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Achieving Equity in Telehealth: “Centering at the Margins” in Access, Provision, and Reimbursement

Andrea Westby, Tanner Nissly, Rebecca Gieseker, Kaleigh Timmins and Kathryn Justesen
The Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine February 2021, 34 (Supplement) S29-S32; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3122/jabfm.2021.S1.200280
Andrea Westby
From North Memorial Family Medicine Residency/Broadway Family Medicine, Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, MN (AW, TN, KJ); PGY-2, North Memorial Family Medicine Residency/Broadway Family Medicine, Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, MN (RG, KT).
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Andrea Westby, Tanner Nissly, Rebecca Gieseker, Kaleigh Timmins, Kathryn Justesen
The Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine Feb 2021, 34 (Supplement) S29-S32; DOI: 10.3122/jabfm.2021.S1.200280

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