medicaid and private telemedicine coverage requirements and telemedicine use, 2013-2019.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To examine the association between state Medicaid and private telemedicine coverage requirements and telemedicine use. A secondary objective was to examine whether these policies were associated with health care access.

Data sources and study setting

We used nationally representative survey data from the 2013-2019 Association of American Medical Colleges Consumer Survey of Health Care Access. The sample included Medicaid-enrolled (4492) and privately insured (15,581) adults under age 65.

Study design

The study design was a quasi-experimental two-way-fixed-effects difference-in-differences analysis that took advantage of state-level changes in telemedicine coverage requirements during the study period. Separate analyses were conducted for the Medicaid and pri

SUBMITTER: Lipton BJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10480084 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature