Telehealth Use Among Safety-Net Organizations in California During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Lori Uscher-Pines; Jessica Sousa; Maggie Jones; Christopher Whaley; Christopher Perrone; Colleen McCullough; Allison J Ober

doi:10.1001/jama.2021.0282

Telehealth Use Among Safety-Net Organizations in California During the COVID-19 Pandemic

JAMA. 2021 Mar 16;325(11):1106-1107. doi: 10.1001/jama.2021.0282.

Authors

Lori Uscher-Pines¹, Jessica Sousa¹, Maggie Jones², Christopher Whaley¹, Christopher Perrone³, Colleen McCullough¹, Allison J Ober¹

Affiliations

¹ RAND Corporation, Arlington, Virginia.
² Center for Community Health and Evaluation at Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute, Seattle.
³ California Health Care Foundation, Oakland.

Abstract

This study describes trends in use of in-person, telephone, and video primary care and behavioral health visits to California Federally Qualified Health Centers from 2019 to August 2020 before and during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

COVID-19*
California
Humans
Insurance Coverage
Insurance, Health, Reimbursement
Safety-net Providers / trends*
Telemedicine / economics
Telemedicine / statistics & numerical data
Telemedicine / trends*