ArticleHealth affairs (Project Hope)2022
Medicare Beneficiaries In Disadvantaged Neighborhoods Increased Telemedicine Use During The COVID-19 Pandemic.
Article in Health affairs (Project Hope), 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 45 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
45 citing papers in PubMed.
- Clinical Validation of a Vaginal Cervical Cancer Screening Self-Collection Method for At-Home Use: A Nonrandomized Clinical Trial.JAMA network open · 2025Trial
- Rural-Urban Variability in Home and Community-Based Service Use Among Veterans.Journal of the American Geriatrics Society · 2026Article
- The Impact of Telehealth Use Experience on Recruitment of Underserved Populations Into a Telehealth-Delivered Mindfulness-Based Trial for Patients With Chronic Low Back Pain: Cross-Sectional Survey.JMIR mHealth and uHealth · 2026Article
- Comparing Trends in Telemedicine Use and Geographic Disparities in Utilization Among Patients With Cancer in the United States.JCO oncology practice · 2026Article
- Telemedicine Adoption, US Ambulatory Visits, and Total Medical Spending, 2019-2023.JAMA network open · 2026Article
- Bridging the Digital Divide with Digital Navigation in the California Safety Net: A Mixed-Methods Study.Journal of general internal medicine · 2026Article
- Factors Associated With Telemedicine Use by Cardiologists for Medicare Beneficiaries in 2022 to 2023: An Observational Study.Journal of the American Heart Association · 2026Observational
- Demographic differences in annual wellness visit completion after expanded medicare telehealth coverage.BMC health services research · 2026Article
- Changes in Healthcare Utilization Patterns and Outcomes for an Acute Cerebrovascular Events Medicare Cohort: 2018-2022.Neuroepidemiology · 2026Article
- From Expansion to Expiration: Federal Policy Waivers and Telehealth Utilization in US Primary Care (2016-2024).Advances in health information science and practice · 2026Article
- Telehealth services utilization among middle-aged and older informal caregivers: evidence from national-level data in the United States.Frontiers in public health · 2026Article
- On telemedicine and healthcare spending.International journal of circumpolar health · 2025Article
- Adjusting hospital reimbursements to the onset of a new disease: Lesson from Covid-19.Health policy OPEN · 2025Article
- Race-Specific Impact of Telehealth Advance Care Planning on Cost of Dementia: A Cost Prediction Study.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2025Article
- Adoption of Health Information Technologies by Area Socioeconomic Deprivation Among US Hospitals.JAMA health forum · 2025Article
- Factors impacting electronic patient-generated data use in safety-net systems: a qualitative study.Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA · 2025Article
- Ambulatory Care Sensitive Hospitalizations and Disparities Among Older Adults With Dementia Before and During the Pandemic.Journal of the American Geriatrics Society · 2025Observational
- An evaluation of telehealth services at New York City tuberculosis clinics throughout the COVID-19 pandemic.PLOS digital health · 2025Article
- Trends in mental health care and telehealth use across area deprivation: An analysis of electronic health records from 2016 to 2024.PNAS nexus · 2025Article
- Area deprivation levels of members of a fully digital diabetes prevention program compared to the US population.Frontiers in endocrinology · 2025Observational
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
6 authors.
Funding
Abstract
Anticipating a growing need for health care during the COVID-19 pandemic, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services expanded telemedicine coverage in the United States on March 6, 2020. In this study we used roughly thirty million Medicare fee-for-service claims to quantify outpatient telemedicine use before and after the Medicare telemedicine coverage waiver and to examine the association of telemedicine use with the Area Deprivation Index, a comprehensive measure of neighborhood socioeconomic disadvantage. Before the waiver, 0.42 percent of patients had at least one outpatient telemedicine visit, with no significant differences between people residing in the most versus the least disadvantaged neighborhoods. With the waiver, 9.97 percent of patients had at least one outpatient telemedicine visit, with the highest odds of utilization seen for people residing in the most disadvantaged neighborhoods. After adjustment, our data suggest that the coverage waiver increased access to telemedicine for all Medicare populations, including people residing in the most disadvantaged neighborhoods, although the odds of use were persistently lower with increasing age. Overall, these findings are encouraging, but they illuminate a need for targeted interventions to improve telemedicine access further.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.