Who is Using Telehealth in Primary Care? Safety Net Clinics and Health Maintenance Organizations (HMOs)

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Table 1.

Distribution of Family Physicians' Primary Practice Location Affiliations or Designations by Telehealth Usage

Affiliations or Designations of Primary Practice Location	All Physicians	Telehealth Users^*	Non–Telehealth Users	P Value^{^†}
Any affiliation/designation	994 (65.4)	157 (73.8)	837 (64.3)	.045
Federal designation	291 (16.6)	68 (28.1)	223 (15.0)	.0000
Academic health center	157 (11.1)	21 (10.7)	136 (11.2)	.856
Health maintenance organization	155 (12.2)	31 (18.7)	124 (11.3)	.011
Accountable care organization	395 (27.2)	44 (22.1)	351 (27.9)	.113
Patient-centered medical home (n = 1557)	443 (29.6)	63 (30.9)	380 (29.5)	.709

Data are n (%) unless otherwise indicated. Selections are not mutually exclusive; thus the columns do not add up to 100%.
↵* There were 225 telehealth users.
↵† χ² Test of significance between telehealth users and nonusers.
Source: Robert Graham Center analysis of the 2014 American Academy of Family Physicians Telehealth Survey of Family Physicians.