Table 1.

Patient Demographics Across Cohorts

Patient DemographicsOfficeTelemedicineTotal Patients
12,8461,04813,891
Race
 White11,671 (90.90%)919 (87.90%)12,590 (90.60%)
 Black or African American475 (3.69%)62 (5.93%)537 (3.84%)
 American Indian, Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian  and Other Pacific Islander39 (0.30%)3 (0.28%)42 (0.30%)
 Asian72 (0.56%)7 (0.67%)79 (0.57%)
 total: unknown, declined, not reported, Othera788 (6.04%)57 (5.43%)701 (5.04%)
Ethnicity
 Not Hispanic OR Latino12,128 (94.4%)980 (93.70%)13,108 (93.80%)
 Hispanic OR Latino491 (3.82%)54 (5.16%)545 (3.89%)
 Other227 (1.76%)11 (1.05%)238 (1.70%)
Legal sex
 Male6,395 (49.80%)466 (44.60%)6,861 (49.10%)
 Female6,451 (50.20%)579 (55.40%)7,030 (50.20%)
Age
 0 to 1997 (0.76%)8 (0.76%)105 (0.75%)
 20-39 years656 (5.11%)105 (10.04%)761 (5.44%)
 40-59 years2,453 (19.10%)309 (29.50%)2,762 (19.75%)
 60-79 years6,555 (51.00%)474 (45.35%)7,029 (50.30%)
 80-110 years3,289 (25.60%)159 (15.20%)3,448 (24.70%)
 No Valueb41 (0.31%)1 (0.09%)42 (0.30%)
Risk score
 Low risk (<9)4,316 (33.50%)424 (40.50%)4,740 (33.90%)
 Med risk (9 to 16)4,863 (37.80%)299 (28.60%)5,162 (36.92%)
 High risk (>16)2,993 (23.30%)239 (22.90%)3,232 (23.11%)
 No value676 (5.26%)83 (7.94%)759 (5.42%)
Insurance type
 High Mark, Blue Cross, WellSpan Pop Health2,059 (16.00%)240 (22.97%)2,299 (16.44%)
 Medicare8,873 (69.10%)588 (56.20%)9,461 (67.70%)
 Medicaid731 (5.26%)92 (8.80%)823 (5.89%)
 Other commercial459 (3.57%)46 (4.40%)505 (3.61%)
  • a total: unknown, declined, not reported, Other refers to patients not reported or declined or not documented due to administrative errors.

  • b Likely represents administrative error in charting.

  • c SlicerDicer was only able to measure proportions of encounters associated with the financial payer class and self-pay was unable to be measured. These proportions should be interpreted as approximate given that patients may have switched payers within the study time. For Medicare and Medicaid, there may be redundancy of patients who have had both payer types. Overall interpretation of above proportions is comparable distributions across the cohorts.