Geographic disparities in telemedicine mental health use by applying three way ANOVA on Medicaid claims population data

Table 2 Ordinary least square regressions of telemedicine use on patient characteristics 2013–2018

Telemedicine use	2013	2018
Urban	0.027†	-0.049†
Suburban	0.058†	-0.035†
Rural	Reference	Reference
Age	-0.001†	-0.001†
Women	-0.017†	-0.012†
Non-Hispanic White	-0.006	0.010†
Non-Hispanic Black	-0.007	-0.016†
Hispanic	-0.021†	0.017†
Medicaid FFS	-0.007	0.022†
Dual eligible	-0.041†	-0.024†
Mental Health Diagnosis	0.159†	0.158†
Elixhauser Comorbidity Score	0.001	0.003†

Notes: Coefficient estimates from ordinary least square patient-level regressions reported, where the dependent variable is a binary variable equal to one if patient used telemedicine services and zero otherwise. † indicates statistically significant coefficient at the 1% level

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