Telehealth use among pediatric Alabama Medicaid enrollees, March-December 2020: Variations by race/ethnicity & place of residence.

Autor: Bisakha Sen, Md Jillur Rahim, Julie McDougal, Pradeep Sharma, Nianlan Yang, Anne Brisendine, Ye Liu, Van Nghiem, David Becker
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2023
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Zdroj: PLoS ONE, Vol 18, Iss 6, p e0287598 (2023)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1932-6203
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0287598&type=printable
Popis: During the early days and months of the COVID-19 pandemic, healthcare facilities experienced a slump in non-COVID-related visits, and there was an increasing interest in telehealth to deliver healthcare services for adult and pediatric patients. The study investigated telehealth use variation by race/ethnicity and place of residence for the pediatric enrollees of the Alabama Medicaid program. This retrospective observational study examined Alabama Medicaid claims data from March to December 2020 for enrollees less than 19 years. There were 637,792 pediatric enrollees in the Alabama Medicaid program during the study period, and 16.9% of them had used telehealth to meet healthcare needs. This study employed a multivariate Poisson mixed-effects model with robust error variance to obtain differences in telehealth utilization and found that Non-Hispanic Black children were 80% as likely, Hispanic children were 55% as likely, and Asian Children were 46% as likely to have used telehealth compared to Non-Hispanic White children. Pediatric enrollees in large rural areas and isolated areas were significantly less likely (IRR: 0.90 for both, p
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