Association Between Primary Care Payment Model and Telemedicine Use for Medicare Advantage Enrollees During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Brian W Powers; Dana Drzayich Antol; Yongming Zhao; Gilbert S Haugh; Oraida Roman; William H Shrank; Niteesh K Choudhry

doi:10.1001/jamahealthforum.2021.1597

Association Between Primary Care Payment Model and Telemedicine Use for Medicare Advantage Enrollees During the COVID-19 Pandemic

JAMA Health Forum. 2021 Jul 16;2(7):e211597. doi: 10.1001/jamahealthforum.2021.1597. eCollection 2021 Jul.

Authors

Brian W Powers¹, Dana Drzayich Antol¹, Yongming Zhao¹, Gilbert S Haugh¹, Oraida Roman¹, William H Shrank¹, Niteesh K Choudhry²

Affiliations

¹ Humana Inc, Louisville, Kentucky.
² Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.

Abstract

This cohort study examines the association between the primary care payment model and telemedicine use for Medicare Advantage enrollees during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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COVID-19* / epidemiology
Cohort Studies
Humans
Medicare Part C*
Pandemics
Physicians*
Primary Health Care
Telemedicine*
United States / epidemiology