Telemedicine and Outpatient Subspecialty Visits Among Pediatric Medicaid Beneficiaries.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Live interactive telemedicine is increasingly covered by state Medicaid programs, but whether telemedicine is improving equity in utilization of subspecialty care is not known. We examined patterns of telemedicine use for outpatient pediatric subspecialty care within the state Medicaid programs.

Methods

We identified children ≤17 years old in 2014 Medicaid Analysis eXtract data for 12 states. We identified telemedicine-using and telemedicine-nonusing medical and surgical subspecialists. Among children cared for by telemedicine-using subspecialists, we assessed child and subspecialist characteristics associated with any telemedicine visit using logistic regression with subspecialist-level random effects. Among children cared for by telemedicine-using and nonusing su

SUBMITTER: Ray KN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7194998 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature